2nd Annual Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute Symposium
Friday, November 15, 2019 | Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall
Speakers
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Keynote Speaker
Diana Bianchi, MD
Keynote Address: The Earlier the Better: Using Precision Medicine to Develop Fetal Treatments
Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., is the director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and head of the Prenatal Genomics and Therapy Section for the Medical Genetics Branch at NHGRI. She oversees the research on pediatric health and development, maternal health, reproductive health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and rehabilitation medicine, among other areas. Read more>>
Opening Introductions
Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; Chair of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine; Physician-In-Chief, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute; Professor, Dermatology
Cynthia J. Brandt, PhD
President and CEO, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health
Paul King
President and CEO, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Session Speakers
Session 1: Maternal and Perinatal Medicine
Leslee Subak, MD
Moderator
Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford School of Medicine
Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD
Director, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research; Professor, Medicine and Pediatrics (Allergy & Clinical Immunology)
Virginia Winn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Biology)
Session 2: MCHRI Partners Program
Mark R. Cullen, MD
Moderator
Senior Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Health Research & Policy, Stanford School of Medicine
Gary Darmstadt, MD
Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health; Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatal and Developmental Medicine)
Erin Gibson, PhD
Research Scientist, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
David Miklos, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine (Blood & Marrow Transplantation)
Avnesh Thakor, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Radiology (Pediatric Radiology)
Session 3: Early Career Investigators and Trainees
Natalia Gomez-Ospina, MD, PhD
Moderator
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Medical Genetics and Stem Cell Transplantation)
Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD
Moderator
Instructor, Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation)
Session 4: MCHRI Faculty Scholar, Pilot Grant, and Transdisciplinary Initiative Programs
Hugh O’Brodovich, MD FRCP(C)
Moderator
Arline and Pete Harman Professor of Pediatrics (Emeritus), Stanford School of Medicine, Emeritus
Jeremy Dahl, PhD
Associate Professor, Radiology (Pediatric Radiology)
Manpreet Singh, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)