Claudio Benadiva, MD, HCLD Announced As New Medical Director at The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services
Alison Bartolucci, PhD, HCLD Promoted to Laboratory Director
Farmington, CT, January 19, 2021… The Center for Advanced Reproductive Services (The Center), a prominent family building program, announced Dr. Claudio Benadiva as Medical Director. Dr. Benadiva, who previously served as The Center’s High Complexity Lab Director, replaces Dr. John Nulsen, who is stepping down as medical director to focus more on The Center’s IVF and Donor Egg Programs as well as its academic mission. Dr. Alison Bartolucci has been promoted and will replace Dr. Benadiva as High Complexity Laboratory Director.
As Medical Director, Dr. Benadiva will be responsible for oversight and have responsibility for ensuring appropriateness and quality of services and care is continually provided to all patients and their families as prescribed in The Center’s clinical policies and procedures and applicable national standards.
As High Complexity Laboratory Director, Dr. Bartolucci will be responsible for the day-to-day operation, management, organization and supervision of the laboratory operations and staff and for ensuring that the highest standards in quality, safety and success rates are met.
According to The Center’s CEO, Paul Verrastro, “A cornerstone of The Center’s success is the in-depth experience of our clinical leadership team. Both Dr. Benadiva and Dr. Bartolucci are considered thought leaders in the field of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) and have distinguished themselves nationally as committed clinicians and academics. This combination of clinical care and basic science is what translates into success for our patients. Residents of Connecticut and our surrounding towns are lucky to have this team available to them to meet their family building needs.”
Both Dr. Benadiva and Dr. Bartolucci have extensive experience in the REI field. Dr. Benadiva has been a lead physician at the Center since 1998 and is the former High Complexity Lab Director. Under his direction with Dr. Bartolucci by his side, The Center’s lab has received national recognition for its high standards and has received CAP Laboratory Accreditation, a program designed to ensure the highest standard of care for all laboratory patients. Dr. Benadiva is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UConn Health, is a Fellow of the American College of Ob/Gyn, and is board certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. During Dr. Benadiva’s 3-year REI Fellowship at Cornell, he spent 18 months focusing on IVF research in their world-famous lab. During this time, he worked elbow to elbow with fertility pioneers like Jacque Cohen, PhD (embryology), Santi Munne, PhD (PGD/S) and Gianpiero Palermo, PhD (ICSI).
Dr. Bartolucci joined the Center in 2012 and most recently was Operational Laboratory Director. She received her PhD in 2019 from Eastern Virginia Medical School and is a Faculty Instructor at UConn Health. She started her embryology career at Mass General under the guidance of Catherine Rancowski, PhD, and was later was mentored by embryo grading pioneer Lynette Scott, PhD. Dr. Bartolucci completed her PhD in basic science research at UConn Health under the mentorship of John Peluso, PhD.
