Marlane Angle received her PhD in Physiology in 1983 from Auburn University.  She completed two NIH funded postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX. She trained in IVF at the University of California, San Francisco, became a High Complexity Laboratory Director in 1995 and has directed IVF programs in Albuquerque, NM;  Asheville, NC; Greensboro, NC Las Vegas, NV; Little Rock, AR; Phoenix, AZ; Rochester, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and Winston-Salem, NC.  She has worked as a consultant with multiple companies including Irvine Scientific, Previvo Genetics, DxNow and the World egg Bank. She also teaches in both the Master’s and the PhD programs at Eastern Virginia Medical School.  She has published more than 70 papers, abstracts and chapters, and is one of the founders and currently President of the Board of Directors for the Southwest Embryology Summit.  When she isn’t traveling, she lives on a sailboat in the San Joaquin River outside of San Francisco with her husband.