Agenda

DAY 1: Friday 22nd MARCH, 2019
7:45am-9:00am Registration
9:00am-9:15amm Welcome speech by MC
9:15am-9:35am Speech by Dr. Michael Fakih, Medical Director of Fakih IVF
9:35am-9:55am Surgical Pearls – Prof. Jacques Donnez
9:55am-10:15am Coffee Break
Chair persons: Dr. Amal Al Shunnar, Dr. Michael Fakih and Dr. Fady Sharara
10:15am-10:35am Techniques and results of ovarian tissue transplantation - Prof. Marie-Madeleine Dolmans
10:35am-11:15am Ovarian Stimulation Strategies for the Cancer Patient - Dr. Mitchell Rosen
11:15am-11:35am Strategies for IVF in the medically complicated patient - Prof. Scott Nelson
11:35am-11:55am How to reduce time to live birth? - Prof. Alberto Revelli
11:55am-12:15pm A new scoring system for the identification of women at risk for obstetrical hemorrhage requiring blood transfusion - Dr. Ali Alhousseini
12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch Break
Chair persons: Dr. Ahmad Hammoud, Dr. Fady Sharara and Dr. Amal Al Shunnar
1:15pm-1:35pm AMH variability within patients & Assays - Prof. Claus Yding Anderson
1:35pm-1:55pm Dysfunctional uterine bleeding & irregular cycles - Dr. Ghassan Lotfi
1:55pm-2:15pm The Duo-stimulation innovative approach - Prof. Alberto Revelli
2:15pm-2:35pm Conservative management of fibroids: the place of medical therapy - Prof. Jacques Donnez
2:35pm-2:55pm Severe male infertility: Opportunities for better treatment - Dr. Peter Schlegel
2:55pm-3:15pm Is there a role for varicocele surgery in an IVF clinic? - Dr. Rupin Shah
3:15pm-3:30pm Coffee Break
Chair persons: Dr. Amal Al Shunnar, Dr. Rupin Shah and Dr. Ahmad Hammoud
3:30pm-3:50pm PGT-A – Dr. Vitaly Kushnir
3:50pm-4:10pm Precision Preimplantation Diagnostic Testing: Toward the Elimination of Hereditary Cancers - Dr. Wael Salem
4:10p-4:30pm Fetal brain lesions due to maternal infections - Dr. Mandeep Singh
4:30pm-5:30pm A DEBATE: “Is the cesarean delivery rate low or high? Dr. Sibai thinks it is too low!! Dr. Blackwell thinks it is too high!!” - Dr. Bahaeddine Sibai and Dr Sean Blackwell
   
Workshop: Vitrification workshop on Cooper Surgical vitrification kits - Ms. Colleen Lynch and Ms. Sally Lloyd Session 1
09.00am – 09.30am Introduction to vitrification using Cooper Surgical vitrification kits - Ms. Colleen Lynch
09.30 am- 11.00am Demonstration and Hands-on with the Life Global and SAGE vitrification Kit and the Vitrifit carrier - Ms. Colleen Lynch and Ms. Sally Lloyd
Workshop: Vitrification workshop on Cooper Surgical vitrification kits - Ms. Colleen Lynch and Ms. Sally Lloyd Session 2
11.00am –11.30am Introduction to vitrification using Cooper Surgical vitrification kits - Ms. Colleen Lynch
11.30 am- 13.00pm Demonstration and Hands-on with the Life Global and SAGE vitrification Kit and the Vitrifit carrier - Ms. Colleen Lynch and Ms. Sally Lloyd
   


DAY 2: Saturday March 23rd 2019
Chair persons: Dr. Ahmad Hammoud, Dr. Fady Sharara and Dr. Mohammed Eid
9:00am-9:20am The 2018 clinical trial: “ ARRIVE trail: Expectant management versus induction of labor at 39 weeks for low-risk nulliparous women” - Dr. Sean Blackwell
9:20am-9:40am Morbidly Adherent Placenta and the management of postpartum hemorrhage: The Fairfax Hospital Experience - Prof. Alfred Khoury
9:40am-10:00am New insights into the management of chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and preeclampsia with severe features - Dr. Bahaeddine Sibai
10:00am-10:20am Prediction and prevention of preclampsia: Is this the end of preclampsia? - Dr. Mandeep Singh
10:20am-10:40am Coffee Break
Chair persons: Dr. Amal Al Shunnar, Dr. Fady Sharara and Dr. Mohammed Eid
10:40am-11:00am Social egg freezing – Dr. Vitaly Kushnir
11:00am-11:20am Microbiome in pregnancy: Placenta and Bladder - Dr. Ali Alhousseini
11:20am-11:45am The 2016 clinical trial: Late preterm antenatal corticosteroids for fetal lung maturity - Dr. Sean Blackwell
11:20am-12:05pm New concept in optimizing the luteal phase Topic – Prof. Claus Yding Anderson
12:05pm-1:05pm Lunch Break
Chair persons: Dr. Fady Sharara, Dr. Rupin Shah and Dr. Amal Al Shunnar
1:05pm-1:25pm hCG activity does it have any difference? - Prof. Nikolaos Polyzos
1:25pm-1:45pm PGD, Genomics and Policy: An international comparison - Dr. Wael Salem
1:45pm-2:05pm The association between extreme maternal obesity and suboptimal obstetric outcomes - Dr. Federico Mariona
2:05pm-2:25pm Freeze-all for all or the few - Prof. Scott Nelson
2:25pm-2:45pm Obesity in Pregnancy - Dr. Young Yoon
2:45pm-3:05pm Artificial ovary: why and how? - Prof. Marie-Madeleine Dolmans
3:05pm-3:20pm Coffee Break
Chair persons: Dr. Amal Al Shunnar, Dr. Ahmad Hammoud and Dr. Fady Sharara
3:20pm-3:40pm New management guidelines to treat obstetrical hemorrhage - Dr. Bahaeddine Sibai
3:40pm-4:00pm Advances in Genomics Testing of Embryos and Latest Evidence on Outcomes, PGTai - Dr. David Chrimes
4:00pm-4:20pm Identification and characterization of a reserve somatic cell progenitor in male and female gonads - Dr. Sue Hammoud
4:20pm-4:30pm Closing Speech