Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 68-74 , January 2010

External quality control for embryology laboratories

  • Jose Antonio Castilla

      Affiliations

    • Human Reproduction Unit, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, 18014 Granada, Spain
    • Sperm Bank CEIFER, Granada, Spain
    • Programa de Control de Calidad Externo para el Laboratorio de Reproducción de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción (ASEBIR), Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Rafael Ruiz de Assín

      Affiliations

    • Human Reproduction Unit, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, 18014 Granada, Spain
    • ,
  • Maria Carmen Gonzalvo

      Affiliations

    • Human Reproduction Unit, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, 18014 Granada, Spain
    • ,
  • Ana Clavero

      Affiliations

    • Human Reproduction Unit, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, 18014 Granada, Spain
    • ,
  • Juan Pablo Ramírez

      Affiliations

    • Sperm Bank CEIFER, Granada, Spain
    • Programa de Control de Calidad Externo para el Laboratorio de Reproducción de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción (ASEBIR), Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Francisco Vergara

      Affiliations

    • Sperm Bank CEIFER, Granada, Spain
    • Programa de Control de Calidad Externo para el Laboratorio de Reproducción de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Biología de la Reproducción (ASEBIR), Madrid, Spain
    • ,
  • Luis Martínez

      Affiliations

    • Human Reproduction Unit, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, 18014 Granada, Spain

Received 28 July 2008 ,Revised 13 October 2008 ,Accepted 10 September 2009.

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 Jose Castilla graduated in medicine in 1985, completed his PhD in 1986 (Granada University) and then specialised in clinical analyses. He has been Director of the Andrology and Embryology, Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain since 1991 and founded the CEIFER sperm bank in 1993. He has been co-ordinator of the Spanish External Quality Control Programme for Semen Analysis since 1999 and for the Assisted Reproduction Laboratory since 2003. A founder member of the Spanish Association of Clinical Embryologists (ASEBIR), and on its executive committee from 1993 to 2000, he is currently on the executive committee of the Spanish Fertility Society and deputy co-ordinator of ESHRE’s Special Interest Group in Andrology.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00148-5

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.09.033

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 68-74 , January 2010

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