March-April Reviewer of the Issue – Mahmood Morshedi

Mahmood Morshedi

April 2017

Mahmood Morshedi, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), CTBS, is 
a professor and director of Andrology and Endocrine 
units at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecol-
ogy at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, 
Virginia, USA.  
Dr. Morshedi earned his undergraduate degree in 
Medical Technology from the University of Tehran 
and his graduate degrees from San Francisco State 
University and Eastern Virginia Medical School.  Dr. 
Morshedi is an expert in the area of male infertility 
and has published extensively in peer-reviewed jour-
nals and is the author or co-author or 9 book chap-
ters. He has directed one of the few centers in the 
United States established to assist HIV serodiscord-
ant couples in whom the male partner is HIV+ with 
their efforts to have children.  Dr. Morshedi has been 
extensively involved in research in the area of male 
infertility.  He has also received a grant from the Na-

tional Institute of Health (NIH) for investigating the contraceptive/spermicidal effect of cellu-
lose acetate phthalate, a common compound used for the enteric coating of some medications. 
Dr. Morshedi is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American An-
drology Society and the American Association of Tissue Banks. He is the peer reviewer for 
various scientific journals including American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Andolo-
gia, Fertility and Sterility, Gynecological Endocrinology, International Journal of Fertility and 
Sterility, and Urology Journal.
It is with pleasure to hear that I have been selected as the best reviewer of the month for the 
Urology Journal.  Undoubtedly, the peer review process plays a major role in streamlining the 
publication of high quality scientific work.  A review of the recent high quality manuscripts 
published in Urology Journal, points to the vision of the Editorial Board in their review of the 
submitted works and for selecting studies worthy of publication. Congratulations!