Innovations in Reproductive Endocrinology: A Tribute to Bruce Carr, MD

Bruce R. Carr, MD

Bruce Carr, MD, has served as the Editor in Chief of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine since 2000. During this time, he successfully increased the quality and the impact factor of the journal. He contributed to numerous issues that reflected the cutting-edge developments in diverse areas of reproductive medicine. As the new Editors in Chief, we are proud to dedicate the current issue to his wonderful career. Dr. Carr is particularly proud of the fellows whom he trained in his Reproductive Endocrinology-Infertility Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas over the past 30 years. Thus, we asked some of his past trainees (Arici, Bukulmez, Bulun, McGee, Price) to contribute. We also asked several Dr. Carr's close colleagues and collaborators (Legro, Rainey, Simpson) to write review articles. These contributions summarize some of the most recent advances in reproductive endocrinology.

Dr. Carr attended the University of Michigan, College of Liberal Science and Arts, and graduated with a BS in 1967 and received his MD degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1971. He completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1975. Following a few years in the military, he completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology in 1980 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He joined the faculty in 1980 and became an Associate Professor with tenure in 1984 and full professor in 1988. Since 1989, he has held the Paul C. MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He was Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility from 1986 to 2005 and currently the Fellowship Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

As Director of the fellowship training program, Dr. Carr has trained 41 fellows since 1986. All 41 fellows have passed their written boards in Reproductive Endocrinology-Infertility. Many of these fellows have gone on to impressive academic positions. Dr. Carr has been very active in research, both basic science and clinical. Dr. Carr currently is a PI on one NIH grant and has conducted 90 clinical pharmaceutical trials since 1986. His current areas of research include: GnRH agonists and antagonists, androgen excess, uterine leiomyoma, infertility and the menopause, and contraception. Dr. Carr is the author of more than 675 scientific publications and abstracts, and is the editor of the Textbook of Reproductive Medicine and Essential Reproductive Medicine and section editor of Endotext.org. He has received several awards and prize papers. Dr. Carr received the Distinguished Researcher Award in 2009 from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He has served on the NIH Reproductive Endocrinology section and served as Chairman of the study section. He has been a Board Examiner with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1984 and a Reproductive Endocrinology subspecialty examiner since 1989, and was Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2005–2008. Dr. Carr served as President of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI) 2008–2009. Dr. Carr served on the Executive Board for ACOG 2008–2010, and the ASRM Executive Board 2008–2009.

It is our honor and privilege to dedicate this issue of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine to Dr. Carr's spectacularly productive career and contributions to reproductive endocrinology.