Joint Satellite - Myometrium/ Parturition/ PREBIC

Session I

Moderator: 
Elizabeth Bonney, MD
President, PREBIC, Inc.
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Vermont, VT, USA

8:20 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Preterm Birth International Collaborative Activities
Elizabeth Bonney, MD
President, PREBIC, Inc.
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.

Incorporating measures of social inequality in preterm birth research.
Brandie DePaoli Taylor, Ph.D., MPH
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Division of the Basic Science and Translational Research
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX, USA

9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Maternal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution Mixture and Premature Rupture of Membranes and Preterm Birth: Evidence from A Large Cohort in Southern California
Darios Getahun, MD, PhD, MPH
Research Investigator II MD; Department of Research & Evaluation
Associate Professor; Department of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA, USA

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

COFFEE BREAK

Session II

Moderators:
Hanns Helmer, MD
Past President & Executive Council Member- PREBIC
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ramkumar Menon, PhD
Professor, Division Director, Basic and Translational Research
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
Executive Director – PREBIC

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Ambient air pollution and preterm birth risks modified by residential greenspace.
Jim Zhang, MD, Ph.D., MPH
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine
Shanghai, PR China

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Advancing Drug Discovery with Bioengineered 3D Tissue Models: Applications to Human Reproductive Systems?
Marc Ferrer, Ph.D.
Director, 3-D Tissue Bioprinting Laboratory
Division of Preclinical Innovation
Early Translation Branch
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Spatial and temporal dynamics of cell populations at the maternal-fetal interface
Shirley Greenbaum, Ph.D.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

An AI-driven Taxonomy for Prematurity
Nima Aghaeepour, Ph.D.
Professor of Anesthesiology
Stanford University, San Jose, CA, USA

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH BREAK

Session III

Moderators: 
Jennifer Herington, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics and Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Rachel Tribe, PhD
Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Science, Department of Women and Children’s Health
King’s College London, London, UK
Director, PREBIC European Branch

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Pregnancy-specific epithelial subtypes in the cervix: new clues to understand immune-protection.
Mala Mahendroo, PhD
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Extracellular GRP78 is Critical for the Resolution of Inflammation During Pregnancy
Jennifer C. Condon, PhD
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI, USA

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Prevention of preterm birth: current perspectives
Oksana Shynlova, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Obstetrics&Gynecology and Physiology, University of Toronto
Research Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai
Toronto, Ontario, CAN

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Progesterone for preterm birth risk mitigation – Teaching an old dog new tricks
Sam Mesiano, PhD
Professor
Department of Reproductive Biology
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

COFFEE BREAK

Session IV

Moderator:
Bo Jacobsson, MD, PhD
Professor/ Chief Physician
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Head of Perinatal Research Laboratory at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Senior researcher at the Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.

4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

March of Dimes: Research Priorities and Funding Mechanisms

Emre Seli, M.D.
Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Chief Scientific Officer
March of Dimes, Washington, DC, USA

4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion
How to improve basic science and translational research to reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Panelists:

1. Emre Seli, MD
   Chief Scientific Officer
   March of Dimes, Washington, DC, USA
    
2. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD
   Chair and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
   University of California San Diego, CA, USA
    
3. Kelle Moley, MD
   Global VP of Clinical and Translational R&D
   Ferring Pharmaceuticals US
    
4. Stephen J. Lye, PhD
   Senior Investigator, Associate Director
   Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada