35th Annual Meeting
The Banff Centre
Alberta, Canada
Welcome – PRS President Ronald R. Magness, PhD
Ross Abbott Speaker
Rebecca Simmons, MD – Fetal Origins of Adult Disease, Nature vs Nurture
March of Dimes Speaker
John J. Greer, PhD – Insights into the Pathogenesis and Etiology of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Mead Johnson Speaker
Philip W. Shaul, MD – Signaling Modules in Caveolae/ Lipid Rafts: Good Things Come in Small Packages
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Phil Baker, MD – Pre-eclampsia:Time to Translate Bench to Bedside
CIHR Speaker
B. Lowell Languille, PhD – Hemodynamic Forces and Developmental Arterial Remodeling
NICHD Speaker
Thaddeus G Golos, PhD – A Human Embryonic Stem Cell Model for Trophoblast Differentiation and Placental Morphogenesis
Invited Guest Speakers
Michael Acarregui, MD, PhD – Angiogenic Factors in Alveolar Development: Maintaining Community Amongst Diversity
Kelle Harbert Moley, MD – Maternal Hyperglycemia and Hyperinsulinemia-Effect on Oogenesis and Preimplantation Embryogenesis
Brigid Hogan, PhD – Branch, Bud and Stem: Deconstructing Lung Development
Leadership 2004
President – Ronald R. Magness, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer – Lowell E. Davis, MD