Kathleen Ray Miller

          Class of 1979

                    Inducted June 9, 2002 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Kathleen A. Miller, Board Certified Embryologist and Andrologist

Mrs. Miller graduated from Revere High School in June 1979.  She then continued her education at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, receiving a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology with a minor in French.  Mrs. Miller did her graduate work in molecular biology specializing in transgenic transfer at Kent State University of Ohio.

 

Beginning at University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1990, she first learned from and now collaborates with many of the outstanding reproductive physicians and scientists who have brought In vitro Fertilization/Assisted Reproduction Technologies to its current levels of success.  In 1992, she established and directed the Assisted Reproduction Laboratories at Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine before moving to Charleston in 1996 to establish and direct the Assisted Reproduction Laboratories at the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and Southeastern Fertility Center. Currently Mrs. Miller is responsible for all functions of the world's largest and most successful private practice clinical in vitro fertilization laboratory, Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey and also Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York and Advanced Fertility and Reproductive Endocrinology Institute of South Carolina.  Under her direction, RMA programs have been able to provide pregnancy success rates consistently at 50% or higher. 

 

In addition to Mrs. Miller's work experience, she is the author of more than 35 abstracts and papers on fertility and assisted reproductive technologies.   Mrs. Miller is well known for her research advances in the promising new field of blastocyst culture and transfer, a technique that involves transferring embryos that are cultured to the blastocyst stage on day five of development, rather than the more typical IVF technique of three-day transfer.  This technology has greatly increased the safety of using assisted reproductive techniques by decreasing the patient's risk of having more than one baby during their infertility treatment.  Mrs. Miller serves on various committees of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, International Embryo Transfer Society, The Alpha Embryological Society, The American Association of Bioanalysis, College of Reproductive Biologists, Society for the Study of Reproduction, and American Society of Andrology.  She also is an accreditor of laboratories for the College of American Pathologists, serves as a laboratory consultant and speaker for many pharmaceutical companies and maintains an active role in the training and education of future reproductive scientists.

 

Mrs. Miller resides in New Jersey with her husband Ron (class of 1976) and their teenage children Jaclyn, Samantha and Christopher.

 

 

 

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