Chapters Transcript Video Dr. Puneet Masson | Penn Medicine Physician Profile A physician profile on Dr. Puneet Masson of Penn Medicine. Related Links:Twitter @PennMDForumFor more information see Dr. Masson’s physician profile what drew me to medicine is the intersection between culture and health, reproductive medicine is deeply affected by not only the world that people live in, but their belief system, their values, their reproductive goals, their dreams, their resilience. My name is Planet Mason. I'm the director of male reproductive medicine and surgery and an attending urologist at Penn Medicine. I mainly see patients that are presenting with male factor infertility. That is my particular interest at penn, my niche in my passion and I love taking care of those types of patients. In addition to that, I helped men that are no longer interested in future fertility as well. And these are men that we have completed their families and water interested in permanent sterilization, also known as a vasectomy. Additionally, I may see a trans woman who is interested in elective removal of the testicles and for a lot of them, you know, this is monumental in terms of their transition and their quality of life. And we are incredibly honored to be part of this experience for them. I may also see a patient that was newly diagnosed with cancer and it's going to start chemotherapy and is interested in sperm banking prior to initiating cancer treatment. We call that fertility preservation. And at penn we have developed a comprehensive outpatient and inpatient fertility preservation program for all men that may be interested in preserving their fertility prior to starting some type of treatment that might compromise that. I'm a fellowship trained microsurgeon. So I specialize in micro testicular surgical sperm extraction, micro surgical vasectomy reversal and varicose elected me. Micro surgical testicular sperm extraction is meant for men that have isolated pockets of sperm in their testicles. And we use a microscope to find those pockets of sperm vasectomy reversal. You know, patients that may have had a vasectomy in the past that are interested in future fertility and varicoceles are large dilated veins in the scrotum and some people, they can warm up the testicles, creating an unfriendly environment for sperm to develop. So we surgically correct that one of my first patients at Penn was a male that had cancer, you know, in his adolescence that never got a chance to sperm bank. Prior to starting treatment, he came to pen, we did something called a micro surgical testicular sperm extraction where we were looking for isolated pockets of sperm directly in his testicle. We harvested that and with our embryology colleagues help them achieve a pregnancy with in vitro fertilization and intra cytoplasmic sperm injection. Nine months later they gave birth to a healthy baby boy. We're learning a lot about the genetics of male factor infertility and because of this marriage that we're having with our female fertility colleagues, we are continuing to advance the field in terms of techniques that the embryologist may use and their laboratory to really help patients have healthy Children of their own. I truly love this patient population. I love my job and I feel grateful that I can say that with conviction every day, No. Published April 26, 2021 Created by
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