Jason E. Swain, PhD, HCLD is the Chief Laboratory Officer and President of Lab Operations of the CCRM IVF Laboratory Network; overseeing laboratory design, protocol/procedure implementation, as well as staff training and ongoing quality control monitoring for the network embryology, andrology, and endocrinology laboratories.

Dr. Swain is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Old Dominion University. He completed his BSc at Hillsdale College in his native Michigan, his MSc in Animal Science at Purdue University, and his PhD in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan in the lab of Dr. Gary Smith, PhD, HCLD. He then had clinical embryology training with Thomas “Rusty” Pool in San Antonio, TX, before becoming a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of OB/GYN and IVF lab director at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Swain has published extensively on topics related to embryology and has served on various committees for ASRM, ESHRE, SRBT, PCRS, and other professional organizations focused on assisted reproduction. He routinely gives regional, national, and international invited lectures on various topics related to the IVF laboratory.