Alberto J. Carrillo, Ph.D., HCLD
Dr. Carrillo has been working in the field of reproductive biology since 1974 and in human embryology and IVF since 1991.
Dr. Carrillo received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX in 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Human Anatomy from the LSU School of Medicine in 1974. His dissertation work was on the physiology of the adrenal gland. After graduate school he spent two years of postdoctoral work at the UCLA Brain Research Institute where he specialized in the neuroendocrine regulation of ovulation. In 1976 he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Cell Biology at the University Of Texas School Of Medicine in San Antonio, TX. In 1987 he moved to the Anatomy Department at the Northeast Ohio University School of Medicine and in 1992 he assumed the position of Director of the Human Embryology Laboratory at the Fertility Center at the University Of Louisville School Of Medicine. He was in Kentucky until he joined the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wake Forest University in 2007.
Dr. Carrillo has more than 40 publications in peer reviewed journals and has been the principal investigator in several grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as private foundations.
He brings an impressive critical scientific background as well as years of clinical experience to the Human Embryology Laboratory in the Center for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Carrillo is personally responsible for the first pregnancy resulting from sperm injection in the state of Kentucky in 1994. He is a “hands-on” laboratory director and enjoys the type of work carried out in the human embryology laboratory such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection and embryo biopsy. His area of interest is embryo development and embryo cryopreservation.
Dr. Carrillo is certified as a High Complexity Laboratory Director from the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB). He is also a member of the Society for Reproductive Medicine and the College of Reproductive Biology (AAB).
Dr. Alberto Carrillo is a native of Cuba and has been in the United States since 1960. He became a U.S. citizen in 1970. He has three children.