40th Annual Meeting
Mohonk House
New Paltz, New York
Welcome – PRS President Jeffrey Segar, MD
Mead Johnson Speaker
Chris Kuzawa, PhD, MsPH – Developmental Plasticity, Nutrition and Adult Health: Evolutionary Perspectives
NICHD Speaker
Michael K. Georgieff, MD – The Role of Fetal and Neonatal Iron in Learning and Memory
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Leslie Myatt, PhD – Orchestrator or Cipher: the Placenta in Fetal Programming
Abbott Nutrition Speaker
David A. Ingram Jr., MD – Biology of Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Clinical and Therapeutic Uses
CIHR/IHDCYH Speaker
Jaques Belik, MD – Does Unique Early-Life Pulmonary Vasomotor Tone Regulation Account for Distinguishing Features of Neonatal and Adult Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension?
Invited Guest Speakers
Ofer Levy, MD, PhD – Distinct Innate Immunity of the Human Newborn: Basic Mechanisms, Clinical Correlations & Translational Opportunities
Lawrence P. Reynolds, PhD – Uteroplacental Vascular Development and Placental Function: An Update
Sarah K. England, PhD – Can K+ Channels Modulate the Timing of Labor?
Margaret L. Kirby, PhD – Congenital Heart Defects from the Perspective of Heart Fields
Pathik Wadhwa, MD, PhD – Prenatal Stress and Stress Biology in Human Pregnancy
Leadership 2009
President – Jeffrey Segar, MD
Secretary-Treasurer – Anthony R. Gregg, MD