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Kimball O. Pomeroy, PhD, HCLD
Scientific Director, IVY Fertility Network

“A Lifetime of Lessons: QA From the Bench to the Corporate Boardroom”

Dr. Kimball Pomeroy has spent his career shaping best practices in assisted reproductive technology. In this session, he will share a wealth of knowledge about Quality Assurance in the IVF laboratory, drawing on decades of experience from hands-on embryology to executive leadership. Attendees will gain practical insight into how quality frameworks evolve across the lifecycle of a laboratory, and how to successfully navigate key performance indicators (KPIs) in today’s paradigm of corporate governance. Dr. Pomeroy will offer actionable tips, proven strategies, and lessons learned to help laboratory leaders and embryologists alike ensure excellence, compliance, and accountability in an increasingly complex healthcare environment.

Charlene Alouf PhD, HCLD

Co-Founder The CoLABorative 

“Every Lab Director’s Worst Nightmare: The Endocrinology Laboratory”

Accurate and precise endocrine testing is the cornerstone of safe and effective patient management in assisted reproduction. Hormone results guide critical clinical decisions—from identifying ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), ectopic pregnancies, the presence of residual miscarriage tissue, to determining whether a cycle should be canceled due to high estrogen levels or luteal insufficiency.

In this session, Dr. Charlene Alouf explores how to ensure analytical excellence in endocrine testing. She covers best practices for establishing and verifying reference ranges, monitoring standard deviations and means, evaluating SDI, identifying positive or negative bias, and trouble shooting for when things go wrong. Attendees will learn troubleshooting strategies for instruments and assays that fail to perform reliably. Whether your controls are always in range—or never are— this talk provides practical, actionable insights for every lab director and technologist overseeing an endocrinology laboratory.

Dr. Charlene A. Alouf is a Reproductive Laboratory Director with more than 25 years of experience in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Throughout her career, Dr. Alouf has been dedicated to implementing state-of-the-art technologies and ensuring the highest quality of care for patients undergoing ART procedures. Her expertise extends to the field of fertility genomics, where she also serves as a Medical Science Liaison for a leading fertility genomics laboratory.

Eva Schenkman, PhD, HCLD

Founder of ARTLAB Training and Consulting Services

TBD

Downloadable Content Library

• Analytic Phase Quality at the Bench
• Biomedical Waste Management
• Blastocyst Formation Quality Assessment and Selection in ART
• Building a Culture of Excellence IVF Staff Competency and Compliance
• Centrioles Guardians of Cellular Inheritance and Fertility
• Cleavage Stage Embryo Assessment and Grading
• Cryopreservation of Human Embryos and Gametes Best Practices in Storage and Laboratory Safety
• Early Zygote Biology Oocyte Maturity Pronuclear Formation and Fertilization Evaluation
• FDA and State Regulatory Compliance for IVF and Tissue Banking
• Fertilization Failure After ICSI Molecular Dissection of Sperm Oocyte Activation Factors SOAFs
• Instrument Validation and Qualification in the IVF Laboratory
• Investigation of Proficiency Testing Results
• Laboratory Director Responsibilities
• Laboratory Document Control Managing Policies for Compliance and Quality
• Liquid Nitrogen Safety Guide
• Mastering Space Supplies and Storage Management in a Clinical Laboratory
• Meiosis The Elegant Division That Makes Life Possible
• Navigating HIPAA Compliance in Healthcare Protecting Patient Privacy
• Oocyte Maturation Preparing for Fertilization and Embryo Development
• Patient Satisfaction Data Security and HIPAA Compliance in the Laboratory
• Phlebotomy Overview and Clinical Applications
• Pre Analytic Phase Preventing Errors Before the Test Begins
• Proficiency Testing and Competency Assessment in IVF Laboratories
• Root Cause Analysis and Actions RCA
• Sperm Capacitation Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance
• Sperm Maturation A Journey of Precision and Evolutionary Elegance
• Sperm Motility Structure Bioenergetics and Clinical Applications
• Sperm Retrieval Procedures Extraction Aspiration and Capacitation
• Subpart M Personnel for Nonwaived Testing
• The Critical Role of Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
• The Molecular Ballet Oocyte Meiotic Arrest and Resumption
• The Pioneering Past and Future of Vitrification
• The Post Analytic Phase of Laboratory Testing
• Budget Bootcamp Essential Financial Management for Lab Leaders
• Understanding the Globally Harmonized System GHS for Chemical Safety
• Preventive Maintenance Air Quality and Deep Clean in the IVF Laboratory
• Emergency Planning for IVF Programs
• Cybersecurity Risks in the Era of Automated IVF Laboratories
• CLIA Compliance for IVF Laboratories
• CAP Inspection Readiness for IVF Laboratories
• Budget Bootcamp III Materials Management and Pricing
• Budget Bootcamp II Cost Analysis Revenue and Payers
• Troubleshooting Malfunction in the IVF Laboratory
• Aliquoting Good Practice Points
• Centrioles–Guardians of Cellular Inheritance and Fertility
• Cleavage-Stage Embryo Assessment and Grading
• Sperm Motility Structure Bioenergetics and Clinical Applications
• The Molecular Ballet: Oocyte Meiotic Arrest and Resumption
• The Pioneering Past and Future of Vitrification

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