The Cardone Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Team
Led by Vito Cardone, M.D., one of the most experienced fertility doctors in North America, our clinical and administrative team members have dedicated their careers to helping those who need to build their families with the assistance of reproductive medicine.
Patients will have the opportunity to become acquainted with most of our staff members. You will feel like you are among family in our warm and friendly office environment. Everyone will know your name and be involved in some aspect of your care. You enter our doors as a prospective patient, but leave as someone we care about and whose dreams we share.
Team Biographies
- Vito Cardone, MD, Medical Director
- Daniele Cardone, BSN, Egg Donation and Gestational Carrier Coordinator
- Amy Kolano, RNC, MSN, Nurse Practitioner
- Toni-Ann Rebelo, ANP-BC, MSN, Nurse Practitioner
Vito R.S. Cardone, M.D., Medical Director & Infertility Doctor
Dr. Vito Cardone is a pioneer in the infertility field in both the U.S. and Canada. He received his undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal and his medical degree from Laval University in Quebec. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University. He is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
Dr. Cardone became interested in the field of infertility in the mid-70s when he was practicing maternal fetal medicine in Montreal. After the birth of the first in vitro fertilization baby in London in 1978, Dr. Cardone began exploring this new technology.
By 1986, he completed training at the Port Royal University Clinic Unit in Paris, where he was part of the team that tested the intravaginal culture procedure (IVC). Later that year, Dr. Cardone founded the Montreal Fertility Institute, which was the first private practice specializing in in vitro fertilization in Canada.
Dr. Cardone has performed IVF and related procedures for over 20 years while founding three successful fertility clinics in the United States. His career is highlighted by several firsts in infertility medicine. He headed the team that achieved the first pregnancy in New England with a woman receiving a donor egg while undergoing IVF (in vitro fertilization). Dr. Cardone also was responsible for the first birth in New England following an epididymal aspiration with IVF.
Under his direction, Dr. Cardone's fertility center was the first in New England to:
• Offer PESA (percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration);
• Achieve a live birth from a blastocyst embryo transfer;
• Achieve an assisted hatching pregnancy; and
• Publish a report of a life birth from a frozen (thawed) embryo using PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis).
His training includes postgraduate study in reproductive endocrinology, assisted reproductive technology, diagnostic laparoscopy, laser surgery, and microsurgery, including tubal reversals. He is also trained and experienced in male reproductive physiology, semen analysis, tissue culture, gamete maturation, PGD, fertilization and cleavage.
Dr. Cardone is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada). He is also a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, the New England Fertility Society, and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
Dr. Cardone is fluent in four languages including English, French, Spanish and Italian.
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Daniele Cardone, RN, BSN, Egg Donor & Gestational Carrier Program Coordinator
Daniele has worked with Dr. Cardone during the past 20 years as a fertility nurse, clinical director and egg donation/gestational carrier program manager. She worked with Dr. Cardone as co-founder of the Montreal Fertility Institute; and then in the helped him establish an infertility practice at Atlanticare in Lynn as well as three private practices.
Before working with Dr. Cardone, Daniele worked in Quebec, Canada, as a pediatric nurse at St. Sacrament and St. Justine hospitals. She holds a Canadian collegial diploma in health sciences and earned her bachelors degree in health sciences and nursing at Laval University.
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Amy S. Kolano, RNC, MSN, Nurse Practitioner
Amy Kolano has worked in the fertility field since 2000 at two Boston area fertility centers, most recently as a woman’s health nurse practitioner, and previously as a staff nurse. After several years of fertility nursing experience, Amy pursued her desire to become a women’s health nurse practitioner.
Amy earned both her bachelors of science in nursing and her masters of science in women’s health and adult primary care nursing from Simmons College in Boston. She is a registered nurse and a certified women’s health nurse practitioner through the National Certification Corporation. Amy began her nursing career on general medical/surgical floors caring for a diverse population ranging from newborns to geriatric patients. After building this solid nursing foundation, Amy followed her interests and began her fertility career.
As a nurse practitioner, her role includes direct patient care, patient education and counseling, consultation and collaboration with physicians, psychologists, and laboratory staff. Amy’s responsibilities include initial fertility visits, annual physical examinations, peri-operative consultations and examinations, gynecological care, telephone triage, IUI and IVF cycle management, and co-managing patients using donor gametes. She is skilled in fertility evaluation, uterine evaluation by sonohysterogram, uterine sounding, and intrauterine insemination.
Amy holds memberships in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, the New England Fertility Society, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the Massachusetts Coalition of Nurse Practitioners, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association.
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About Toni-Ann Rebelo, ANP-BC, MSN, Nurse Practitioner
Toni joined the Cardone Reproductive Medicine team in 2008 after previously being a staff nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Toni earned her bachelors of arts degree from Brandeis University, her nursing degree from Regis College/LMH, and her masters of science in nursing for both women’s health and adult primary care nursing from Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Professions. She is a registered nurse and a board-certified adult nurse practitioner through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
As a nurse practitioner, her role includes direct patient care, patient education and counseling, consultation and collaboration with physicians, psychologists, and laboratory staff. Toni’s responsibilities include initial fertility visits, annual physical examinations, peri-operative consultations and examinations, gynecological care, telephone triage, IUI and IVF cycle management, and co-managing patients using donor gametes. She is skilled in fertility evaluation, uterine evaluation by sonohysterogram, endometrial biopsies, uterine sounding, and intrauterine insemination. Toni holds memberships in the Sigma Theta Tau International and the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health.
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