Biography
Dr. Machelle Seibel is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of the Complicated Menopause Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Menopause ― a journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Seibel was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty for almost 20 years where he served as the Director of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School and Director of the Faulkner Centre for Reproductive Medicine. He also served four years as Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Medicine.
Dr. Seibel has been a leader in women’s health for over two decades. He performed the first successful in vitro fertilization in Massachusetts (one of the first in the country), has conducted many published clinical trials, and testified before the FDA. He has written or edited 10 scholarly books and authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific articles. Dr. Seibel has been featured in People Magazine, Inside Edition, the Boston Globe and the New York Post and is regularly interviewed by major print, radio and broadcast media on a wide variety of women’s health issues. He is the recipient of both the Searle ― Donald F. Richardson Focus on Patient Education Award from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Consumer Education Award from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine for his groundbreaking work in patient education. Dr. Seibel is repeatedly voted by his peers into Woodward and White’s Best Doctors in America, and is a member of the American Cancer Society’s New England Division Medical Advisory Network. In 2008 the UTMB School of Medicine Alumni Association Board of Trustees named him a Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient.
In 2003, Dr. Seibel founded HealthRock®, a health edutainment company that teaches health through music and entertainment. He performs under the name Doc Rock™, offering chicken soup to audiences in the form of catchy songs with meaningful lyrics. In 2007 HealthRock® won an eHealthcare Leadership Award and in 2008 it won a Parents’ Choice Approved Award and two iParenting Media Awards, one of which was for a Lullaby CD that Dr. Seibel composed.
Dr. Seibel has written and performed songs for numerous medical associations, not-for-profit organizations, and corporations including the American Cancer Society, the Jimmy Fund, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the National Sleep Foundation, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, HealthCorps, Inverness Medical Innovations, Unilever, Noven Pharmaceuticals and the Music Therapy Department at the Berklee College of Music. HealthRock’s songs, animations and music videos have been performed on TV and radio nationwide. His songs and performances bring something to audiences that no other performer can offer ― the insight into medical issues that can only come from a quarter-century spent as one of the most highly regarded physicians in his field.
