MD, MA, FRCOG, FRCS(C), HCLD, FACOG, FACS
Botros Rizk is Medical Director, Elite IVF in Houston, Texas and former Professor and Head of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Medical and Scientific Director of USA In vitro fertilization and assisted reproduction at the University of South Alabama for 25 years from 1993 to 2019.
Dr. Rizk currently leads Elite IVF, Houston, Texas a premier assisted reproductive technology center in Texas.
Dr. Rizk is past President of the Middle East Fertility Society. He currently serves as distinguished Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Cairo University, Egypt and served as Distinguished adjunct Professor of Reproductive Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Rizk is distinguished Adjunct Scientific Director of IVF Michigan Rochester Hills.
Dr. Rizk is the scientific and Lab Director of the Columbus Center for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Rizk was visiting professor in the Cleveland Clinic reproductive medicine course.
Mentored by Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Edwards, recipient of the Nobel prize in Medicine for achieving the first successful In Vitro fertilization in the world, Dr. Rizk started his career in Reproductive Medicine in London and Cambridge in the era of the legends where most of the current scientific developments and medical protocols were invented.
He joined the prestigious University of Cambridge for three years from 1990 to 1993 as Clinical Lecturer and Senior Registrar.
Dr. Rizk is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist in England, as well as, the American Board of Bioanalysts in Embryology and Andrology.
Dr. Rizk’s clinical and research interests have focused on ovarian stimulation including the development of the long agonist protocol which became the standard for two decades of IVF.
He is internationally considered a leading authority on ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and made original contributions to the pathophysiology and prevention of the syndrome.
Dr. Rizk authored a book solely dedicated to ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome that is considered the standard reference for OHSS.
Dr. Rizk is an authority on endometriosis; its novel medical management and robotic surgery.
Dr. Rizk is the principal investigator for tens of clinical trials for the FDA over the last three decades.
Professor Rizk edited and authored twenty eight medical textbooks and more than four hundred manuscripts embracing different aspects of infertility and assisted reproduction, as well as, ultrasonography and robotic surgery.
Dr. Rizk is one of the early members of European Society for Human Reproduction and a founding member of Middle East Fertility Society.
