Suheil J. Muasher, MD, Distinguished Service Award

CDC’s Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance and Research Team

The Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Surveillance and Research Team was established in the CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health as a result of the Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992. For over 30 years, this small and dedicated group managed the Congressionally mandated National ART Surveillance System and used strategic partnerships, creative analytic solutions, and effective health communications to improve clinical practice, advance knowledge of ART effectiveness and safety, reduce health disparities, and save healthcare costs. The CDC’s ART Team partnered with ASRM and SART to effectively promote single embryo transfer and reduce multiple births in the United States, leading to improved maternal and child health outcomes. In addition to publishing national ART reports, the ART Team collaborated with numerous reproductive health researchers, mentored students and fellows, and contributed to hundreds of scientific papers on various aspects of infertility and ART. With a strong background in public health and epidemiology, CDC’s ART Team promoted the best practices of ART surveillance around the world. In collaboration with global experts, they published the first comprehensive book on ART surveillance and using data to monitor treatment effectiveness and safety, improve quality of care, develop health policy, and provide accurate information to infertility patients worldwide.

The ART Team includes Sarah Mardovich, Yujia Zhang, Dmitry Kissin, Amy Jewett, Carol DeSantis, and Mithi Sunderam (not pictured).

 

Previous recipients of the Suheil J. Muasher, MD, Distinguished Service Award:

2025 CDC's Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance and Research Team
2024 James P. Toner, MD, PhD
2023 Lee Rubin Collins, JD
2022 The ASRM COVID-19 Task Force
2021 Andrea Braverman, PhD 
2020 Kevin Doody, MD
2019 Edward E. Wallach, MD
2018 Louis V. Depaolo, PhD and The Fertility And Infertility Branch of The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
2017 Barry S. Verkauf, MD, MBA
2016 G. David Adamson, MD
2015 Judy E. Stern, PhD
2014 Barbara L. Collura, MA
2013 Judith F. Daar, JD
2012 Eli Reshef, MD
2011 Alan H. DeCherney, MD
2010 David N. Curole, MD, John T. Queenan, MD
2009 Roger Kempers, MD, MS, Kamran Moghissi, MD
2008 Paul G. McDonough, MD, Miriam B. Rosenthal, MD
2007 John A. Robertson, JD, Duane Alexander, MD
2006 Jacob M. Mayer, Jr, PhD, David I. Hoffman, MD
2005 Lee Lee Doyle, PhD, Marguerite K. Shepard, MD
2004 Stuart S. Howards, MD
2003 Andrew E. Good, MD, Florence P. Haseltine, PhD, MD
2002 Richard D. Amelar, MD, Lawrence Dubin, MD
2001 George A. Hill, MD
2000 Ronald Linhardt, MD, Donna Vogel, MD, PhD