FertiliPod: Reproductive Medicine and Fertility Podcast for Assisted Reproduction Professionals

What is it like to graduate from a reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship and finally become an attending? Dr. Scott Morin of Reproductive Medicine Associates of Northern California (RMA Northern California) tells us about his transition from being an REI fellow at the RMANJ fellowship program to providing IVF and fertility care and becoming the medical director of his own office!

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We had coffee with Dr. Hugh Taylor, chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services at Yale University School of Medicine and current president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)! Listen to why he chose reproductive medicine, his views for the future of diagnosing and treating endometriosis and infertility, and what its like to be the president. Podcast website: https://www.ivi-rmainnovation.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episode&utm_campaign=ep21

Dr. Daniel Kaser of RMA Northern California in San Francisco reviews LGBTQ+ fertility options and discusses some of the challenges that still need addressing in caring for this community. He also shares his personal journey to becoming a father and tackles important questions about fertility benefits and insurance issues affecting LGBTQ+ fertility care. Podcast website: https://www.ivi-rmainnovation.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episode&utm_campaign=ep20

Dr. George Patounakis joins us to discuss some of the challenges of study design in fertility research, as well as some of the most common pitfalls in statistical analyses found in scientific publications in the reproductive endocrinology and infertility field. We discuss adjusting for age, dependent and independent variables, multiple logistic regressions, and how to properly interpret p-values!

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Dr. Jeffrey Thorne discusses current coronavirus vaccines and their effect on fertility, and debunks the idea that mRNA vaccines, such as the Moderna vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine, can interact with Syncytin-1 and affect placentation.

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We had coffee with two legends of the embryology world! Dr. David Gardner and Dr. Denny Sakkas discuss their early days in Australia and their life's work on understanding early embryo development and how important it is for IVF outcomes: from the development of extended embryo culture to the future of embryology!

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Live Online Journal Club from January 20th, 2021. We discuss the impact that AI is having on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and on the field of assisted reproduction (ART) as a whole. Lorena Bori form IVI Valencia and Dr. Gerard Letterie from Seattle Reproductive Medicine present their papers on application of big data to embryology and using artificial neural networks for clinical decisions. Introduction by Dr. Antonio Pellicer and Dr. Kevin Loewke. Panelists: Dr. Marcos Meseguer, Dr. Thomas Molinaro, and Dr. Denny Sakkas. Moderators: Dr. Andres Reig and Dr. Emre Seli.

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Recently, the Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing". In this episode, Dr. Dagan Wells reviews CRISPR gene editing technology and discusses the ethical and biological challenges of human gene editing, as well as its very promising potential.

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Dr. Marcos Meseguer reviews timelapse technology and how its application has changed the embryology lab. Listen to Dr. Meseguer discuss Timelapse in IVF, artificial intelligence and neural networks, and the application of big data to assisted reproduction.

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Dr. Alan DeCherney discusses the current landscape of REI fellowship, and where reproductive endocrinology and infertility is headed as a field. Listen to how he became an REI, and hear him tell some personal stories!

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