Stanton Honig, MD

Dr. Honig is currently the Director of Men's Health and Professor of Urology at Yale University School of Medicine. He is also a Clinical Professor of Surgery/Urology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He graduated medical school with an M.D. with Distinction in Research from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed his urologic training at Boston University School of Medicine. He finished the prestigious fellowship in Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1993. He has a large urologic practice that subspecializes in the comprehensive and compassionate care of patients with Male Reproduction and Sexual Dysfunction. He works closely with reproductive endocrinologists to provide coordinated care for couples trying to achieve a pregnancy. He actively participates in clinical and basic science research that focuses on male reproduction, vasectomy, erectile dysfunction, testis cancer/?fertility link, peyronie’s disease, anabolic steroid use, hypogonadism and transsexual surgery. His urologic practice specializes in the medical and surgical treatment of the above disorders. He works closely with reproductive endocrinologists to provide coordinated care for couples trying to achieve a pregnancy. He has been a national American Urological Association Plenary Session lecturer on “The Economics of Male Infertility (2002)”, “Current Treatment of Varicoceles (2009)” and The New WHO Semen Analysis Guidelines (2011) and Peyronie’s disease (2013). He is the author of numerous papers and presentations in Journal of Urology, Fertility and Sterility, Urology etc. He was a member of the AFUD Reproductive Health Council, on the Editorial board of the American Journal for Urologic Review. He is currently on the Editorial Board of Renal and Urology News. He has given State of the Art Lectures at New England Section AUA, was chairman of Society for the Study of Male Reproduction National meetings. He was a “State of the Art” Lecturer at the Sexual Medicine Society Meeting of North America” on Current State of Male Hormonal Contraception”, a moderator of a session on “Genital Enhancement Surgery” at the 2009 American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) meeting, moderator of Sessions on Male Infertility Interactive sessions on “Oligospermia” at the 2010 ASRM meeting and a speaker/moderator on “Gender Reassignment Surgery” at the 2011 ASRM Meeting and a roundtable discussant on Public Awareness of Male Infertility in 2013. He is the past President of the Society for the Study of Male Reproduction (SSMR), a subsociety of the American Urological Society. He is an expert reviewer for Journal of Urology, Urology, Fertility and Sterility, International Journal of Impotence Research, Journal of Sexual Medicine, Journal of Andrology, Advances in Urology and the journal, Reproduction. He is currently on the AUA Vasectomy Guidelines Committee, CDC Male Infertility Working Group and the Male Reproductive Health Alliance, a working group for Male Reproductive Health, with the CDC, Men’s Health Network and American Fertility Association. He gave “State of the Art Lectures at the CDC in 2010 on Modifiable Risk Factors of Male Infertility. He has lectured internationally in Egypt and Turkey within the last 5 years. Since 2014, he was been a faculty member of the AUA course on Vasectomy guidelines. He was a panel participant in the International Consultation on Men’s Health and Infertility (ICUD-MHI) and was a roundtable leader at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine meeting discussing “Post Vasectomy Procreative Management in the Older Couple”.
For 2020-2021, He is the Chair of the Reproductive and Sexual Medicine Division of the Urology Care Foundation and President of the ASRM/Society of Male Reproductive and Urology .