Embryologist On Fire

Natalie is an Embryologist. She regularly wears a scrub hat with fire flames print, and because of it gained the nickname Embryologist On Fire. Natalie’s first experience with reproductive health was as a patient when her own fertility treatment required pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT). She became so inspired with the advancing technology and procedures in the field on infertility that she changed her career path from emergency medicine to become an embryologist in 2009. During her career as an embryologist, Natalie was the lead embryologist at a clinic in Davis, California. She regularly discussed egg quality, embryo development, embryo biopsy results, and embryo transfers with patients of the clinic and she has shared both moments of joy and those of devastation with patients going through their own fertility journeys. She moved her family and career to the East Coast in 2017 to become a senior embryologist at Duke Medicine in North Carolina, then in 2019 Natalie launched her