Scott J. Whitten, M.D.

Dr. Whitten received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Nevada Reno in 1995. He subsequently obtained his Doctorate of Medicine at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and then proceeded to Phoenix, Arizona where he performed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center. During his residency training, he received every award he was eligible for, including recognition for outstanding teaching and clinical excellence. He was then accepted as faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he did his subspecialty fellowship training in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Again, he was recognized for excellence in resident and medical student education two out of his three years at UAB. During fellowship he completed numerous research projects in both male and female infertility which resulted in several publications and oral presentations describing his work. His major focus was on the process of meiosis and this work was presented at the prestigious Plennary Session of the SGI National Meeting in 2005 and published in the prestigious basic science journal, Developmental Biology.