Welcome to the Vasectomy and Reversal Centers of Florida!

Our Mission

To make vasectomy services so readily available, affordable, and personally acceptable that no pregnancies are caused by men who have reached a mature decision not to have any or any more children. This goal is achieved in part by also providing vasectomy reversals with success rates comparable to those of other experts, but at a cost which puts vasectomy reversal within the financial grasp of the average vasectomy patient, thereby making vasectomy itself more appealing.

Practice Profile

The Vasectomy & Reversal Centers of Florida (1986) is a descriptive name for VasWeb, P.A. (formerly Douglas G. Stein, MD, PA), incorporated in Florida in 1984. The name is intended to convey an interest in, and dedication to, quality male contraceptive services.

Douglas G. Stein, M.D. is Board Certified in Urology. Read more in his personal profile page. Dr. Stein now spends much of his time (1) training doctors to perform no-needle no-scalpel vasectomy with the most patient-friendly, most effective, and most efficient technique; (2) organizing missions to provide free vasectomies in developing countries challenged by rapid population growth; and (3) performing vasectomy reversals.

Alex E. Galante, M.D. is Board Eligible in Urology. He joined VasWeb in August 2023. Read more in his personal profile page.

Vivian Nelson, AA (Medical Arts), who was with Dr. Stein from 1984 until 2022, and Office Manager for most of that time, retired in 2022 after 38 years of service. She has been replaced by ...

Heather Freidin, CMA has a many-year experience in reproductive health that make her no less important to the organization than are our surgical skills, and we are well aware that a patient's first and last office contacts are usually with support personnel. Heather handles insurance and patient billing, payment processing, and ordering all medical and office supplies used by the practice, not to mention preparing all of the paperwork (pre-registrations, consents, and coded receipts) needed to be sure that the outfield schedule runs smoothly.

Sergio Velasquez has been with Dr. Stein since 2011. He is the Spanish voice of the practice, responsible for providing our large Spanish-speaking patient population with information about vasectomy and reversal and for scheduling their appointments at all locations served by this practice. Sergio also scrubs, packs, and sterilizes the 60-70 sets of no-scalpel vasectomy instruments used by Drs. Galante and Stein at all locations every week, and loads the "Goody Bags" provided to each vasectomy patient with semen sample mailers, instructions, and promotional information and trinkets. He maintains our reversal instruments and sets up the procedure room for reversals.At our main office in Lutz, Sergio greets patients on vasectomy days and makes sure that they leave fully informed about follow-up care.

Alison Shield received an MD degree in 2018, but stepped away from clinical medicine to marry and raise a family. Now living in Lutz, she is responsible for knowing all of the skills of Heather and Sergio so that she can fill in wherever needed, especially when they are off on vacation or emergently. So she also schedules and greets patients on busy clinical days, and refines our policies and procedures manual on administrative days.