SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM (updated March 24, 2008)
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 2008 5:00 - 8:00 pm
| Registration | | 6:00 - 6:45 pm | President's Welcome Reception
Exhibits and Posters Open
| 6:45 - 7:45 pm
| Buffet Dinner | | 7:45 - 8:30 pm | The Political and Ethical Outcome of 30 Years of the Practice of ART
Ronald M. Green, PhD | 8:30 – 9:30 pm | Dessert and Coffee Reception
Exhibits and Posters Open |
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2008
| 7:00 am | Continental Breakfast
| | 7:50 am | Opening Remarks
| | 8:00 am | Pandora's Baby: A Look Back at the Early Days of IVF Research
Robin Marantz Henig
| | 8:45 am | The Effects of ART on the Dynamics of the Family
Andrea Mechanick Braverman, PhD
| | 9:30 am | Morning Break
Exhibits and Posters Open
| | 10:15 am | Long Term Effects on Embryo Culture on Gene Expression and Behavior
Carmen Williams, MD, PhD | | 11:00 am | Outcomes of the Use of ICSI in ART
Andre Van Steirteghem, MD, PhD
| | 11:45 am | Panel Discussion: How the IVF Laboratory Impacts ART Outcomes
Moderator: Catherine Racowsky, PhD: Drs. Carmen Williams and Andre Van Steirteghem
| 12:15 - 1:30pm m | Roundtable Discussion Luncheon | 1:30 pm | Pacific Coast Reproductive Society Prize Paper
| | 1:45 pm | New England Fertility Society Prize Paper
| | 2:00 pm | Genetic/Epigenetic Diseases and ART: Is There a Connection?
Rosanna Weksberg, MD, PhD
| | 2:45 pm | Afternoon Break
Exhibits Open
| | 3:15 pm | National Trends in ART Outcomes
David A. Grainger, MD, MPH
| | 4:00 pm | Panel Discussion: Clinical Outcomes of ART: Our Experience Since Louise Brown
Moderator: Julia Johnson, MD: Drs. David Grainger and Rosanna Weksberg
| | 4:45 pm | Closing Remarks
| | 5:00 pm | Meeting Adjourned |
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