45th Annual Meeting
September 12 – 14, 2014
Monterey, California
Welcome PRS President Catalin Buhimschi, MD
Liley Lectureship and Award Winner
Jennifer Howse, PhD, President, March of Dimes – Challenges in Perinatal Research: Creating a Global Scientific Agenda
March of Dimes Speaker
Carl P. Weiner, MD –Plasma Cell Free RNAs – A Language of Health and Disease
Abbott Nutrition Speaker
Christopher Breuer, MD –The Development of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Use in Congenital Heart Surgery
Early Career Investigator Speakers
Jeanette Carpenter, MD –Antenatal Steroids and Programming of Neonatal Immune Cells
Joann Romano-Keeler, MD – Role of the Mucosal Microbiome in Shaping Fetal and Neonatal Health
Vladimir Vargas, PhD –Uteroplacental Production Of Leptin and Adiponectin: Local Effects On Control of Uterine Blood Flows and Angiogenesis During Late Pregnancy
Blair Dodson, PhD – The Vascular Biomechanics of the Newborn in Intrauterine Growth Restriction – Setting the Stage for Cardiovascular Disease
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Speaker
Lisa Joss-Moore, PhD –Lipids Epigenetics and Lung Outcomes in Preterm Lambs
Mead Johnson Nutrition Speaker
Sean W. Limesand, PhD – Fetal Adaptations to Placental Insufficiency: A Role for Catecholamines
NICHD Speaker
William E. Rainey, PhD – Adrenarche: Coming of Age in the Era of Genomics and Metabolomics
Invited Member Speaker
Gautam Chaudhuri, MD, PhD – The Endothelium: More Secrets Unraveled
Leadership 2014
President – Catalin Buhimschi, MD
Secretary-Treasurer – Ian M. Bird, PhD