Administration
Location
The Middle East Fertility Clinic for Reproductive Medicine and Genetics (MEFC) is located at P.O. Box 962505, Amman, 11196 Jordan.
Office Hours
Our offices are open from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. Appointments can be made by sending email to drz@middleeastivf.com.
Our Staff
P. Zarmakoupis-Zavos, M.D.
Medical Director
Dr. Zarmakoupis-Zavos received her medical diploma from the University of Athens
Medical School, Athens, Greece. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and
Gynecology at Winthrop-University Hospital (an affiliate of the State University
of New York at Stony Brook) in Mineola, Long Island, New York in 1993. She
received accredited fellowship training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
at the University of South Florida at Tampa, which she completed in 1995. She
was the sole Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility graduate for the State
of Florida in 1995 and one of the 45 throughout the country.
Dr. Zarmakoupis-Zavos has authored and co-authored 50 articles in peer-reviewed
scientific journals and 40 abstracts in national and international conferences.
She has presented her research work in the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
She was awarded the ARETAEUS Prize for the best presentation of Original
Work by a Greek of the Diaspora in 1992 and a meritorious award for the content
and presentation on her work on “Inhibition of endometrial stromal cells
by interleukin 6" at
the University of South Florida in 1993.
Dr. Zarmakoupis-Zavos is a past member of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists, and present member of The American Society for Reproductive
Medicine, the American Society of Reproductive Endocrinologists and the American
Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. She was also a founding member of
the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Zarmakoupis-Zavos is a board certified OB/GYN and a board-eligible Reproductive
Endocrinologist and Infertility (REI) specialist.
Panos Michael Zavos, Ed.S., Ph.D
Laboratory Director
Dr. Panos Michael Zavos, Ed.S., Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Reproductive
Physiology-Andrology at the University of Kentucky, Honorary Professor
at the China Academy of Science, Founder, Director and Chief Andrologist of
the Andrology Institute of America, Co-founder, Scientific Director and
Chief Embryologist of the Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine and President
and CEO of ZDL, Inc., a private corporation that markets infertility products
and technologies, worldwide. He received his B.S. in Biology, his M.S.
in Biology-Physiology and Ed.S. from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas.
Dr. Zavos received his Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology in 1978 from the University
of Minnesota.
Dr. Zavos has a long career as a Reproductive Specialist and is the chief scientist
in the development of several new and innovative technologies in the animal
and human reproductive areas with worldwide implications. He has authored
or coauthored more than 400 peer-review publications, along with a number
of solicited reviews, book chapters and popular press releases. He has presented
more than 300 abstracts and other presentations at a large number of scientific
meetings all over the world. He served as an ad hoc reviewer for the NIH
and other scientific groups.
Dr. Zavos was awarded the first ever Honorary Professorship by the Chinese
Academy of Science to an American. Dr. Zavos has numerous scientific collaborations
nationally and internationally and his publications have appeared in ten languages. He
is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the American
Society of Andrology (ASA), the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology
(ESHRE), the Middle East Fertility Society ( MEFS), the Japanese Fertility
Society, the International Society of Cryobiology, Sigma XI, Gamma Sigma
Delta and a number of other Scientific and Professional Societies. Dr.
Zavos is a true pioneer and is recognized worldwide as a leading researcher and
authority in the areas of male reproductive physiology, gamete physiology, human
infertility and Andrology.

