“Environmental Influences on Perinatal Health and Disease”
54th Annual Meeting
September 13 – 15
Renaissance Hotel
Providence, Rhode Island
Friday, September 13, 2024
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Check-In & Registration
Location: Symphony Foyer, Renaissance Hotel
6:00 pm
Welcome Reception/Dinner
The Pavilion at Grace: 300 Westminster Street (Offsite)
7:15 pm
Welcome: Irina Buhimschi, MD, 2024 PRS President
7:30 pm
Liley Lecture: Judy Aschner, MD
Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes: A Focus on the Most Vulnerable
Moderated by: Irina Buhimschi, MD
Saturday, September 14, 2024
7:00 – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Location: Symphony B (Buffet in Foyer)
Morning Session – Location: Symphony A
8:00 – 8:45 am
University of Illinois Speaker: Almudena Veiga-Lopez, DVM, PhD
The Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor, Placental Target for Emerging Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
Moderated by: Karin Fox, MD
8:45 – 9:00 am
Questions and Answers
9:00 – 9:45 am
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Speaker: Mercedes Bravo, PhD
Environmental Exposures and Perinatal Health: Understanding Exposure Mixtures and Windows of Susceptibility
Moderated by: Lydia Shook, MD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Questions and Answers
10:00 – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 – 11:00 am
NIH/NICHD Speaker: Lauren Aleksunes, PhD, PharmD
Future Threats: Mycoestrogens, Climate Change, and Perinatal Health
Moderated by: Krithika Lingappan, MD, PhD
11:00 – 11:15 am
Questions and Answers
11:15 – 11:35 am
PRS-PSANZ Mont Liggins Early Career Award Speaker: Lindsay Zhou, MD
Feasibility and Safety of Autologous Cord Blood-Derived Cell Therapy in Extremely Preterm Infants: the CordSaFe Study
Moderated by: Laura Goetzl, MD
11:35 – 11:45 am
Questions and Answers
11:45 – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
Location: Symphony B
Afternoon Session – Location: Symphony A
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Business Meeting
2:00 – 2:20 pm
Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Early Career Speaker: Sean M. Cullen, MD, PhD
The Role of KHDC3 & Small RNAs in the Epigenetic Inheritance of Obesity & Metabolic Disease
Moderated by: Tina Findley, MD
2:20 – 2:25 pm
Questions and Answers
2:25 – 2:45 pm
Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Early Career Speaker: Rahul D’Mello, MD, PhD
A Novel MicroRNA-Mediated Mechanism for Placental Resistance to Viral Infections
Moderated by: Amy Valent, DO
2:45 – 2:50 pm
Questions and Answers
2:50 – 3:10 pm
Burroughs Wellcome Fund PRS Early Career Speaker: Valene Garr Barry, PhD
A Precision Nutrition Approach to Disparities in Fetal Growth Restriction
Moderated by: Jessica Bradshaw, PhD
3:10 – 3:15 pm
Questions and Answers
3:45 – 5:00 pm
PRS Team Building Activity
7:00 pm
Dinner
Location: Symphony B
Sunday, September 15, 2024
7:00 – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Location: Symphony B
Morning Session – Location: Symphony A
8:00 – 8:45 am
March of Dimes Speaker: Blair Wylie, MD, MPH
Climate Change as a Multiplier of Perinatal Disparities: An Opportunity for Epidemiologists and Lab Scientists to Collaborate
Moderated by: Andrea Edlow, MD
8:45 – 9:00 am
Questions and Answers
9:00 – 9:40 am
NIH/NIEHS Speaker:
Thaddeus Schug, PhD
Environmental Exposures and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
NIH/NICHD Speaker: Andrew Wolfe, PhD
Ins and Outs of Peer Review
Moderated by: Steven McElroy, MD
9:40 – 9:50 am
Questions and Answers
9:50 – 10:00 am
Break
10:00 – 10:45 am
Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition Speaker: Kartik Shankar, PhD
The Nexus of Heat Stress and Maternal Malnutrition: A Hot Topic for Newborn Vulnerability
Moderated by: Kristen Boyle, PhD
10:45 – 11:00 am
Questions and Answers
11:00 – 11:45 am
PRS Member Speaker:
Laura Goetzl, MD
Untangling the In-Utero Effects of Cannabis Exposure on the Fetal Brain
Moderated by: Paul Rozance, MD
11:45 – 12:00 pm
Questions and Answers
12:00 pm
Closing remarks, Adjournment, Lunch (on your own)
2024 Leadership
| President | Irina Buhimschi, MD |
| Secretary/Treasurer | Laura Goetzl, MD, MPH |
| President Elect | Paul Rozance, MD |
| Past President | Sonnet Jonker, PhD |
| Basic Science | Kristen Boyle, PhD Stella Goulopoulou, PhD, MS |
| Obstetrics | Karin Fox, MD, M Ed Jamie Lo, MD, MCR |
| Pediatrics | Krithika Lingappan, MD, PhD, MS Misty Good, MD, MS |
| Diversity & Inclusion | Courtney Townsel, MD, MSC |
| Associate Member Representative | Elizabeth Enninga, PhD |
| Membership Committee Chair | Steven McElroy, MD |
| Director of Pre-Meeting Young Investigator Grant Writing Workshop | Lisa Joss Moore, PhD |
