Joint Satellite - Myometrium/ Parturition/ PREBIC

Joint Satellite Symposium by Preterm Birth International Collaborative (PREBIC)
and Parturition/Myometrium Group

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Meeting Room 8&15

Organizers:
PREBIC
Ramkumar Menon, Ph.D.

Professor, Division Director, Basic Science and Translational Research, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, TX, USA

Executive Director – PREBIC Global

Parturition/Myometrium:
Rachel Tribe, PhD

Professor of Maternal and Perinatal Science, Department of Women and Children's Health
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Director - PREBIC European Branch

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


Session I

Moderators: 
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.

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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

Bo Jacobsson, MD, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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.

The cervix and preterm birth – how can we get it right?
Natalie Suff, MD

Clinical Lecturer
Department of Women & Children’s Health
King’s College London, London, UK

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

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Oksana Shynlova, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CAN

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

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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

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

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

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