ASRM Today Podcast

"So the question is, why do we need to dilute the submissions by sending some of them to another journal? But in reality over the past few years the acceptance rate at Fertility and Sterility has dropped so much that there's really lots and lots of very good science that has to go elsewhere." - Richard J. Paulson, M.D., M.S.

"So the stakes are very high when you store cryopreserved embryos, eggs, sperm, testicular tissue, ovarian tissue, but even higher stakes when you cryopreserve and store tissue from cancer patients." --Sangita Jindal, Ph.D.

"One of the biggest challenges that PGT (preimplantation genetic testing) has presented to the field of IVF is this phenomenon of mosaic results - these results that neither clearly normal nor clearly abnormal but somewhere in between." - Emily Mounts

The role of genetic counseling in reproductive medicine is complicated. There are misunderstandings about how genetic counseling works. In this episode, Jill Fischer, the Director of the Genetic Counseling program at Kean University discusses misconceptions about genetic counseling.

On this episode, we speak with Susan Crockin about surrogacy contracts. Susan Crockin, JD runs the Crockin Law & Policy Group and is also a Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

In this episode of ASRM Today, we are speaking with genetic counselor Aishwarya Arjunan about the updated American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) guidelines concerning cystic fibrosis screening.

In this special bonus episode, ASRM Today hosts Andrew who is a member of the transgender community and will be discussing the experience of undergoing fertility treatment to build a family.

In this episode of ASRM Today, Dr. Shaalini Ramanadhan discusses contraception. Dr. Ramanadhan is a Clinical Fellow in Family Planning at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon.

In this episode, Dr. Nicolas Plachta a recounts his personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On this episode of ASRM Today, Eve Feinberg discusses the Joint Statement issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), and the International Federation of Fertility Societies (IFFS) concerning the global COVID-19 pandemic.