Dr. Tao is a CFAS certified ART Laboratory Director and ABB board certified Embryologist, Andrologist, and High Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director. He received his PhD in Embryo Biotechnology from China Agricultural University and the Institut fur Tierzucht und Tierverhalten, FAL, Germany (joint program), and completed extensive post-doctoral training at the University of Missouri. Dr. Tao has worked in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for over 28 years.
From 1988 to 1999, Dr. Tao had been engaged in the studies on embryo biotechnologies, including nuclear transfer, gene transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in vitro maturation, in vitro fertilization, embryo freezing and embryo splitting in the pig, cow, rabbit, goat and mouse.
In 2000, Dr. Tao joined Conceptia Clinic, Moncton, NB, Canada as a Senior Embryologist. He established all ART programmes and ran the IVF Laboratory. Dr. Tao also joined several other fertility clinics in North America as IVF Laboratory Director between 2005 and 2018. During these years, he acquired extensive knowledge in the areas of human ICSI, IVF, IVM, TESA, Egg freezing, PGD/PGS, Assisted Hatching, Blastocyst Culture and Vitrification, Cryopreservation. Dr. Tao also served as an Assistant Professor in the OB/GYN department at the Mercer University School of Medicine. He has over 40 publications in peer review journals to his credit.
In 2018, Dr. Tao joined ReproMed Fertility as the IVF Laboratory Director. Dr. Tao’s 28 years of experience in assisted reproduction has been an asset to the establishment and the continuing growth of our ART program. Dr. Tao is a member of many professional associations, such as Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society; the American Society for Reproductive Medicine; European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.