Session 157: Smooth Operations
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Session 157: Smooth Operations
Tuesday July 8th, 3pm EST / 8pm BST/ 9pm CET
Moderators:
Dr. Alessandra Alteri, Shaun Reed and Ahmed El-Damen
Presenting:
Simon Lumsdon - Clinics that run like clockwork
A talk kindly sponsored by FertilAI
Shakil Kanji - The Cryostorage Pain Chain: A Data-Backed Case for Change
A talk kindly sponsored by Fertility Billing Solution
Q and A
Synopsis
Dr. Alessandra Alteri
Alessandra Alteri obtained her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology at Sapienza – University of Rome. She began her career as an embryologist in 2011 at FertiClinic-Villa Margherita in Rome and worked at the IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan from 2015 until March 2025. She is currently serving as an expert in Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) at the Italian Competent Authority — the National Transplant Center, National Institute of Health.
From 2021 to 2024, she was Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan. She is currently Adjunct Professor of Histology and Embryology at UniCamillus – Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences in Rome.
She is an ESHRE-certified Senior Embryologist. She serves as the Coordinator of the Special Interest Group on Safety and Quality in ART (SQART) of ESHRE and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Embryology, Reproduction, and Research (SIERR).
She has authored or co-authored approximately 60 scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters. She also acts as a reviewer for several leading journals in reproductive medicine and serves as a Sector Editor for Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology.
Her current research interests focus on quality and risk management in the IVF laboratory, with particular attention to patient and offspring safety and strategies for error prevention.
Shaun Reed
Shaun is the embryology lab manager at Utah Fertility Center where he has been for 11 years. He completed his master’s degree at EVMS in 2018. When not in the lab, he likes to dabble with making social media content around IVF, nature, and making jokes. He also started competing this year in college track meets running the 400m dash. The pain of that race and beating 1 or 2 college kids makes him feel ALIVE.
Simon Lumsdon
Shakil Kanji
Shakil Kanji is an ex-Google software engineer and the Founder & CEO of Fertility Billing Solution, a Canadian technology company focused on modernizing cryostorage billing, consent workflows, and patient communications for fertility clinics. After his time at Google, Shakil entered the fertility sector by partnering with his sister, Dr. Salina Kanji, a reproductive endocrinologist, to tackle operational challenges that impact both clinics and patients
