NORFOLK—Jacob Mayer, Ph.D., director of the EVMS embryology lab and a leader in nationwide efforts to improve the quality of in vitro fertilization labs, was recently honored for his many years of service to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) with the Distinguished Service Award.

Mayer called the honor “unexpected.”

“It was nice to get some recognition for the hard work in front of the entire membership,” he said of the award, which was presented at the ASRM annual meeting in New Orleans.

Mayer, a member of ASRM since 1982, is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology. In addition, he serves as director of the in- vitro fertilization and endocrinology laboratories at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine and directs the multinational EVMS online master’s program in clinical embryology and andrology. He has been involved in various professional societies since 1995, including an ASRM ad-hoc committee for updating “Guidelines for Embryology and Andrology Laboratories.”

Since 1997, Mayer has participated in various ASRM and Society for Reproductive Technologies (SART) committees to help shape the Food and Drug Administration’s new tissue transplant regulations and to help members of the two organizations develop procedures for following the new regulations. The new regulations went into effect in May 2005.

Mayer is also commissioner of the Reproductive Laboratories Accreditation Program, a joint program of the American College of Pathologists and ASRM. In recent years, he worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a model for in-vitro fertilization lab accreditation.

Mayer received his undergraduate and master’s degrees in biological sciences from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He received a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology and completed a post-doctorate fellowship in molecular biology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Mayer worked in the embryology lab of what is now the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine from 1982 to 1986 before leaving to work as director of the Hoag Fertility Services Center Laboratory in Newport Beach, Calif. In 1994, he returned to EVMS as director of the embryology lab and has served in that position since.

For more information, contact:

Doug Gardner, Director of News and Publications
EVMS Office of Institutional Advancement
(757) 446-6070 - gardneda@evms.edu

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