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On ASRM Today we get the latest on the most recent ASRM COVID-19 Task Force Update #14 from task force member Dr. Alan Penzias.

To review the latest update visit https://www.asrm.org/globalassets/asrm/asrm-content/news-and-publications/covid-19/covidtaskforceupdate14.pdf 

For the CDC Update visit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html 

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In this episode, we speak with Dr. Carol Lange, Editor in Chief of Endocrinology, the flagship basic science journal of the Endocrine Society. Dr. Lange shares the history of endocrinology and discusses how the field has grown over time. She also talks about the journal's submission process and peer review process. In addition, Dr. Lange discusses the Endocrine Society's initiatives for National Endometriosis Awareness Month, including a symposium at their annual meeting, patient education resources, and a congressional briefing on the importance of understanding the roles of sex and gender in research. Listen in to learn more about this fascinating field and the work of the Endocrine Society. 

For more info on the Endocrine Society visit https://www.endocrine.org/

For info on the virtual ENDO meeting, March 20-23, 2021 visit https://www.endocrine.org/meetings-and-events/endo2021

For more about Endocinology the flagship journal of the Endocrine Society visit https://www.endocrine.org/journals/endocrinology

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On this episode we talk with Dr. Mark Trolice about the power of family, positivity, and Dr. Trolice's own journey with infertility that helped him in writing this book. 

For more information on this topic please go to https://www.asrm.org  Tell us your thoughts by emailing us at asrm@asrm.org 

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In this podcast episode, Dr. Eve Feinberg, an expert in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, discusses the ASRM COVID-19 task force update #13. As one of the original members of the task force, Dr. Feinberg gives insight into the latest recommendations for vaccinations during pregnancy. She also addresses the myths and anti-vaccine propaganda that is preventing some women from getting vaccinated. Tune in to hear Dr. Feinberg's expertise and stay up to date on the latest COVID-19 recommendations. 

To review the latest update go to http://www.asrm.org/globalassets/asrm/asrm-content/news-and-publications/covid-19/covidtaskforceupdate13.pdf

To view all of ASRM's resources on COVID-19, please visit https://www.asrm.org/covid-19/

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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  

In this podcast, we speak with Dr. Gloria Richard-Davis about diversity and inclusion in reproductive medicine. Dr. Richard-Davis is the executive director of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and a professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences. We discuss how Dr. Richard-Davis was drawn to reproductive medicine, the major changes she has seen in the field during her 25 years of experience, and how empathy has been a throughline in her work.  

For more information on this topic please go to https://www.asrm.org/about-us/initiatives/diversity-task-force/

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To hear a patient's view on this subject, please download the June 12, 2020 episode - Transgender Care: A Patient's View with Trystan Reese

To hear another patient's view on this subject, please download the June 26, 2020 episode - Transgender Care: A Patient's View Part II

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Highlights of IVIRMA's Research Presented at the 76th ASRM Scientific Congress and Expo. Join us as Dr. Brent Hanson, Dr. Marcos Meseguer, Dr. Nicolás Garrido, and Dr. Antonio Pellicer discuss their presentations and other interesting topics including non-invasive preimplantational genetic testing (PGT), assisted hatching, sperm DNA fragmentation and issues with sperm measures, and mitochondrial DNA content in the embryo.

Podcast website: https://www.ivi-rmainnovation.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episode&utm_campaign=ep7

"One of the biggest challenges that PGT (preimplantation genetic testing) has presented to the field of IVF is this phenomenon of mosaic results - these results that neither clearly normal nor clearly abnormal but somewhere in between." - Emily Mounts, MS, CGC

Mosaicism is very challenging topic and there are many unknowns that clinicians deal with regularly. ASRM Today speaks with Emily Mounts who is the Director of Genomic Services and a genetic counselor with ORM Fertility in Oregon, about the recent ASRM Practice Committee Opinion on "Clinical management of mosaic results from preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) of blastocysts".

Emily Mounts is a board-certified genetic counselor at ORM Fertility. She has been practicing in prenatal and reproductive genetics for over 20 years and is the Immediate Past Chair of the ASRM Genetic Counseling Professional Group. She is one of the primary authors of the forthcoming ASRM Committee Opinion publication, Clinical management of mosaic results from preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) of blastocysts.

This Practice Committee Opinion will be available on August 5, 2020. To view this and all ASRM's Practice Committee documents, visit ASRM.org

If you'd like to know more about the types of practice documents and the methodology of their creation, visit this page on ASRM.org

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Highlights of IVIRMA's Research Presented at the 76th ASRM Scientific Congress and Expo. Join us as Dr. Emre Seli, Dr. Emily Osman, Dr. Elena Labarta, and Dr. Juan García Velasco discuss their presentations and other interesting topics including preimplantational genetic testing (PGT), slush nitrogen, the effect of ovarian stimulation on embryo quality, and the relationship between obesity and miscarriage.

Podcast website: https://www.ivi-rmainnovation.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=episode&utm_campaign=ep6

To View this and all ASRM's guidelines, visit ASRM.org

If you'd like to know more about the types of practice documents and the methodology of their creation, visit this page on ASRM.org

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In this episode Dr. Anne Steiner sits down to talk about putting together the latest journal from Fertility and Sterility, F & S Reviews.

