Mark Sauer

Mark V. Sauer

Mark V. Sauer, MD is an American physician who specializes in reproductive medicine. He is a well-known clinician, researcher and medical educator best known for his innovative work in the development of egg and embryo donation, fertility care of HIV-seropositive patients, and reproductive bioethics. He currently is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Sauer was the Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City for over twenty-one years, where he was also the program and laboratory director of the Center for Women's Reproductive Care, and a tenured professor and vice-chairman in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. While at Columbia University he also served on the Medical Ethics Committee of New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center.

Sauer received an A.B. degree in biology from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1976. He received an M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine, Chicago in 1980. Dr. Sauer received a M.S. in Bioethics from Columbia University in 2017. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Hospital in 1984 and then obtained sub-specialty training in reproductive endocrinology at the University of California in Los Angeles, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, under the mentorship of John Buster, M.D. Sauer has been married since 1979 to Lynda Marie (Treppa) Sauer and has 4 children.

Sauer achieved the world's first donor egg pregnancies in older menopausal women while serving as an associate professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Sauer's other projects included the introduction of methotrexate for the nonsurgical treatment of ectopic pregnancies, and most recently the use of semen washing techniques to prevent the transmission of HIV in couples wishing to conceive when the wife is uninfected. He also developed a program for procuring eggs for stem cell therapy from paid donors.

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