
Innovative Approaches to Studying the Placenta
and Its Impact on Offspring Health”
55th Annual Meeting
September 12-14, 2025
Cheyenne Mountain Resort
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Friday, September 12, 2025
3:30 – 7:00 pm
Check-In & Registration
Location: Colorado Gallery
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Welcome Reception
Location: Grand Rivers Terrace
6:30 pm
Welcome Dinner
Location: Grand Rivers Ballroom
7:15 pm
Welcome: Paul Rozance, MD, PRS President
Location: Grand Rivers Ballroom
7:30 pm
Mead Johnson Nutrition Speaker
Julie Baker, PhD
Understanding Pregnancy Through the Eyes of Evolution
Moderator: Paul Rozance, MD
Saturday, September 13, 2025
7:00 – 7:45 am
Breakfast Buffet
Location: Mountain View Restaurant
Morning Session – Location: Colorado Ballroom
8:00 – 9:00 am
**New** PRS Associate Member Rapid-Fire Speaker Series
Moderator: Jacqueline Parchem, MD
9:00 – 9:45 am
NIH – NICHD Speaker
Karen Young, MD
Disrupted Placenta-Lung Crosstalk: Role in the Development of BPD and PH
Moderator: Arlin Blood, PhD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Questions and Answers
10:00 – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 – 10:50 am
PRS-PSANZ Mont Liggins Early Career Award Speaker
Emily Whalen, MD, PhD Candidate
Exploring Sulforaphane as a Potential Therapeutic for Preeclampsia
Moderator: Stephanie Wesolowski, PhD
10:50 – 10:55 am
Questions and Answers
10:55 – 11:15 am
NIH-Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator
Rachel Leon, MD, MSCS, PhD
Molecular and Functional Placental Signatures in Fetal Congenital Heart Disease
Moderator: Lisa Joss-Moore, PhD
11:15 – 11:20 am
Questions and Answers
11:30 – 12:30 pm
Lunch Buffet
Location: Mountain View Restaurant
Afternoon Session – Location: Colorado Ballroom
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Business Meeting
1:30 – 1:50 pm
NIH-Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator
Adam Crosland, MD/MPH, FACOG
Impact of Prenatal Substance Use Exposure on Offspring Health: Use of Translational Models of Emerging Substances
Moderator: Andrea Edlow, MD
1:50 – 1:55 pm
Questions and Answers
1:55 – 2:15 pm
NIH-Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator
Mariana Sponchiado, DVM, PhD
Swine Models Using Gene Editing for the Study of Reproduction
Moderator: Andrea Edlow, MD
2:15 – 2:20 pm
Questions and Answers
2:30 pm
Load buses for PRS Group Outing
3:00 – 9:00 pm
PRS Team Building Activity and Evening Event
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Dinner and PRS Member Speaker
Terry Morgan, MD, PhD
Why do Spiral Arteries Spiral – Saga of the Faucet and the Hose
Moderator: Courtney Townsel, MD
Sunday, September 14, 2025
7:00 – 7:45 am
Breakfast Buffet
Location: Mountain View Restaurant
Morning Session – Location: Colorado Ballroom
8:00 – 8:45 am
Liley Lecture
Theresa Powell, PhD
Maternal-Placental-Fetal Cross Communication: How Metabolic Signals, Nutrients and Exosomes Determine Pregnancy Outcomes and Life-long Health for Parent and Child
Moderator: Paul Rozance, MD
8:45 – 9:00 am
Questions and Answers
9:00 – 9:45 am
PRS Member Speaker
Sarah Cilvik, MD, PhD
Longitudinal In Vivo Assessment of Placental Structure and Function: A Translational Nonhuman Primate Model to Evaluate Pregnancy Health and Developmental Origins of Cardiometabolic Diseases
Moderator: Irina Buhimschi, MD
9:45 – 10:00 am
Questions and Answers
10:00 – 10:30 am
Break
10:30 – 11:15 am
University of Colorado Speaker
Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, PhD
The Placenta: Key Determinant of Offspring and Maternal Metabolic Physiology
Moderator: Sean Limesand, PhD
11:15 – 11:30 am
Questions and Answers
11:30a – 12:15 pm
PRS Member Speaker
Teri Hernandez, PhD, RN
The Carbohydrate Threshold in Pregnancy: Maternal Fuels, Placental Glucose, and Offspring Metabolic Flexibility
Moderator: Stephanie Wesolowski, PhD
12:15 – 12:30 pm
Questions and Answers
12:30 pm
Closing Remarks. Adjournment
2025 Leadership
| President | Paul Rozance, MD |
| Secretary/Treasurer | Stephanie Wesołowski, PhD |
| President Elect | Sean Limesand, PhD |
| Past President | Irina Buhimschi, MD |
| Basic Science | Kristen Boyle, PhD Arlin Blood, PhD |
| Obstetrics | Karin Fox, MD, M Ed Courtney Townsel, MD, MSC |
| Pediatrics | Krithika Lingappan, MD, PhD, MS Sarah Cilvik, MD, PhD |
| Diversity & Inclusion | Jackie Parchem, MD |
| Associate Member Representative | Sarah Wernimont, MD, PhD |
| Membership Committee Chair | Krithika Lingappan, MD, PhD, MS |
| Director of Pre-Meeting Young Investigator Grant Writing Workshop | Lisa Joss-Moore, PhD |
2025 Memories
PRS Officers, 2025 President Paul Rozance, MD, (left) 2026 President Sean Limesand, PhD, (second from left) and 2025 Secretary-Treasurer Stephanie Wesolowski, PhD, (right) present Amanda Sferuzzi-Perri, PhD, (second from right) with the University of Colorado Speaker Award at the 2025 PRS Annual Meeting.
Participants and mentors from the pre-meeting PRS Young Investigator Grant Writing Workshop: (left-right): Front Row: Lisa Beatrice, RD, (Faculty, Mead Johnson Nutrition), Mariana Sponchiado, PhD, Lisa Matz, PhD, Michael Cookson, MD, Nikita S. Kalluri, MD, Emily Hamburg-Shields, MD, PhD, Emily Rosenfeld, DO, Andrea Edlow, MD, (Faculty, Workshop Assistant Director). Second Row, Paula Magnelli Mangiavacchi, PhD, Anthony Wang, MD, PhD, Maxwell Mathias, MD, Eric B. McClellan, MD, Sydney Dautel, MD, Rachel Leon, MD, PhD. Third Row: Kurt Albertine, PhD, (Faculty, Workshop Assistant Director), Lisa Joss-Moore, PhD, (Faculty, Workshop Director), Adam Crosland, MD, Emmanuel Amabebe, PhD, Matt Douglass, DO, Minhazur Sarker, MD, Nina K. Ayala, MD, Paul Rozance, MD (Faculty). Not Pictured: Robin Roychaudhuri