If you would like to subscribe and read F & S Reviews, please visit the website at https://www.fertsterreviews.org 

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This episode of ASRM Today is a special preview of Fertility & Sterility On Air, a new podcast from Fertility and Sterility. This in depth and engaging podcast will tackle new issues of F&S with an expert panel of hosts. Please enjoy this preview episode of Fertility & Sterility On Air and look to subscribe to them soon.

Read Fertility and Sterility medical journal at https://www.fertstert.org/

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To read the ASRM Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic statement as well as the current update, visit https://www.asrm.org/Patient-Mgmt-COVID-19

To view all of ASRM's COVID-19 resources, please visit https://www.asrm.org/covid-19/

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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
--Robert A. Heinlein

On today’s episode of ASRM Today, we have a lively talk with the Editor-in-Chief of the new journal F&S Science, Dr. William Catherino. 

Dr. Catherino is a Professor with Tenure and Chair of the Research Department for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Associate Program Director for the Combined Federal Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the National Institutes of Health. He is a Board Member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

Visit F&S Science at https://www.fertstertscience.org/

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"PCOS is actually the most common endocrine disorder among reproductive age women. In 2010, according to the WHO it estimated 116 million women worldwide have PCOS." - Jennifer Knudtson, M.D.

It has been 30 years since the National Institutes of Health issued criteria on polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS and we talk about the most recent updated guidelines today with Dr. Jennifer Knudtson, M.D.

Dr. Jennifer Knudtson is an Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at University of Texas Health, San Antonio. She is a CREST scholar and a member of the ASRM Patient Education Committee, representing the Society for the Study of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (SREI).

ASRM Practice Committee documents mentioned in this episode:

• Recommendations from the international evidence-based guideline for the assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome (2018)
  
  
• Role of metformin for ovulation induction in infertile patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a guideline (2017)
  
  
• Use of exogenous gonadotropins for ovulation induction in anovulatory women: a committee opinion (2020) 

All ASRM Practice Committee documents can be viewed at ASRM.org

If you'd like to learn more about the types of practice documents and the methodology of their creation, visit this page on ASRM.org

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"It does seem to hold true that ICSI is beneficial when you fertilize eggs that have been previously cryopreserved because there are some changes that occur in the zona pellucida and the structure of the egg itself." - Denis Vaughan, M.D.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI is a micromanipulation procedure in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg to attempt fertilization, used with male infertility or couples with prior IVF failure. There is a new updated document from ASRM on ICSI for non-male factor and we talk about it today on the podcast.

View the document: Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for non–male factor indications: a committee opinion

All ASRM Practice Committee documents can be viewed at ASRM.org

If you'd like to know more about the types of practice documents and the methodology of their creation, visit this page on ASRM.org

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"We know now that this is not going to be a short-term event but something that's going to last for a while. So we obviously want to base our decisions on the best quality data that comes out and there are new studies literally every day being published."
- Jodie Dionne-Odom, M.D.

COVID-19 cases continue to surge. ASRM has issued a new update of the Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic statement and ASRM Today discusses it today with Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom a member of the ASRM COVID-19 Task Force.

Jodie Dionne-Odom, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Division of Infectious Diseases, Chief of Women's Health at the 1917 HIV Clinic, and the Associate Director of Global Health for the Center for Women's Reproductive Health. She is a physician-scientist with expertise in HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and perinatal hepatitis B infection.

To read the ASRM Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic statement as well as the current update, visit https://www.asrm.org/Patient-Mgmt-COVID-19

To view all of ASRM's COVID-19 resources, please visit https://www.asrm.org/covid-19/

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"So the question is, why do we need to dilute the submissions by sending some of them to another journal? But in reality over the past few years the acceptance rate at Fertility and Sterility has dropped so much that there's really lots and lots of very good science that has to go elsewhere."
- Richard J. Paulson, M.D., M.S.

It has been seventy years since the publication of the first issue of the medical journal Fertility and Sterility and the publishing landscape continues to evolve towards more open access journals. Our guest on the show today is Dr. Rick Paulson, and we sat down to talk about the new open access journal F&S Reports.

Visit F&S Reports at https://www.fertstertreports.org/

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"So the stakes are very high when you store cryopreserved embryos, eggs, sperm, testicular tissue, ovarian tissue, but even higher stakes when you cryopreserve and store tissue from cancer patients."
--Sangita Jindal, Ph.D.

In 2018, there were a number of notable failures of cryostorage which caused concern for patients and program safety for IVF in the United States. ASRM Today invited Dr. Sangita Jindal to speak about the ASRM Practice Committee Opinion titled, "Cryostorage of reproductive tissues in the IVF laboratory".

Dr. Sangita Jindal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ob/Gyn and Women’s Health, and Laboratory Director of Montefiore’s Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Health. Dr. Jindal received her Ph.D in reproductive physiology at the University of Toronto. In addition to her clinical expertise in all aspects of in vitro fertilization, andrology and infertility-related chemistry, Dr. Jindal supervises translational research on alterations in gene expression associated with ovarian aging in women.

This Practice Committee Opinion will be available on August 5, 2020. To view this and all ASRM's Practice Committee documents, visit ASRM.org

If you'd like to know more about the types of practice documents and the methodology of their creation, visit this page on ASRM.org

The ASRM Today podcast is supported in part by the ASRM Corporate Member Council.