47th Annual Meeting
September 23-25, 2016
Eaglewood Resort & Spa
Itasca, Illinois
Welcome – PRS President, Ian Bird, PhD
Mead Johnson Nutrition Speaker
Alan Conley, BVSc, MS, PhD, FRCVS – Human Exceptionalism: Is It the Exception that Proves the Rule?
March of Dimes Speaker
Brian Cox, PhD –Genes – Placentas and Pathologies – a Multi-Scale Systems Biology Analysis
NICHD Placental Project
David Weinberg, PhD – The Human Placenta Project: Progress and Future Directions
Mead Johnson Nutrition Early Career Speakers
Kevin Johnson, PhD – Prospects for Monitoring Maternal-Fetal Disease using Advanced Quantative MR
Styliani Goulopoulous, PhD, MS – Hypertension in Pregnancy: Novel Mechanisms of Maternal Vascular Dysfunction
Abbott Nutrition Speaker
Jonathan M Fanaroff, MD, JD – Prevailing Ethical Issues in Fetal & Neonatal Care
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Kent L Thornburg, PhD – Women – Placentas – Babies: New Insights on the Origins of Human disease
PSANZ Early Career Speaker
Stacey Ellery, PhD – Is Creatine Transport and Synthesis Important for Human Placental Bioenergetics?
Abbott Nutrition Early Career Speakers
Arthur Vaught, MD – The Upregulation of the Alternative Pathway of Complement of HELLP Syndrome
Mary Robbins, MD – Role of MicroRNAs in Neonatal Lung Disease Models
NIH / NICHD Speaker
Gary D Hammer, MD, PhD – Translating Adrenal Stem Cells: Implications for Disease
UW-Madision OGBYN Speaker
Laura L Hernandez, PhD – SSRIs: The Good and Potentially Ugly? Invited Associate Member Speaker
Invited Associate Member Speaker
Jill Maron, MD, MPH –Bringing Salivary Diagnostics to the Neonatal Bedside
Leadership 2016
President – Ian Bird, PhD
Secretary – Treasurer – Paul Rozance, MD
Memories from 2016 Meeting – Eaglewood Resort, Itasca, IL
