Session 93: More or Less
Tuesday, 19th April at 3pm EST, 8pm UK, 9pm CET
What time should you denude? When should you ICSI? When should you transfer a blastocyst and when should you wait?
Please join the webinar discussing practical advice about precise timing of IVF lab events. Participate with your questions in this very interactive session.
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Moderating:
Dr. Jason Swain and Dr. Rebecca Holmes with Dr. Chelsey Leisinger
Presenting:
“The Importance of Procedure Timing in the IVF Lab” Dr. Jason Swain
"Timing, Timing, Timing" Dr. Denny Sakkas
“Hyaluronic Acid and Embryo Transfer Procedures “ Hubert Joris
“Timing of Blastocyst Transfers” Dr. Alessandra Alteri
“Novel Approach to Developing Technician Benchmarks in the Contemporary Embryology Laboratory” Tricia Adams
DR. JASON SWAIN
HUBERT JORIS
Hubert started his career in the field of ART in 1989 in Brussels. Following a research project on assisted fertilization by subzonal insemination in the mouse, he took part in the development of a clinical program for assisted fertilization that soon resulted in the first pregnancies after ICSI. During the 15 years that he worked in IVF he was an author in >60 peer reviewed articles related to ICSI, embryology, embryo biopsy, PGT, cryopreservation and pregnancy outcome. He joined vitrolife in 2004 where he is now working with medium research. Other areas where his clinical experience is useful are product development, customer support as well as educational and training activities.
DR. ALESSANDRA ALTERI
Current areas of interest include quality and risk management in the IVF laboratory, with particular attention to patient and offspring safety and errors prevention strategies.
DR. TRICIA ADAMS
Tricia earned her Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Southeastern Louisiana University. As an undergraduate, she participated in transgenic research at the Louisiana State University Reproductive Biology Center. This research led to her acceptance into the LSU Graduate School program. She then completed her Master of Science in Animal Sciences with a focus in Reproductive Physiology and Biotechnology. Tricia has currently been accepted to the Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences PhD-Veterinary Clinical Sciences program at LSU and begins this summer.
DR. REBECCA HOLMES
Originally from England, Dr Holmes obtained her BSc at Brunel University and her D. Phil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford where she studied epigenetics. She completed her postdoctoral studies at Cornell University. After completing embryology training in the Boston area she went on to become Technical Director of IVF at Brigham and Women’s Hospital before helping establish the Boston CCRM laboratory and now directing multiple labs within the CCRM network. She has given regional, national and international invited lectures on various topics related to the IVF laboratory, contributed to numerous peer-reviewed articles and runs an embryology society meeting in the New England area.
DR. CHELSEY LEISINGER
For the past 10 years Dr. Leisinger has been working in human IVF and is currently a laboratory director at Ovation Fertility. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine where she assists in the education of graduate students and the operation of an ART lab for domestic animals.
DR. DENNY SAKKAS
Dr. Denny Sakkas received his undergraduate training at the University of Melbourne, Australia and received his Doctorate of Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Sakkas has been the Laboratory Director of IVF units in Switzerland and England and has aided numerous groups in establishing their own IVF units around the world. He has extensive experience in clinical IVF and reproductive research. He is internationally recognized, having organized conferences and workshops on reproduction related topics, and is frequently invited as a speaker at major conferences worldwide. He has published more than 200 manuscripts and chapters in the field of fertilization, early embryo development and male infertility. He serves on the Editorial Board of leading journals and has been extensively funded in his career, He leads a productive research team investigating many aspects of basic and translational reproductive biology.
Dr Sakkas is Chief Scientific Officer at Boston IVF and consults to a number of clinics and startup companies in the area of IVF. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Previous and current positions include; Chief Scientific Officer at Molecular Biometrics Inc.; Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine ; Director of Assisted Reproductive Treatment Laboratories of the Yale Fertility Center.