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Marc Goldstein, M.D., F.A.C.S., is Professor of Reproductive Medicine and Professor of Urology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Surgeon-in-Chief, Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery; Executive Director, Men's Service Center of the Cornell Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Director of the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine and Microsurgery at the New York Weill Cornell University Medical Center. He is Senior Scientist with the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University.

Dr. Goldstein is the only male infertility specialist cited in the American Health Magazine special issue on The Best Doctors in America. He is listed in New York Magazine's June 2006 issue, Best Doctors in New York. He is listed in the books Best Doctors in America (2007), The Castle Connolly Guide America's Top Doctors (2007) and How to Find the Best Doctors, New York Metro Area (2006), as well as Who's Who in America (2007). He is a board certified urologic surgeon and member of a dozen national and international medical societies dealing with male infertility and reproduction. He is Past-President of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and recipient of the 1997 Master Teacher in Urology Award and the 2002 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater. He has been honored by RESOLVE and the American Infertility Association for his "Outstanding Dedication and Commitment to Family Building". He received the 2002 John Kingsley Lattimer Award in Urology from the Kidney and Urology Foundation of America.

Dr. Goldstein is internationally renowned for his pioneering work in vasectomy reversals and microsurgical repair of varicoceles and blockages. He has performed over 1,000 microsurgical vaso-vasostomies and vaso-epididymostomies. His technique of microsurgical vasectomy reversal, as published in a peer-reviewed journal, yields the highest reported sperm return and pregnancy rates. He developed a microsurgical technique of varicocelectomy in 1984 and has performed over 3000 cases with the lowest reported failure and complication rates. He was the first American surgeon to be trained in, and perform, the Chinese method of No-Scalpel Vasectomy.

Dr. Goldstein has authored or co-authored over 225 journal articles and book chapters. He is the author of Surgery of Male Infertility (1995), the first textbook on the subject, and editor of Atlas of the Urologic Clinics of North America: Surgery for Male Infertility, 1999 and Atlas of Clinical Urology: Infertility section, 1999. He is co-author of The Couple's Guide to Fertility (Broadway/Random House 2001, 3rd edition), Vasectomy Book and Reproductive Medicine Secrets (Hanley & Belfus, 2004). He is on the editorial boards of the medical journals Microsurgery and Journal of Andrology. He has also been featured in interviews on numerous major media outlets including NBC's The Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's Eyewitness News, Newsweek and The New York Times.

A summa cum laude graduate of the College of Medicine, State University of New York - Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Goldstein worked as a resident in general surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. After three years overseas in the U.S. Air Force, attaining the rank of Major and flying in F4 Phantom aircraft as a Flight Surgeon, Dr. Goldstein was trained in urology at Downstate Medical Center. He continued his post-graduate training in reproductive physiology at the Population Council, Center for Biomedical Research, located on the campus of Rockefeller University, and at the Rockefeller University Hospital.

Dr. Goldstein is a long distance runner and triathlete who races regularly and has completed 20 New York City Marathons.