39th Annual Meeting
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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
Memories from 2008 Meeting – Santa Fe, New Mexico












