34th Annual Meeting
The Mills House Hotel
Charleston, South Carolina
Welcome – PRS President Christine Gleason, MD
Ross Abbott Speaker
Sam Hawgood, MD – Surfactant Proteins: Regulators of Alveolar Homeostasis
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Lindsey Allen, MD, FRCP – Outcomes After Fetal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease – Have We Made a Difference?
NICHD Speaker
Cathy Spong, MD, PPB, CRMC, NICHD, NIH –Prevention of Alcohol-Induced Damage in a Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
CIHR Speaker
David Olson, PhD –A Decade of Advances in Prostaglandins and Pre-Term Labour: Are We Any Closer to an Effective Tocolytic?
March of Dimes Speaker
Michael Gravett, MD – Proteomics: Applications to Maternal and Perinatal Health
Mead Johnson Speaker
Paul Trainor, PhD – Neural Crest Cells: Plasticity and the Role of a Stem Cell Like Population in Craniofacial Development Disease and Evolution
Invited Guest Speakers
Kanwaljeet S. Anand, MBBS, D. Phil, PCCM, FRCPCH – Long-term effects of Repetitive Pain and Analgesia in Neonates
Timothy Baba, MD PhD –The Strategic Evolution of AIDS Vaccine Development
Francis Northington, MD – Brain Injury and Development
Francois Luks, MD, PhD – The Shrinking Scope: Evolution of Fetal Surgery, Instrumentation and Indications
Leadership 2003
President – Christine Gleason, MD
Secretary-Treasurer – Lowell E. Davis, MD