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Fertility and Reproductive Health Institute (FRHI)
Andrology and Embryology Laboratories for Fertility Physicians of Northern California
FRHI is a completely modern facility specifically designed to cater to the needs of patients facing infertility. We offer a wide variety of tests and procedures for infertility workup and treatment.
Andrology Laboratory
- Competitively priced Andrology testing
- Licensed by CLIA and the state of California
- Supervised by a board certified High Complexity Laboratory Director (HCLD)
- Partner lab to FPNC – the results and evaluations you receive from our laboratory will provide you with accurate and dependable information to use in counseling your patients
- Extensive experience in the evaluation of male infertility and extremely low sperm counts
- Manual semen analysis performed by certified Clinical Laboratory Scientists specializing in Human Andrology
- Semen analysis by Kruger’s strict criteria (vs. WHO), which is predictive of sperm fertilization potential
- In-house review of semen analysis by a doctoral level HCLD, Board Certified in Andrology and Embryology
- Laboratory director is available for consultation for client physicians
Embryology Laboratory
The FRHI embryology laboratory offers patients a full range of reproductive laboratory services, including in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, laser assisted hatching, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and cryopreservation of embryos, sperm and eggs.
Awarded CAP/ASRM accreditation with ZERO deficiencies – the highest (and very rare) merit for IVF laboratories. Our February 2009 accreditation is the fourth consecutive inspection in which our laboratory has been awarded certification with this distinction.
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) / American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) accreditation inspection is an extremely comprehensive process of reviewing the embryology laboratory’s quality control and quality assurance systems, proficiency testing results, quality of patient care, safety practices and personnel competencies. It is conducted by doctoral level embryologists who are trained to perform these inspections. Inspectors use a checklist that is 110 pages long and cite laboratories for every item on this checklist that they find to be unsatisfactory.
Embryology Team
Our embryologists are fully trained and highly proficient professionals with many years of training and experience in human embryology.
- Directed and supervised by Marina Gvakharia, MD, PhD, HCLD
- Sue Lee –Technical Supervisor in Human Embryology and Andrology by the American Board of Bioanalysis
- Ayca Cubukcu – Board Certified Technical Supervisor in Human Embryology and Andrology by the American Board of Bioanalysis
- Lonyl Palao – BS in Biological Science
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