Zini

Biography

Dr. Armand Zini is Associate Professor of Urology at McGill University and Head of the Division of Urology at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal. Dr. Zini is the Director of the Andrology Fellowship program at McGill University and currently supervises a clinical fellow. Dr. Zini received his Medical degree and completed his urologic training at McGill University in Montreal. He then completed a fellowship in Male Infertility at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Centre and The Population Council in New York, working with Drs. Marc Goldstein and Peter Schlegel. Dr. Zini's main expertise is in the area of male infertility. His clinical research interests include varicoceles and the role of semen oxidants and antioxidants in male infertility. He has published extensively on the subject of varicocele and microsurgical varicocelectomy. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Zini has also focused his research activity on the study of human sperm chromatin and DNA integrity. He has conducted several studies evaluating the impact of sperm processing on DNA integrity and the role of antioxidants on sperm DNA damage. Recently, he has published several important studies on the influence of sperm DNA damage on reproductive outcomes. In 2005, he gave the John Collins lecture entitled "Sperm DNA damage and Male Infertility" at the annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. In 2006 he was invited to present on the "Tests of sperm DNA damage" at the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS) annual meeting and in 2008 was invited to present on the "Clinical importance of sperm DNA damage" at both the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS) and American Society of Andrology (ASA) annual meetings. Dr. Zini has recently presented on the "Role of antioxidants and sperm DNA damage" (Sperm DNA Symposium in Rome, Italy, March 2009) and has been invited to the upcoming European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) consensus workshop on sperm DNA testing (to be held in Sweden, May 2009). Dr. Zini is currently funded (by the Canadian Institute for Health Research) for studies on sperm physiology and the epigenetic effects of dietary vitamin supplementation.

Research Interest

physiology and the epigenetic