38: Dr. Peter Klatsky: Physician Social Entrepreneur Leading Global mHealth Change

Dr. Peter Klatsky is an Infertility Specialist, is board certified in both Obstetrics and Gyencology and Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility. Dr. Klatsky graduated from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he was inducted into to the alpha omega alpha honors society. He completed his residency training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and his Infertility fellowship at Brown University. He received an MPH from Columbia University.Dr. Klatsky’s scientific accomplishments include clinical research on infertility treatments, as well as cutting edge research in molecular genetics. He has given numerous invited presentations and published in national and international medical journals. In addition to his scientific and academic achievements, he remains passionate about making health and justice available to more people. In addition to caring for couples with infertility in New York, he spends much of his time working on public health programs for women in Africa and the developing world. Dr. Klatsky currently works at The Montefiore Medical Center, where he sees patients and is an Assistant Professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  In addition to caring for infertile couples in the United States, he is an active social entrepreneur in Global Reproductive Health.  His work in east Africa was recently recognized with grants from The World Bank and Vitol Foundation to develop and pilot an innovative application “Fuel For Life” that will provide emergency communication, transportation, and reimbursement service that connects patients and providers at rural health centers to referral hospitals by leveraging existing transportation and telecom assets.