Lindsay Polowczuk, MSN WHNP 3rd Party Coordinator for PREG Discusses Fertility Options for LGBTQ couples Lindsay, what can you advise LGBTQ couples in regard to infertility? All patients of the LGBTQ community are going to need some form of help in the fertility world and we are here to provide that whether it’s providing an egg donor, sperm donor assistance,…
Annual Fertility Testing
Tori Bishop MS, FNP-BC, PREG Nurse Practitioner and Director of Nursing, discusses the need for annual fertility testing. Tori, what is annual fertility testing? Sometimes I think we, as clinicians, do a really poor job of talking to women about taking control of their fertility. It starts in adolescents. We preach don’t get pregnant before you’re ready. Then later, society…
Dr. Edward Tarnawa Looks Ahead to 2022
Dr. Edward Tarnawa, Medical Director of PREG’s Lowcountry Center, Looks Ahead to 2022 Doc, after 17 months of operation in the Lowcountry can you give us an update? It’s been great! First of all, I couldn’t imagine a finer staff or facility. A group of skilled and experienced individuals formerly with the Fertility Center of Charleston stuck with us and…
PREG Holiday Greeting and Interview with Faith Ripley, PREG CEO
Legal Matters in Regard to Reproductive Care
PREG works with a variety of experts regarding family and reproductive endocrinology. We recently sat down with attorney James Fletcher Thompson of Thompson Dove Law Group in Spartanburg, South Carolina to discuss areas of legal counsel and the law surrounding fertility and reproductive medicine. Thompson Dove Law Group focuses on building families, offering services in the areas of adoption, custody,…
IVF Cancer Reflection
Team Spotlight – Stephanie Madden
Stephanie Madden is the Practice Manager for PREG Spartanburg How long have you been in healthcare and with PREG? I started in the medical field when I was in high school. My Mom worked in a medical facility for over 25 years and I started there. Then I moved to diagnostics as part of Spartanburg Regional. I was there for…
The Evolution of Fertility Care & The Future
We sat down with PREG founder and medical director, kDr. John Nichols to talk about the evolution of reproductive endocrinology and fertility treatment. Dr. Nichols, please explain how infertility care and treatment have grown since its inception. Back in the day when infertility medicine had begun, there weren’t as many options as there are today. For example, if it was…
Dr. Kathryn Snow of PREG Lowcountry
The Doctor Is In! Get to know our newest physician, Dr. Kathryn Snow PREG/Lowcountry Kathryn Snow, M.D., M.H.A Reproductive Endocrinologist Tell us About Yourself I was born and raised in Charlotte, NC and my mom was an English teacher, and I always sort of gravitated toward how she was in school. She was even my English teacher and I was…
Missy Edwards and Her Role at PREG
Melissa “Missy” Edwards is the Office Manager at the PREG Asheville, NC office. She describes her role at PREG. How long have you been with PREG? I have been with PREG since November 2013 when Dr. Holman’s office merged with PREG. I started out doing front desk check-in and check out and then later move up to the office manager…