Moneyball Medicine

Dr. Alan Copperman is director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Mount Sinai Health System. He's also a clinical professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; medical director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, one of the world's leading IVF centers; chief medical officer at Semaphore Genomics, a health intelligence company; and medical director at Progyny, a benefits management company.Copperman tells Harry that data first came into his practice in a major way at RMA, which needed to "learn about what the best way is to take care of patients to optimize their success rates. We fell back on that term that you use, 'MoneyBall Medicine,' because we want to have the best embryologists, the best egg-retrieving doctors, the best embryo-transferring doctors. We want to put a team on the field that optimizes the succes