Michael C. Edelstein, M.D, completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell University where he graduated with distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He was a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and twice received the Resident's Teaching Prize. He served a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, America's first IVF program.