Welcome – PRS President Yoel Sadovsky, MD

Liley Lectureship and Award Winner

James M. Roberts, MD – Whither Whither Toxaemia? (Whither Toxaemia revisited)

Abbott Nutrition Speaker

Terrie Inder, MD – New Advances in Recognition and Treatment of Brain Injury in the Term Born Infant

CIHR/ IHDCYH Speaker

Jacquetta M. Trasler, MDCM, PhD – Importance of Germline and Early Embryo DNA Methylation Dynamics for Normal Fetal Development

NICHD Speaker

Michael Soares, PhD – Uteroplacental Adaptations

March of Dimes Speaker

Fred W. Turek, PhD – Dysregulation of Circadian Rhythms as Sleep-Wake Cycle: Impact on Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome

Mead Johnson Speaker

Jeff Neil, MD, PhD – Understanding Brain Injury in the Preterm Infant

Invited Guest Speakers

Pathik Wadhwa, MB, DS, PhD – Stress in Human Pregnancy: Biological Mediators and Effects

Sam Mesiano, PhD – Steroid Hormone Receptors and the Physiology of Human Birth Timing

Emmet Hirsch, MD – The Role of Tool-like Receptors Signaling in Infection-Induced Preterm Labor

Leadership 2008

President – Yoel Sadovsky, MD

Secretary-Treasurer – Anthony R. Gregg, MD

2008 Memories