Press

October 9, 2009

Village Fertility Pharmacy Hosts Meet and Greet, Book Signings at ASRM Event

Complimentary infertility books will be available at three authors’ events on Oct. 19 and 20.

Atlanta, Georgia: Village Fertility Pharmacy, a specialty pharmacy focused exclusively on infertility medications, will host book signings with three authors at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s 65th Annual Meeting at the Georgia World Congress Center from Oct. 17 to 21.

The authors’ meet and greets and book signings will take place in Village Fertility Pharmacy’s booth, number 156, and complimentary books will be available. Featured writers include: Alice “Ali” D. Domar, Ph.D., author of Be Happy Without Being Perfect; Kristen Magnacca, author of Love and Infertility; and Evelina Weidman Sterling Ph.D., author of Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation.

“We’re thrilled to have these three wonderful writers join us at our booth at various times throughout the ASRM show,” said Stuart Levine, pharmacist at and co-founder of Village Fertility Pharmacy. “We carry their books in our pharmacy and through our online products site, and fertility patients and medical professionals are continually praising their work.”

Magnacca will be conducting book signings at the booth on Monday, Oct. 19 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. and Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m. She started her fertility writing career with her first book, Girlfriend to Girlfriend: A Fertility Companion, which provides an honest and intimate first-person account of the emotional and physical tolls of infertility. Her latest book, Love and Infertility: Strategies for Survival—Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life, was recently honored with RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association’s national, inaugural Hope Award for Best Book in the “Coping” category.

With a doctorate in medical sociology and a master’s in public health, Sterling is an accomplished and well-known infertility expert, public health educator and researcher. She has co-written several best-selling and award-winning books, and is currently the CEO of My Fertility Plan, a leading infertility consulting firm aimed at providing health care consumers and infertility patients with a wide-range of unbiased and evidence-based educational resources and referrals. Sterling will be at the booth on Monday, Oct. 19 from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m.

Domar is the executive director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health and the director of Mind/Body Services at Boston IVF. She is an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, and a senior staff psychologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She will be signing books at the Village Fertility Pharmacy booth on Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine was founded in 1944 and is an organization of more than 8,000 physicians, researchers, nurses, technicians and other professionals dedicated to advancing knowledge and expertise in reproductive biology. For information, visit the ASRM site.

For information about Village Fertility Pharmacy, visit Villagefertilitypharmacy.com. To purchase the books noted above, please visit Village Fertility Products.

Village Fertility Pharmacy is a pharmacist-owned and operated specialty pharmacy dedicated to offering the best service and education to infertility patients and clinics. In operation for more than 20 years, Village has developed a deep understanding of the complicated nature of infertility treatments and the unique needs of infertility patients. Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., Village is the leading fertility pharmacy in New England, has a presence throughout the southeast and Midwest, and is expanding nationally. To extend its relationships with patients, Village has created Village Fertility Products, an online store that offers an array of books, kits and products to support couples throughout their conception, pregnancy and parenthood journeys.

For further information, e-mail Marci J. Hait of Matter Communications, Inc. or call her at  978-499-9250 Ext. 238.