Mitchell Rosen, MD

About

Director-level credentials for an embryology laboratory are rare among physicians who also run a patient panel. Mitchell Rosen holds them: he completed the laboratory training required to qualify as a high complexity lab director and now directs the UCSF Center for Reproductive Health’s embryology laboratory. He also directs the UCSF Fertility Preservation Program, which helps cancer patients bank eggs or embryos so that aggressive chemotherapy or radiation does not close the door on a future family.

He co-directs the center’s IVF program with Dr. Marcelle Cedars — the clinical side and the lab side of the same cycles — and holds a professorship at UCSF.

Rosen earned his MD at Saint Louis University in 1998, trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston — where he was named best resident twice and won a best-resident-teacher award — and completed his reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship at UCSF Medical Center in 2003. He continues to teach UCSF medical students, residents and fellows.

Clinical Expertise

• Oncofertility: Urgent fertility preservation for patients about to start cancer treatment — egg and embryo freezing coordinated around oncology timelines
• Laboratory direction: Runs the UCSF embryology lab under high-complexity laboratory director qualification, covering the technical quality of every cycle
• Reproductive endocrinology: Hormonal evaluation and management for women with infertility
• IVF program co-direction: Shares leadership of the center’s IVF program, from stimulation protocols through embryo transfer

Why Choose Dr. Mitchell Rosen

He sees the cycle from both ends. Most patients meet a doctor who orders the lab work; Rosen also directs the lab itself — the embryology culture, freezing and quality systems behind his patients’ cycles.

The preservation program is his. Patients facing a cancer diagnosis and a compressed timeline are served by a program he runs, at a center equipped for urgent oncology fertility cases.

Award-winning in the classroom, not just the clinic. Twice named best resident and once best resident teacher, he now teaches the next generation of UCSF reproductive medicine physicians.

Professional Affiliations

Professor, UCSF. Director, UCSF Fertility Preservation Program. Director, UCSF embryology laboratory (high complexity laboratory director qualified). Co-director, UCSF Center for Reproductive Health IVF program. Fellowship-trained at UCSF Medical Center; residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Suitable For

• Patients with a new cancer diagnosis: Fertility preservation before chemotherapy or radiation — the core population of his program
• Women navigating infertility: Endocrine evaluation and IVF care where the prescribing physician controls the lab
• Anyone who wants protocol-level oversight: Cycles managed by the person who directs the embryology lab and co-directs the IVF program