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Our Team, Continued
M. Cristina Bastias, M.D.,HCLD (ABB), ELD (ABB)
Director, Andrology and Embryology Laboratories
Dr. Bastias has been certified by the American Board of Bioanalysts as High Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director and Embryology Laboratory Director. She graduated from Córdoba National University School of Medicine in Argentina, and completed her Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Laboratory training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where she served for eight years as an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and as director of the Vanderbilt In Vitro Fertilization Laboratory.
Prior to joining the Louisville Reproductive Center, she served as Andrology and ART Laboratory Director at the Center for Reproductive Health in Nashville, TN, for five years, and subsequently was appointed Director of Reproductive Endocrinology Laboratories at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, KY, for three years.
Her clinical experience and research in the field of Andrology and ART has lead to substantial advancements in the evaluation and treatment of male factor patients, improvement of in vitro culture conditions for human gametes and embryos, and enhancement of embryo cryopreservation techniques, thus helping hundreds of patients to conceive.
Kara King, RN, BSN
Kara King joined Fertility & Endocrine Associates in June 2005.
Her experience includes operating room nurse for four years. Kara will be the OR director for the Louisville Reproductive Center. She attended the University of Louisville School of Nursing and graduated with a Bachelors degree in 1999.
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