Catherine RacowskyDr. Catherine Racowsky is Professor Emerita of Obstetrics and Gynecolog, Harvard Medical School, was director of the IVF laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital for over twenty years and is currently a University Consultant for Hospital Foch, Surenes, France. She received her Bachelors' degree from Oxford University, her Ph.D. from Cambridge University and undertook her post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She is Past President of the ASRM and is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, a Special Editor for Fertility and Sterility and an editorial board member of RBMOnline and F&S Science. Her research interests include investigating the regulation of meiotic maturation in human oocytes, the impact of mitochondrial function/dysfunction in the cumulus cells surrounding the oocyte on oocyte viability and expanding methodologies for assessing human embryo developmental competency. She has authored over 180 peer-reviewed papers, more than twenty-five chapters, and has co-edited eleven books. Read More Read Less