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Message from the President
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to attend the 50th Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society, June 26-30, 2010, at the Marriott Louisville Downtown in Louisville, KY. This milestone anniversary meeting provides a unique opportunity to celebrate the significant scientific achievements of our members during the past 50 years and to construct the blocks needed to build the future we want to see for the next 50. The Program Committee, chaired by John Rogers, have put together a great program based on the theme "Healthy Lifestyles for Parents and Children". Cutting edge developments in using high tech biology and informatics for assessment of risk to human development are featured; sessions on maternal nutrition, developmental psychiatry, children’s health are included. Once again, we are pleased to offer joint sessions and a joint registration fee to maximize interactions with our sister societies, NBTS, and OTIS. Reduced registration rates have been established to assist Emeritus members to attend both the meeting and the Education Courses; your continued participation in the Annual Meeting is important to us.
Our Annual Meeting provides us with the opportunity to promote our shared vision and scientific identity as researchers focused on the causes, manifestations, intervention and prevention of birth defects, both structural and functional. It also is an expression of our scientific diversity, as a Society of fellow clinicians, scientists and science policy regulators, from academic, industrial, and government sectors. There is no better occasion to learn about the latest scientific research in teratology, to interact with scientists whom you have not yet met, and to network with old friends and colleagues. I urge all of you to join us for this special event.
Sincerely
President
Barbara F. Hales
Why Attend the 2010 Teratology Society Meeting?
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society will be held June 26-30, 2010, in Louisville, Kentucky. The theme for the 2010 meeting is “Healthy Lifestyles for Parents and Children.” The meeting will start off on Saturday with the Continuing Education Course, which will be on Drug Disposition and Teratogenesis. This promises to be a top-notch course, with up-to-date lectures to be delivered by many prominent members of the Society. Chair Louise Winn and the rest of the Education Committee have worked hard to put together this excellent course. The morning session will cover the prenatal period and the afternoon session will cover the postnatal period. The Education Committee has also put together two lectures for the Sunrise Mini Course, “Imaging Tools for Structural and Functional Teratogenesis Analyses,” on Tuesday morning. The scientific program for the main meeting will feature sessions on maternal nutrition, use of herbal supplements in pregnancy, developmental psychiatry, children’s health, and cutting edge developments in using high tech biology and informatics for assessment of risk to human development. To celebrate the work of the Society and advancements in the field over the past 50 years, other sessions will combine an historical retrospective with cutting edge developments. A Symposium on thalidomide will review its tragic history and current efforts to understand its biological mechanisms. The Robert L. Brent Lecture will be on radiation during pregnancy, including a review of the 60 year report on A-bomb survivors, experimental work in animals, and current approaches to minimizing radiation exposures while maintaining diagnostic efficacy. The Publications Committee has put together an exciting session entitled: “The Teratology Society – Then and Now”, which will compare the state of the field and our efforts in the early decades of the Society to where we are today, celebrating the many advancements to which we have contributed. The two poster sessions will be held on Monday evening and Tuesday beginning at Noon. The meeting will conclude on Wednesday night with the banquet.
The Annual Meeting provides a place and time to catch up with colleagues, make new friends, network, and indulge in discussions from philosophical to practical with established experts in the field, new researchers, and students. It is also a place and time to promote and express our scientific diversity as a Society of fellow clinicians, scientists and science policy regulators from academic, industrial, and government sectors. Register early and save.
The meeting will be held at the Marriott Louisville Downtown, in the heart of historic downtown Louisville next to its bustling new Fourth Street Live district. A reduced sleeping room rate of $150 has been obtained at the Marriott Louisville Downtown.
Emeritus members are encouraged to attend the meeting and the Education Courses. Reduced registration rates have been established for Emeritus members of the Teratology Society to participate in the Annual Meeting. To qualify for this rate you must be an approved Emeritus Member of the Teratology Society.
We applaud the 2010 Program and Education Committees for preparing an outstanding meeting. Join us in Louisville as we celebrate 50 years of history and begin planning for 50 more.
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