38th Annual Meeting
Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort and Spa
Savannah, Georgia
Welcome – PRS President Sandy Davidge, PhD
Ross Abbott Speaker
Steve Levison, PhD – Compensatory Responses of Neural Stem Cells to Perinatal Brain Damage
CIHR Speaker
Bernard Thebaud, MD, PhD– Stem Cells to Prevent Chronic Lung Disease of Prematurity
Mead Johnson Speaker
Michael Symonds, PhD – Maternal Diet During Development – Critical Windows for Later Health
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Susan Fisher, PhD – The Human Placenta: A New Source of Hematopoietic Precursors
NICHD Speaker
S. Ananth Karumanchi, MD – Angiogenic Factors in the Pathogenesis and Prediction of Preeclampsia
March of Dimes Speaker
Louis Muglia, MD, PhD – Genetic Analysis of Parturition Timing
Invited Guest Speakers
Andrew Bass, PhD – Shaping Brain Sexuality: Steroid Hormones as Agents for Evolutionary Change in Audio-Vocal Mechanisms of Reproductive Behavior
Ira Bernstein, MD –Wither Toxemia (with apologies to JR)
Errol Norwitz, MD, PhD –Mechanisms and Management of Preterm Birth
Leadership 2007
President – Sandy Davidge, PhD
Secretary-Treasurer – Anthony R. Gregg, MD