Founded in 2005, MedTech is a unique company with extensive, broad-based experience in the healthcare field with a particularly comprehensive knowledge of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) industry. The collaborative approach of our team is designed to provide practices of all sizes with customized solutions for their full range of needs. MedTech members have over 125 years of collective fertility practice development experience. We have helped 20 ART practices or IVF laboratories nationally to relocate, design/build, manage or develop their own successful programs.
Executive Team
Dwight P. Ryan – President and CEO, is a seasoned executive possessing extensive finance, accounting, and operations experience in healthcare and technology with early stage start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Ryan was formerly the Chief Financial Officer of the publicly-traded infertility services company, IntegraMed America and developed a revolutionary infertility case management company to streamline patient care and contain medical and pharmacy costs for leading healthcare insurance companies. Mr. Ryan has spent the majority of his career in the area of infertility. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey and currently is also the Chief Operating Officer of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York, one of the leading ART facilities in the country. Mr. Ryan is currently a board member on the national board of RESOLVE, having served for a total of over 8 years, four years as its treasurer and member of the executive committee.
Kathleen Miller, D.H. Sc. – Vice President of Laboratory Services, leads the team specializing in assisted reproduction technologies. The author of more than 100 abstracts and papers on fertility and assisted reproduction technologies, Dr. Miller is well known for research advances in the field of blastocyst culture, and pre-implantation genetics as well as a leading expert in laboratory management, quality improvement programs, and single embryo transfer.
Dr. Miller and her MedTech team have designed state-of-the-art laboratories at Billings Clinic, University of Alabama, Advanced Reproductive Medicine and Gynecology’s Fertility Institute of Hawaii, Aurora Reproductive Care in Saskatoon, Coastal Fertility Specialists in Charleston, SC, University of North Carolina Fertility Center in Chapel Hill, NC, SpringCreek Fertility in Dayton, Ohio and Family Fertility Center at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. All of these ART laboratories continue to deliver exceptional pregnancy rates and cutting-edge technologies.
Dr. Miller is actively involved in research projects relating to many areas of assisted reproduction. As Scientific and research director at IVF Florida, she is actively involved in research projects at the University of Miami, Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University. At IVF Florida, she continues to work on time-lapse technology to select embryos that have the best chance of developing into a successful pregnancy and birth.
Strategic HR and Talent Management Solutions
Rita Gruber has more than thirty-five years experience on a senior executive level both in retail and healthcare management. Her credentials in RE administration are supported by twenty-three successful years in HR and operations administration as IntegraMed’s first Director of Human Resources, followed by VP of Human Resources at RMA of New Jersey, and currently President of the Gruber Group, LLC doing consulting work with the MedTech For Solutions Team for RE practices and clinics across the country.
Rita received her BA from the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY and her Paralegal degree from Mercy College, White Plains, NY.As a senior executive in NY retailing she acquired strong operations and process improvement competencies that complement and bring increased value to her HR administration skills.
During her career in RE, Rita has hired executives and staff in all the RE disciplines; chaired PG Courses and Symposia for ARM at several ASRM conferences and other professional meetings; coached and mentored physicians, managers, and staff in leadership and performance competencies; served at the Rutgers University Career Development Center, volunteering her expertise to help graduating students prepare for job interviews, and was a client adviser to Total Compliance Solutions (TCS/MedSafe).
Laboratory Team
Off Site Directors
Jennifer E. Graves-Herring, Ph.D., HCLD earned her Ph. D. (Biological Science) from Clemson University in 2008 where she also earned her M.S. (Animal Physiology) and B.S. (Animal Science). In her post-doctorial fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, Department of Reproductive Services she is performing research studying the preservation of cat oocytes by desiccation and developed of a study to increase the percentage of blastocyst obtained from in vitro production of cat oocytes. Previous laboratory responsibilities include implementation of FDA requirements, developing laboratory procedures and ensuring compliance. She is a member of the AAB and is certified as a High Complexity Clinical Laboratory Director (andrology and embryology).
Joy Peterson, B.S., T.S. (AAB), ELD (ABB), earned her B.S. in animal science from Illinois State University and has pursued graduate coursework in aquaculture and reproductive physiology at Illinois State University and the University of Missouri. She is certified as a Technical Supervisor and an Embryology Laboratory Director with ABB. Joy worked as a clinical manager of fertility and with more than 20 years of ART laboratory experience she joined MedTech For Solutions as an Consulting Embryologist and Quality Assurance Manager.