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 Speaker
Julie Baker, PhD
Understanding Pregnancy Through the Eyes of Evolution
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 Speaker Series
Details coming soon
9:00 – 9:45 am
NIH – NICHD Speaker
Karen Young, MD
Disrupted Placenta-Lung Crosstalk: Role in the Development of BPD and PH
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
10:50 – 10:55 am
Questions and Answers
10:55 – 11:15 am
Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator Speaker 1
Speaker TBD
11:15 – 11:20 am
Questions and Answers
11:30 – 1230 pm
Lunch Buffet
Location: Mountain View Restaurant
Afternoon Session – Location: Colorado Ballroom
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Business Meeting
1:30 – 1:50 pm
Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator Speaker 2
Speaker TBD
1:50 – 1:55 pm
Questions and Answers
1:55 – 2:15 pm
Mead Johnson Nutrition PRS Young Investigator Speaker 3
Speaker TBD
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
Location: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
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
8:45 – 9:00 am
Questions and Answers
9:00 – 9:45 am
March of Dimes Speaker
Carolyn Coyne, PhD
Placental Organoids as Models of Teratogenic Viral Infections
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
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
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 |