Then he worked as the director of the Reproductive Endocrinology division at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1996 to 2006.
[1] He also served as the Editor in chief for Fertility and Sterility from 1997 to 2011, and publish numerous articles that help shape the field of REI.
Currently he works as Director of the Program in Reproductive and Adult Endocrinology and Chief, Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health.
His great-uncle was a longtime Chair of the Department of Otorhinology at Temple University School of Medicine, who persuaded DeCherney's father to become a family practitioner.
Seeing his father working hard to help his patients kindled Alan's love for medicine from an early age.