Michael Zavy

The Center's Laboratory Director, Michael Zavy, PhD, attributes their positive success rates largely to improvements in the IVF procedure, better embryo culture protocols and the increasing use of extended culture to the blastocyst stage of development.

"While the pregnancy rates are very good, what is most exciting is that rates have been achieved transferring only two embryos per transfer," Zavy said.He added that the Center has been committed to lowering the multiple birth rates since it was developed in 1996.

"According to the last published SART statistics, our program was one of the 10 lowest in the country out of approximately 350 programs across the U.S. in the number of embryos that were put back into patients," Zavy said.