Embryology Laboratory
Northern Fertility and Reproductive Associates utilizes
the embryologists at the Pennsylvania Associates in Plymouth
Meeting. The embryologists are as follows:
Janice
Gilchrist, B.S.
Jeanne
Walters, B.S.
Kathryn
J. Go, Ph.D.
Laboratory Director
Kathryn J. Go, Ph.D. is the director of the IVF Laboratory
at Pennsylvania Reproductive Associates in Philadelphia
and in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a post she has held
since 1984. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a Doctor of Philosophy
in Molecular Biology. Dr. Go's post-doctoral fellowship
was completed at the Department of Biochemistry and Physiology
at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
PA.
Dr. Go received certification as a High-Complexity Clinical
Laboratory Director (HCLD) in 1995 through the American
Board of Bioanalysis, and under her direction, the IVF Laboratory
of Pennsylvania Reproductive Associates offers the full
array of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART).
Dr. Go has filled the role of either faculty or course director
for several postgraduate courses in the postgraduate programs
conducted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
(ASRM). She has served and is currently serving a term on
the Executive Council of the Society for Assisted Reproductive
Technology of the ASRM, and is a past member of the conjoint
College of American Pathologists/Reproductive Biology Resource
Committee. She is an ad hoc reviewer for the journal, Fertility
and Sterility. Dr. Go is also the immediate past-chair
of the Reproductive Biology Professional Group of the ASRM.
In addition to her membership in the ASRM, Dr. Go is also
a member of Sigma Xi, the Pacific Coast Fertility Society,
the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology,
and the American Association of Bioanalysts.
