Nashville, July 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Khalied Kaskar, PhD, HCLD has joined Ovation® Fertility as the laboratory director for the IVF labs in Austin and San Antonio as well as the andrology labs in New Braunfels, Round Rock and South Austin. This laboratory director’s wealth of assisted reproductive technology experience and global perspective on fertility care will allow Ovation to continue bringing the joy of parenthood through innovative science.
Dr. Kaskar earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in physiology as well as his PhD in medical bioscience from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. During his time in South Africa, Dr. Kaskar was a researcher at Tygerberg Hospital. There, he focused his research on developing a computerized system for measuring motion characteristics of sperm.
The next phase of Dr. Kaskar’s career brought him to Saudi Arabia where he worked as a chief IVF technician and helped set up an IVF laboratory in the National Guard Hospital. He then came to the United States, where he worked as an embryologist before eventually becoming the IVF laboratory manager and later the IVF laboratory director for the Family Fertility Center at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.
In addition to working in the lab, Dr. Kaskar also worked as an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and performed cutting-edge research. His research has focused…
