|
|
|
 |
 |
| Nursing
Staff |
Office
Staff |
All of our
staff, including medical, laboratory, nursing, financial, insurance,
and general office staff, share the same philosophy of quality
personalized patient care.
|
 |
Mick
Abaé, M.D. |
Dr. Abaé is a Board-Certified Reproductive
Endocrinologist who completed medical school at New York Medical
College, followed by residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology
at St. Vincent’s Hospital, NY, NY, and a three-year fellowship
in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Vermont.
After spending 2 years as an Assistant
Clinical Professor in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology
at the University of Miami School of Medicine, he left in 1993
to found the Center for Advanced Reproductive Endocrinology (CARE)
in Plantation, and establish the standard for personalized patient
care in the South Florida infertility community. In August 1998,
he founded the Laboratory for Implantation, Fertilization, &
Embryology (L.I.F.E.) in order to provide the highest quality
of andrology & embryology services to his patients.
Dr. Abaé is a member of the American
Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Florida Society
of Reproductive Endocrinologists. He has continued to maintain
an active research program in areas such as endometriosis, laparoscopic
surgery, and male factor infertility, and has been selected to
present the results of this work at the annual conferences of
the ASRM and the International Endometriosis Society, among others.
Dr. Abaé remains committed to providing his patients with the
latest developments in clinical and laboratory services, in a
caring environment. |
 |
Harold
F. Rodriguez, D.V.M., Ph.D., H.C.L.D., E.L.D. |
Dr. Rodriguez is a graduate of Louisiana
State University and Texas A&M University, where he received
his M.S. and Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology and Embryology.
He is board certified as a High Complexity Laboratory Director
(American Board of Bioanalysis), with specialties in Human Clinical
Andrology and Embryology.
As Director of the Assisted Reproduction
Laboratories, Dr. Rodriguez oversees and is directly involved
on a daily basis with the functioning of our Andrology and Embryology
Laboratories. He brings well over 12 years of hands on technical
experience and scientific knowledge in the assisted reproduction
laboratory after working exclusively with oocytes, sperm and
embryos of several species. He has been involved in various
research studies looking at the reduction of multiple pregnancy
rates after IVF, the development of human embryos to the blastocyst
stage in various culture systems, and methods of assessing sperm
quality.
Dr. Rodriguez was among the first embryologists
to acquire experience with the culture, transfer and cryopreservation
of Blastocyst stage embryos in the mid 90's; his skills and
expertise as an Embryologist / Andrologist have been a key factor
throughout a very successful career and have resulted in the
conception of numerous babies for many couples worldwide. His
expertise is on several areas, which include Intracytoplasmic
sperm injection: ICSI, Laser Assisted Selective Assisted Hatching
and Embryo Biopsy for Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis; in
addition, In Vitro Fertilization and the In Vitro Culture of
human oocytes and embryos to the blastocyst stage, the Cryopreservation
and thawing of gametes and embryos, and the replacement of embryos
back to the womb at the blastocyst and/or earlier developmental
stages.
Dr. Rodriguez is also a voluntary laboratory
inspector for the Reproductive Laboratory Accreditation Program
(RELAP) offered by the College of American Pathologists (CAP),
one of the major accreditation bodies for Assisted Reproduction
Laboratories in the United States. On several occasions he has
developed and presented the results of clinical trials at the
annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
(ASRM), an entity of which he is also an active member.
He is fluent in English and Spanish and is
also a member of the International Embryo Transfer Society,
and the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB). For inquiries
with regard to any laboratory aspects of infertility therapy
you can contact him at hrodriguez@care-life.com
|
 |
Paula
Hart, M.T., Reproductive Technologist |
Paula Hart is a licensed Medical Technologist with over 15 years
of hands on experience working in a clinical laboratory setting.
Paula is in charge of Andrology Testing and Quality Control. For
questions with regard to scheduling, or results of Andrology testing
you can contact her at paula@care-life.com |
| |
|
|
