Draft:Cappy Rothman

Cappy Miles Rothman was born in the Bronx in 1938. He spent his early childhood in the Bronx until the age of 10 when the family moved to Miami Beach. He frequently visited Havana Cuba from the age of 11 to 21 because of his father, Norman "Roughhouse" Rothman,^[2] who managed the Sans Souci Cabaret and Gambling Casino plus all the slot machines outside Havana as a member of the mafia.

His college education was at the University, where he studied architecture and graduated from the school of business administration. He earned his medical degree at the University of Miami School of Medicine. His internship was at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas then completed his general surgery residency at Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, followed by urological residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and at Loma Linda University.^[1]

When Rothman and Charles Sims established the California Cryobank in 1977, they haw a way to lessen the impact of sterilization by providing these men with an option to retain their ability to father children.^[3]

He founded the Center for Male Reproductive Medicine, and became a very prominent infertility doctor in Santa Monica, CA. In 1976 he founded the California Cryobank which became the world's largest sperm bank. In 2018, they had about 600 donors and 75,000 registered live births since 1977.^[4][5] He was the first doctor to extract sperm posthumously^[6][7] and continued to do so the vast majority of which did not lead to a birth. "It had never been done in humans before," Dr. Rothman tells The Post. "And the American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) was not supportive."^[8] In 1998 a woman successfully conceived by implantation of eggs that had been fertilized by her dead husbands sperm.^[9] "The first successful conception from using sperm stored from a dead man was not until 1999 — a child born to Gaby Vernoff four years after her husband died suddenly. Rothman extracted the sperm from Vernoff’s husband as he lay in a morgue." ^[10]

He also pioneered the use of microsurgery in urological procedures.^[1]

Rothman was on the medical staff at Century City Hospital, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and a clinical instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[11]

In December 2022, Rare Bird Books published the book "God of Sperm" written by Joe Donnelly and Rothman.^[12] This book is a biography of his life and medical achievements. ^[13]

He also contributed to the book "Infertility in the Male" a Cambridge University textbook. ^[14]

Rothman currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife (Beth). They have three sons and five grandchildren.^[2]