Healthy Mothers for Healthy Babies

7:30AM - 8:00AM: Coffee, Refreshments & Registration

8:00AM - 8:15AM: Opening Remarks

• Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE,  Director, Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute
• Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Stanford Maternal and Child Health Institute

8:15AM - 9:55AM: Session 1
Maternal-Fetal Correlates of Human Development
Moderator: Christina Tise, MD, PhD

• Ruth Lathi, MD, Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility), Stanford School of Medicine
  
  
• Nima Aghaeepour, PhD, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Pediatrics (Neonatology)
  
  
• David Rowitch, MD, ScD, FMedSci, FRS, Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology) and Associate Director, Basic and Translational Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  
  
• Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD, Professor and Vice Chair, Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

9:55AM-10:55AM: Poster Session 1

10:55AM-12:35PM: Session 2
Population Biology / Epidemiology of Maternal-Fetal Development
Moderator: Ryan Christopher Padrez, MD

• Irogue Igbinosa, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine), Stanford School of Medicine
  
  
• Karl Sylvester, MD, Associate Dean Maternal Child Health (Research) and Professor, Surgery (Pediatric Surgery), Stanford School of Medicine, Director, Clinical Research Support Office, Stanford Medicine Children's Health
  
  
• Cindy Wu, PhD, Director, Program and Policy Branch, Center For Family Health, Genetic Disease Screening Program, California Department of Public Health
  
  
• Stephen Luby, MD, Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford School of Medicine

12:35PM - 1:35PM: Lunch & Poster Session 2

1:35PM - 1:50PM: MCHRI Visionary Leadership Award
Moderator: Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE
Recipient: TBN

1:50PM - 2:35PM: Session 3
Groundbreaking Research from Rising Scientists (Early Career Investigators and Trainees)
Moderator: Jonathan Litt, MD, MPH, ScD

• 5 speakers will be selected from this year's symposium abstract submissions

2:35PM - 2:50PM: Break

2:50PM - 4:30PM: Session 4
Devices and Technologies to Assess and Treat Maternal-Fetal Disease
Moderator: Kara Meister, MD, FAAP, FACS

• Tippi Mackenzie, MD, Professor of Surgery, Benioff UCSF Professor of Children’s Health, Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, Co-Director, Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine, John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor of Stem Cell and Tissue Biology
  
  
• Karthik Balakrishnan, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACS, Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery), Susan B. Ford Surgeon-in-Chief, Stanford Medicine Children's Health
  
  
• Sheng Xu, PhD, Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering, University of California, San Diego
  
  
• Matteo A. Molè, PhD, Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Biology)

4:30PM: Closing Remarks
Anthony Oro, MD, PhD