Department of Medical Sciences and Maternal-Child and Adult Surgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Antonio La Marca is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Mother, Children and Adults of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.
His clinical activity covers all fields of reproductive medicine, gynecology and obstetrics and he has taken part in thousands of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgical procedures. He has taken part in many advisory boards and national and international special interest groups for the elaboration of clinical guidelines for the diagnostic work up of infertile couples as well as their treatment
Professor La Marca’s research interests include ovarian reserve and endocrinology, pharmacological manipulation of ovarian activity, including the prediction of ovarian response in IVF, the personalization of ovarian stimulation protocols, the physiological significance of anti-Müllerian hormone and antral follicle count (including their measurement and clinical utility), and conventional and alternative strategies for ovarian stimulation. He has published extensively in these fields, being recognized as author or co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles (of note he is the first Author in about 35% of the articles), and is currently principal investigator in several phase 3 and 4 trials and recipient of several competitively assigned national and international grants; his current h -index is 48, with more than 9,900 citations (source Scopus).
He is member of the Editorial Board of the journal Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Frontiers of Endocrinology and Editor-in-Chief of Minerva Obstetrics and Gynecology