Jennifer Neumann
Jen comes to SRM with over ten years of experience in the fertility field. Hailing from Albuquerque, she earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and Chemistry at the University of New Mexico. Soon after graduation, Jen continued her interest in the sciences and began her career at a private practice in Albuquerque performing Andrology, phlebotomy and hormone assay work for two years. It was then that she first realized that this was an exciting and fast growing field.
Feeling the need to live in a bigger city, Jen moved up to Seattle with no job but a lot of hope. She soon found a job with a fertility doctor in private practice in Bellevue, WA. There, she acquired a vast amount of knowledge about all aspects of infertility, including the laboratory, the clinic and surgical procedures involved in a fertility practice. She was involved in all clinical aspects of in-vitro fertilization such as injection teaching, assisting in oocyte retrievals and ultrasound monitoring. After three years, she then joined the Fertility Center at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. There, she learned the art of embryology and excelled in her work. She became proficient in all aspects of reproductive laboratory work, including egg retrieval, ICSI, assisted hatching, embryo grading and selection, embryo transfer, embryo blastomere biopsy, and especially embryo cryopreservation and thawing. Jen was instrumental in almost doubling the frozen embryo pregnancy rate at Virginia Mason.
Following the closure of Virginia Mason's Fertility Center, and after gaining 5 years of experience, Jen joined SRM's Embryology team. Over the past years, Jen has worked on many projects in the Embryology Laboratory, including over-seeing quality control of SRM's incubators. She is looking forward to furthering her career in this fascinating line of work. In her spare time, Jen spends a lot of time in her family's cabin with her husband and two children.
"I really enjoy the environment here at SRM and am lucky to work with such a wonderful group of people. We are all focused on providing the best care we can to our patients."
