Steve was known as a nerd in high school and had the nickname of “professor”. These were the waning last years of fallout from the Vietnam War… all types of smoke could be smelled in the hallways and corridors of NPHS! His teachers were all absolutely inspiring, especially in English and History and German.  He was on the track team as a sprinter. He also played violin in the NPHS orchestra. The gifted and advanced placement program at NPHS allowed him to enter Lehigh University with sophomore standing and graduated three years later with a double major in Biology and German. Both parents were in the sciences and their influences helped to secure a summer student position at the Baylor college of Medicine in Houston Texas in the Department of Cell Biology. It was a very exciting time as molecular biology was in its infancy. He spent two summers working in a laboratory involved with understanding reproductive hormone receptors and started his passion for the study of the reproductive system.

After graduation from Lehigh, he held a job at Smith Kline and French Laboratories as a research scientist in renal pharmacology.  He was also active in the North Penn Symphony Orchestra. Next, he entered Duke University and obtained a Ph.D. in Reproductive Biology/Pharmacology/Toxicology studying the mechanism of toxicity of organophosphate chemicals on the male reproductive system. After a postdoc at the NIEHS, he completed medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From there he went back to Duke to complete Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and then back to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed the subspecialty Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility. It is quite obvious that he was following the number one basketball teams around! He saw five national championships (between Duke ‘91, ‘92, UNC ’82, ‘93, and NC State ‘83) during his 14 years of doing “hard time” there.  In addition to being fluent in German and Hungarian, needless to say he became “fluent in basketball” as well!

In 1995, he joined Jay Schinfeld at Abington Reproductive Medicine and helped grow a  single office and 6 employees to its present state with seven office locations with five physicians and over 50 employees. There, he has been instrumental in offering the latest advances in assisted reproductive technologies. His clinic was the first to perform preimplantation genetic diagnosis on embryos to evaluate for the presence of single gene mutations to prevent the transmission of a disease and allow a healthy outcome. This can be done for over 200 different genetic diseases. T\His clinic has had over 5,000 live births from IVF alone. Dr. Somkuti has extensive experience and expertise in surgical and medical treatments of infertility, minimally invasive surgery. His research pursuits range from understanding endometriosis and its effects on implantation to exploring connections between  fertility and the environment, improving fertility preservation options in patients with cancer, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and understanding the effects of aging on fertility. He enjoys cycling, running, hiking, the beach, stamp and coin collecting, opera, music, fine wines, cooking, and traveling. Some of his best friends are still from his NPHS days.

Dr. Somkuti is proud of his two children: Livia a high school senior who is interested in a career in music and vocal arts and enjoys horseback riding, and son Michael, a junior, who is into computers, programming and his guitar.