Scientific Programme
14-16 May 2008
Wednesday
14 May 2008
Registration
4-6pm
North Wing
St Bartholomew’s Hospital
West Smithfield
EC1A 7BE,
London, UK
Thursday
15 May 2008
Robin Brook Centre
Registration and coffee
8.30-9.30am
Welcome and introduction
9.30am
Professor O Djahanbakhch
Session 1: PGD / PGS
9.40am
Chair: Professor IJ Jacobs
Professor O Djahanbakhch
Reproductive medicine in the era of the personal genome
- Professor A Handyside
Clinical application of PGD
and the origins of
embryonic aneuploidy
- Professor J Delhanty
Discussion
Coffee break - The Great Hall
11-11.30am
Session 2: Male Infertility
11.30am
Chair: Dr E Garalejic
Dr N Perks
The fetal programming window for 'making a male'; origin of the commonest male reproductive disorders
- Professor RM Sharpe
Advances in male infertility
- Professor N McClure
Discussion
Lunch and Poster viewing - The Great Hall
12.30-2pm
Keynote Lecture:
2pm
Therapeutic and research potential of Human Stem Cells
- Professor Stephen Minger
Session 3: Selected Presentations
2.40pm
Chair: Dr M Setchell
Professor O Kadayifci
Dr L Sabatini
Selected Presentations
Discussion
Coffee break - The Great Hall
3.30-4pm
Session 4: Pelvic causes
of infertility
4.30pm
Chair: Dr Y Khalaf
Dr CJ Davis
Fibroids, how should we treat them?
- Dr AM Lower
Is endometriosis a genital endocrinological disease with extragenital lesions?
- Dr H Verhoeven
Diagnosis and surgical treatment of bowel endometriosis
- Dr V Remorgida
Discussion
Conference Dinner - The Great Hall
7pm
Insula Tiberina et amara lento tempera risu: a history of Barts and the Royal London
- Dr Trevor Beedham
Friday
16 May 2008
Session 5: Reprod. Endocrinology
9am
Chair: Dr M Savic
Dr A Zosmer
Disorder of folliculogenesis
in PCOS
- Dr M Das
Aetiology of PCOS – genetic and environmental factors
- Professor S Franks
Management of PCOS
- Professor AH Balen
Endoscopic management
of PCOS prior to ART
- Dr A Watrelot
Discussion
Coffee break - The Great Hall
11-11.30am
Session 6: Current topics
in infertility
11:30am
Chair: Dr G Allahbadia
Dr A Tozer
Is there an epidemic
of infertility?
- Professor S Bhattacharya
The Ethics of reproductive medicine: private choice or public interest?
- Dr G Lockwood
Discussion
Lunch and Poster viewing - The Great Hall
12.30-2pm
Keynote Lecture
2pm
ART is now global or is it?
- Professor Ian Cooke
Session 7: Fertility management in cancer patients
2.45pm
Chair: Dr T Al Shawaf
Dr K Reynold
Ovarian cryopreservation
- Dr A Rutherford
Fertility sparing surgery
for cervical cancer
- Professor JH Shepherd
Discussion
Coffee break - The Great Hall
3.30-4pm
Session 8: Miscarriage
and Implantation failure
4pm
Chair: Dr Z Sretenovic
Dr HC Verhoeven
Dr L Sabatini
Fallopian tube motility and paracrine function - does it affect fertility?
- Dr R Lyons
The Science of implantation and miscarriage
- Professor E Jauniaux
Coagulation defects in reproductive medicine:
can we prevent miscarriage?
- Professor L Regan
Discussion
Closing remarks
5pm
Professor O Djahanbakhch