In October, 2007, Marlane Angle, PhD, the laboratory director for Laurel Fertility Care, attended a meeting in Antalya, Turkey. While there she met Mr. Saif Ur Rehman from Galaxy IVF in Karachi, Pakistan. He later contacted Dr. Angle and asked if she would be willing to come to Pakistan to help train embryologists in her area of specialty, vitrification, a relatively new method for freezing embryos and oocytes. In June, 2008, Dr. Smikle and Dr. Angle both traveled to Pakistan to work with physicians and embryologists in the region.
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