Luis J. Rodriguez-Rigau, M.D., F.A.C.E.

Vice-President and Treasurer of TIRME and Clinical Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Rodriguez-Rigau completed his medical school education and internship at the Autonomous University Medical School in Barcelona, Spain in 1974. He received medical training in Nuremberg, Germany and Uppsala, Sweden before residency training in Barcelona, Spain. Following a fellowship in Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, he became a full-time faculty member at this institution, rising through the academic ranks to tenured Associate Professor in 1981. With Drs. Emil Steinberger and Keith D. Smith he founded TIRME in 1983. Dr. Rodriguez-Rigau is a member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the Endocrine Society, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the American Society of Andrology, the American Institute for Ultrasound in Medicine and the American Medical Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, and has been elected Honorary Member of the Chilean and Argentinean Fertility Societies and the Mexican Society of Andrology. He was the recipient of the 1990 Young Andrologist Award of the American Society of Andrology. He has served on numerous committees, including the Executive Council of the American Society of Andrology, the Board of Directors of the Turner’s Syndrome Society of the United States, the Faculty Senate of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Andrology and Endocrine Practice. Dr. Rodriguez-Rigau is author or co-author of over 200 publications, including journal articles, book chapters and abstracts, and has been invited to lecture at many national and international meetings, in the fields of Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology. His main areas of interest in medical practice and research are infertility (male and female) and ovarian dysfunction (pathophysiology and treatment).

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