Your San Diego fertility center: Reproductive Sciences Center & Genetics Institute

San Diego Fertility Expert Staff

A fertility center is only as good as its staff and facilities. We are very pleased that many highly skilled, caring clinical and lab staff are a part of our team. To read about our reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Sam Wood, click here.

Our Affiliated Physicians

Martin Bastuba, M.D. is the founder and medical director of Male Fertility Specialists in San Diego. He is part of the elite group of only 2% of board-certified urologists in the U.S. who have sprecialized training in treatments and procedures relating to male fertility. He is very adept at surgical procedures, performing many successful microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA) and testicular sperm extraction (TESE) at Reproductive Sciences Center. He is the only board-certified urologist and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in San Diego qualified to offer these highly specialized medical services. For more information about the procedures, please visit his websites www.malefertility.md or www.vasectomyinfo.com.

Minh N. Ho, M.D. graduated from the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida. After three years in private practice as an obstetrician, Dr. Ho received additional training in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of California, San Diego and then spent a year as a guest scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland where he also completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Ho is Board Certified in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He has offices in San Diego and in Orange County, California. For more information about Dr. Ho, please visit his website at www.ivfdoc.com.

Dr.Benito Villanueva has been practicing medicine since 1974 and was board certified in Obstetrics/Gynecology in 1975. Dr. Villanueva received his medical degree from the Universidad of Buenos Aires in 1966. He served his internship specializing in Rotating at Prince George’s County Hospital and served his residency specializing in OB/GYN at Georgetown University Hospital. He completed a Post Doctoral Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1974. With more than 30 years in the infertility field, Dr. Villanueva’s impressive track record has earned him the respect of his fellow reproductive endocrinologists, and the admiration of his patients. Dr. Villanueva spends time on both sides of the U.S. & Mexican border serving patients at state-of-the-art healthcare clinics and many of his patients fly in from South America and Europe, because of his expertise and sterling reputation.

Nursing Staff

The nursing staff was carefully selected for their nursing and interpersonal skills.

Angela Scroop, B.S., our IVF Coordinator, has almost 8 years experience in providing care for those with infertility. Her outstanding organizational skills allow her to coordinate even the most complex patient treatment plans with apparent ease. Her dedication to this field and her caring for those with infertility is perhaps best exemplified by the fact that she has served as both an egg donor and gestational surrogate. This "personal experience" with the medications, fertility treatment protocols and procedures used to treat infertility have given her a great empathy for those undergoing such treatment.

Laboratory Staff

The success of the ART laboratory is, of course, based on the staff who combine skill, experience, and dedication with state-of-the-art equipment to provide consistently good outcomes for our patients. The following are our senior staff members.

Catharine Adams, our ART Laboratory and Scientific Director, holds a Ph.D. in Mammalian Embryology from one of the most prestigious universities in the world, University of Cambridge (UK), where she performed her research on blastocyst development. Since 1985, when she began her career in IVF, she has, among other distinctions, that of being the embryologist for the second successful frozen embryo transfer in the United States 15 years ago. Dr. Adams is one of the first fully certified High Complexity Laboratory Directors (HCLD) in the U.S. Although very skilled technically, she is also well known in the infertility community for her ability and willingness to communicate complex embryologic concepts to patients.

Linda Anderson, our Senior Embryologist, has over 20 years experience in IVF, prenatal diagnosis, and cytogenetics. This broad range of technical experience makes her uniquely qualified to perform our preimplantation genetic diagnosis testing and analysis. After receiving a B.A. in zoology from San Diego State University, she completed graduate work in genetics and biochemistry there. Before joining Reproductive Sciences Center, she held positions at Children's Hospital, UCSD School of Medicine, and was Laboratory Supervisor at the Alvarado Hospital IVF program.

Dr. Adams and Ms. Anderson were among the first in this country to become nationally certified Reproductive Cryogenic Specialists. Both are perfectionistic in their work and are actively involved in a comprehensive quality assurance program. Both have been selected by CAP to inspect other ART laboratories seeking accreditation.