Meet our IVF & Andrology Lab Staff Members

Shunping Wang

(Center)
Title: Director, IVF and Andrology Laboratory
Primary Location: Denver

Dr. Wang received his Bachelor’s degree from Taipei Medical College in Taiwan and his Master’s degree from Harvard University. Subsequently, he received his doctoral degree in Reproductive Biology from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his training at Boston IVF, and has extensive experience working with mammalian oocytes and embryos.

Dr. Wang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Colorado Health Science Center, and serves as the Director of IVF and Andrology Laboratories. He is certified as High Complexity Laboratory Directory (HCLD) by American Board of Bioanalysts (ABB). Dr. Wang is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the American Association of Bioanalysts.

Melissa Rosario

(Left)
Title: Embryology and Andrology Laboratory
Primary Location: Denver

Melissa has been working in the andrology and embryology laboratories at Advanced Reproductive Medicine since 2002. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology from Pomona College and spent 10 years pursuing academic research on multidrug resistance and pulmonary models of inflammation before switching to clinical duties. Melissa has been an AAB-certified Technical Supervisor since 2007, and has been certified as a reproductive lab inspector by the College of American Pathologists.

Melissa enjoys the active Colorado lifestyle and likes to learn new outdoor skills, such as tennis, scuba diving and triathlon training.

Tony Konowal

(Right)
Title: Embryology and Andrology Laboratory
Primary Location: Denver

Tony earned a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Colorado Denver in 2010. He has been working as an Embryologist/Andrologist at the University of Colorado Hospital’s Advanced Reproductive Medicine IVF and Andrology laboratories since January 2001. Tony has been an AAB-certified Technical Supervisor since 2006, and has nearly 10 years of experience with all aspects of embryo and gamete manipulation (IUI, TDI, ICSI, assisted hatching) and cryopreservation.