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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

 

 

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration

 

 

6:30 AM – 7:00 AM

Sunrise Mini Course Coffee and Breakfast

 

 

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Sunrise Mini Course

 

The Use of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Screening in Diagnosis and Treatment

 

(Separate registration required)

 

 

Organized by the Education Committee, Chairperson, Tacey E. White, GlaxoSmithKline

 

 

7:00 AM – 7:45 AM

The Identification of SNPs That Predispose to Birth Defects, and Their Relation to Environmental Factors

 

Speaker: A. Steven Whitehead, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

7:45 AM – 8:30 AM

International HapMap Project: The Use of SNP Screening to Identify Pharmacogenetic Determinants of Drug Response

 

Speaker: Terreira S. Jones, University of Tennessee, Memphis and St. Jude’s Hospital

 

 

7:45 AM – 8:15 AM

Coffee and Breakfast

 

 

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

State-of-the-Art Lecture 2: Environment and Child Health

 

Chairperson: Elaine Faustman, University of Washington

 

Speaker: Lizbeth Lopez Carrillo, Nacional Institute of Public Health, Mexico

 

 

9:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Joint TS/NBTS/OTIS Symposium

 

Global Issues in Maternal and Child Health

 

Chairs: Gary Kimmel and Carole Kimmel, Private Consultants

 

 

9:30 AM – 9:35 AM

Introduction

 

 

9:35 AM – 10:10 AM

HIV and Perinatal Transmission

 

Speaker: Clemente Diaz, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

 

 

10:10 AM – 10:45 AM

Environmental Disasters and Children's Health

 

Speaker: Phil Landrigan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 

 

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM – 11:35 AM

Maternal and Child Nutrition: Long Term Impacts on Disease in Low and Middle Income Countries

 

Speaker: Linda S. Adair, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

 

11:35 AM – 12:10 PM

Treating Severe Malaria with Pre-Referral Artesunate Saves Lives and Prevents CNS Damage

 

Speaker: Melba Gomes, World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland

 

 

12:10 PM – 12:30 PM

Conclusions

 

 

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch Box Session 2

 

Human Teratogens: The Year in Review

 

Chairperson: Karen Filkins

 

Speaker: Melissa Tassinari, Pfizer Inc.

 

 

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Platform Session 4
Congenital Heart Malformations: From Epidemiology to Mechanisms and Testing Techniques

 

Chairpersons: John M. Graham, Jr., Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Helen Badham, Queen’s University

   

1:30 PM–1:45 PM

Early-Pregnancy Opioid Analgesic Treatment and Risk for Congenital Heart Defects

 

Broussard CS1, Rasmussen SA1, Reefhuis J1, Friedman JM2, Jann MW3, Honein MA1. 1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3Mercer University, Atlanta, GA, United States.

   

1:45 PM–2:00 PM

Maternal Use of Bupropion and Risk for Congenital Heart Defects

 

Alwan S1, Botto LD2, Correa A3, Rasmussen SA3, Reefhuis J3, Friedman JM1. 1Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 3National Center on Birth Defects and Development Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States.

   

2:00 PM–2:15 PM

Risk of Malformations in Infants of Military and Employed Civilian Women

 

Li T1, Cange CW1,2. 1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, 2Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.

   

2:15 PM–2:30 PM

Micro-Bubble Contrast High Frequency Ultrasound Imaging of the Chick Embryo Cardiovascular System

 

Schellpfeffer MA, Kolesari GL. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.

   

2:30 PM–2:45 PM

Are Asthmatic Women More at Risk of Cardiac Malformations, Limb Malformations and Cleft Lip and/or Palate Than Non-Asthmatic Women?

 

Blais L, Kettani F, Forget A. Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada.

   

2:45 PM–3:00 PM

Role of HIF1 Pathways in Diabetic Embryopathy

 

Pavlinkova G1, Kappen C2, Bohuslavova R1, Salbaum M2. 1Institute of Biotechnology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States.

   

3:00 PM–3:15 PM

Development of an In Vitro Technique to Use Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (mESC) in Evaluating Effects of Xenobiotics

 

Barrier M1, Jeffay S1, Nichols HP1, Slentz-Kesler K2, Hunter ES1. 1US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, 2Almac Diagnostics, Durham, NC, United States.

   

3:15 PM–3:30 PM

Cardiovascular Defects in Mouse Embryos Lacking tgfbr2 in Cells Expressing SM22α

  Washington IM, Sesti C, Jaffe M, Frutkin A, Chin MT, Dichek D. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.

 

 

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Break

 

 

3:45 PM – 5:45 PM

ILSI/HESI Symposium

 

Maternal Toxicity and Its Impact on Study Design and Data Interpretation

 

Chairpersons: James Kim, ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute and Bruce K. Beyer, sanofi-aventis

 

 

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Overview and Background

 

Speaker: Ronald D. Hood, Ronald D. Hood and Associates

 

 

4:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Exaggerated Pharmacology Versus True Toxicity, Part 1

 

Speaker: Bengt Danielsson, PharmaNet Services GmbH

 

 

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM

Exaggerated Pharmacology Versus True Toxicity, Part 2

 

Speaker: Meredith S. Rocca, Amgen

 

 

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM

Relationships of Maternal and Fetal Weight Changes in Developmental Toxicology Bioassays

 

Speaker: Neil Chernoff, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Regulatory Perspectives and Case Studies

 

Speaker: Wafa Harrouk, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

 

 

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

Round Table Discussion

 

 

4:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Joint TS/OTIS Pregnancy Registry Workshop Part 1

  Chairpersons: Christina D. Chambers, University of California, San Diego and Lewis B. Holmes, MassGeneral Hospital For Children
   
4:45 PM – 4:50 PM

Introduction
Speaker: Lewis B. Holmes, MassGeneral Hospital for Children

   
4:50 PM – 5:05 PM Variability across Current Pregnancy Registry Designs: Impact on Interpretation of Results
Speaker: Laura McKain, Kendle International
   
5:05 PM – 5:25 PM Sources of Bias in Pregnancy Registries
Speaker: Gideon Koren, The Hospital For Sick Children
   
5:25 PM – 5:45 PM Retrospective Versus Prospective Registry Designs: A Place for Both
Speakers: Vince Armenti, National Transplant Registry and the Neoral Pregnancy Registry for Psoriasis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
   
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM Panel Discussion
   
6:00 PM - 7:45 PM Poster Session (Located in the Exhibit Hall)
   

5:45 PM – 7:45 PM

TS/NBTS Joint Poster Session and Exhibits Open

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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