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University Hospitals replaces director of fertility clinic

Dr. James Liu will assume the primary lead over the University Hospitals Fertility Clinic

Five weeks after a storage tank failure destroyed 4,000 eggs and embryos at its fertility center, University Hospitals has replaced the center's director.

On Tuesday evening, UH confirmed that Dr. James Liu will assume the primary lead over its fertility clinic lab. Liu is currently the chair of the hospital's OB/GYN department.

Dr. James Goldfarb had been running the fertility center at Ahuja Medical Center as Division Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility since 2011. He will remain at UH and focus on coordinating all of the patient care at the fertility clinic. Dr. Goldfarb is credited with Ohio's first in vitro fertilization birth in 1983 and the world's first IVF/surrogate birth in 1986.

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UH adds that in addition to their equipment upgrades in the aftermath of last month's tank failure, they have added additional staff to accommodate increased patient volume. Among the equipment upgrades they note include new tanks, alarms, surveillance, and remote monitoring systems.

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On March 26, University Hospitals sent a letter to the 950 families impacted and stated it was human error that caused the destruction of the eggs and embryos in the long-term storage tank.

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