19th Annual CRB Symposium
May 14-16, 2015
Red Rock Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
Click a program title below to view a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation given during the 19th Annual CRB Symposium.
Tuesday- Wednesday, May 12 and 13, 2015
Workshop I, II: I Spy Embryos: Improving Embryology Practices With Time- Lapse Imaging
Time-Lapse by EmbryoScope: A Vision to Conceive
Niels Birger Ramsing, Ph.D., CTO, Vitrolife A/S
Time-Lapse in Clinical IVF - Primo Vision
Brett Glazar, MS, MEA Lab Manager, Vitrolife, Inc.
Eeva Test: The GPS of Time-Lapse
Shehua Shen, M.D., ELD/TS(ABB), Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs, Auxogyn, Inc.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Evidence and/or Common Sense Based Laboratory Design and QC: What Matters and What Doesn’t
Jason Swain, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), Fertility Lab Sciences, Lone Tree, Colorado
IVF Children - What Do We Really Know
Barry R. Behr, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/CC(ABB), Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
Knowing Where We Came From: History of Clinical IVF
Thomas "Rusty" Pool, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), Fertility Center of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Myths About Success Rates – Do They Truly Reflect Quality of Care?
Barry R. Behr, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/CC(ABB), Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California
Should Every Embryo be Screened or Frozen? What does the evidence say?
Richard T. Scott Jr., M.D., HCLD/ALD(ABB),Clinical and Scientific Director, Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Friday, May 15, 2015
Embryo Culture Revisited
Jason Swain, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), Fertility Lab Sciences, Lone Tree, Colorado
Here’s Looking at You, Kid: Time Lapse in the Clinical Embryology Laboratory
Thomas "Rusty" Pool, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), Fertility Center of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Is Three a Crowd? An update on Nuclear Transfer, Cloning and other exciting stories
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Theraphy, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
Protocol Drift
Kimball O. Pomeroy, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB), The World Egg Bank, Phoenix, Arizona
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Current State of the Art and Evidence in Andrology Testing
Ajay Nangia, M.D., MBBS, FACS, University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Genetic and Age-Related Contributions of the Male Gamete
Ajay Nangia, M.D., MBBS, FACS, University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri
IT for IVF
Brian A. Levine, M.D., M.S., FACOG, Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
How Far is too Far? The Medical, Embryological, Psychological and Legal Aspects of Sex Selection. Just Because We Can…
Melissa B. Brisman, Esq., Montvale, New Jersey
