Meet Our Team

Nurses

Catherine Hounshell, R.N., B.S.N. has worked in Women’s Health for over 25 years as a nurse in Labor and Delivery, as an IVF Nurse Coordinator in the 1990s and in coordinating research and clinical projects. She feels that each member of our team, including our patients, brings a unique gift to contribute to our common goal. In addition to classic IVF, Catherine coordinates family-building using donor eggs.

Vivian Marquez, L.V.N. has been at the Alta Bates In Vitro Fertilization Program for six years and in the medical field for twenty years. She finds helping people create families an inspiring and wonderful experience. Vivian is fluent in Spanish. One of Vivian’s many assignments is the Embryo Donation Program which offers patients yet another option of creating their unique families.

Alta Bates IVF Program provides the full range of infertility services, including IVF, ICSI, MESA, Donor Eggs, Gestational Surrogacy, IUI, Ovulation Induction and Reproductive Surgery. The program was established by Dr. Richard Chetkowski in 1984 and it operates in affiliation with Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley, California. The Alta Bates IVF Program offers the best of clinical care to infertile couples, same-sex couples, single men and women in a warm, comfortable, and supportive community hospital setting. Each patient receives personalized care from a single highly experienced physician. Many of our patients have complex infertility factors or have failed treatments elsewhere, so they often benefit from the individualized care, meticulous attention to detail and the depth of clinical experience unique to our program.

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