- February 14, 2017
Get To Know Caitrin, Our New Director of Operations
In fact, my first internship was shadowing a Labor and Delivery Nurse in my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin. For reasons still unfathomable to me, a number of women and men allowed a s...
Read More - February 9, 2016
My Journey to Becoming an Embryologist
While pursing my degree in genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I enrolled in a summer course in the animal science department, Lab Techniques in Mammalian Gamete and Embryo...
Read More - August 18, 2014
Daragh Castaneda's Biography
March 2014, marked my six year anniversary in my current position with Pacific Fertility Center. As the Director of PFC's Egg Donor Agency and Pacific Fertility Egg Bank, I have had the...
Read More - March 24, 2014
From Italy to America - A PFC Embryologist's Story
The first time I saw an oocyte was in the spring of 2000 when I interviewed for a PhD position in the Department of Medical Embryology in Rome, Italy. I immediately fell in love with th...
Read More - August 12, 2013
PFC Integrates All of Me
I started working at PFC in 2000 as hardware IT support for a third party IT vendor. . Over time, as the technology needs of PFC expanded and diversified, the need for their own in-hous...
Read More - February 25, 2013
Jean Popwell, PFC Senior Embryologist
I first arrived in San Francisco 13 years ago from Atlanta, Georgia, right out of graduate school. I have to admit that moving 3,000 miles away from everyone and everything I knew was a...
Read More - December 30, 2011
Introducing Kirstin Mac Dougall
Growing up in a small town in New England, where the population of dairy cows outnumbered townspeople and the nearest neighbors were miles away, gave me the desire to work with people. ...
Read More - January 13, 2011
Cynthia Willson's Biography
I started college still living in a fantasy world. I, like most of the girls around me, thought I was going to get my MRS. Degree and find a husband. I dreamt of that big house with the...
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