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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

 

 

6:00 AM – 7:15 AM

Teratology Society XXVIII Annual Volleyball Game

   
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM 2010 Program Committee Meeting
   
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM F. Clarke Fraser Award Committee Meeting
   

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Registration

 

 

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

Coffee and Breakfast

 

 

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Joint TS/NBTS State of the Art Lecture 3
Monkey Models for Studies of Maternal and Child Health: When and Why?

 

Chairperson: Kimberly Grant, University of Washington

 

Speaker: Deborah C. Rice, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention

   
8:00 AM – 12:15 PM Joint TS/OTIS Pregnancy Registry Workshop Part 2
 

Chairpersons: Karen Feibus, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Diego Wyszynski, Amgen

   
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM Pregnancy Exposure Registries in Resource Limited Settings in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Speaker: Melba Gomes, World Health Organization
   
8:20 AM – 8:40 AM When Is It Time to Close a Pregnancy Registry
Speaker: Jan Cragan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   
8:40 AM – 9:00 AM Signal Detection Rules across Pregnancy Registries: Do They Make Sense?
Speaker: Deborah Covington, Kendle International
   
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM The Decision-Making Process during Pregnancy: Impact on Pregnancy Registries
Speakers: Sara Eggers, Decision Partners
   
9:20 AM – 11:15 AM Platform Session
   

9:20 AM – 9:35 AM

Pregnancy Outcomes from the Pregnancy Registry for Gardasil® (Human Papillomavirus types 6/11/16/18 vaccine)

 

Dana A, Buchanan KM, Goss MA, Seminack MM, Shields K, Haupt RM. Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, United States.

   

9:35 AM – 9:50 AM

Using Pregnancy Registries to Estimate Spontaneous Abortion Rates

 

Roberts S1, Albano J2, McKain L2, Covington D2. 1University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC, United States, 2Kendle International, Inc., Wilmington, NC, United States.

   

9:50 AM – 10:05 AM

Evaluation of Pregnancy Exposure Registries for Pharmaceuticals

 

Cummins SK. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Office of New Drugs Immediate Office, Pediatric and Maternal Health Staff, Silver Spring, MD, United States.

   

10:05 AM – 10:20 AM

National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry (NTPR): Outcomes of Pregnancies in Female Transplant Recipients

 

Carll M1, Coscia LA1, Constantinescu S2, Armenti VT1. 1Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

   

10:20 AM – 10:30 AM

Discussion

   
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Warkany Tea/Break
   
11: 00 AM – 11:15 AM Comparative Safety of Some Anticonvulsant Polytherapies during Pregnancy
Holmes LB1, Smith CR1, Shen A1, Mittendorf R3, Hernandez-Diaz S2. 1MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, United States, 2Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States, 3Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States.
   
11:15 AM – 11:35 AM Steps toward a National Call Center for Pregnancy Registries
Speakers: Karen Feibus, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Diego Wyszynski, Amgen
   
11:35 AM – 11:55 PM How to Design a Pregnancy Registry for a Suspected Human Teratogen
Speaker: Sonja Rasmussen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   
11:55 PM – 12:15 PM Panel Discussion
   

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

MTA/MARTA Symposium

 

Non-Human Primates as Preclinical Models for Toxicity Evaluation

 

Chairpersons: Mildred Christian, Argus International, Inc. and Ali S. Faqi, MPI Research

 

 

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM

Introduction

 

 

9:10 AM – 9:45 AM

The Cynomolgus Monkey as a Preclinical Model for Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity Evaluation

 

Speaker: Gerhard Weinbauer, Covance Laboratories

 

 

9:45 AM – 10:20 AM

The African Green Monkey Held in Social Colonies as a Model: Mating, Fertility, Gestation and Ultrasound Assessment of Pregnancy Outcomes

 

Speaker: D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., Yale University and RxGen, Inc.

 

 

10:20 AM – 10:30 AM

Discussion and Conclusions

 

 

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Warkany Tea

 

 

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Public Affairs Committee Symposium

 

To Treat, or Not, During Pregnancy?

 

Chairpersons: Public Affairs Committee Chairperson, Patricia Bittner, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Cecilia A. Lyons Gaffaney, Obstetrix Medical Group

 

 

11:00 AM – 11:05 AM

Introduction

Speaker: Public Affairs Committee Chairperson, Patricia Bittner, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

 

 

11:05 AM – 11:40 AM

Placental Transfer of Drugs and Infectious Agents

 

Speaker: Richard Miller, University of Rochester

 

 

11:40 AM – 12:20 PM

Cytomegalovirus and Toxoplasmosis in Modern Obstetrics: Diagnosis, Management and Pregnancy Outcomes

 

Speaker: Jeanne Sheffield, Southwestern University

 

 

12:20 PM – 12:55 PM

SSRIs: To Treat or Not to Treat

 

Speaker: Asher Ornoy, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School

 

 

12:55 PM – 1:00 PM

Conclusions

 

Speaker: Cecilia A. Lyons Gaffaney, Obstetrix Medical Group

 

 

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Web Site Committee Meeting
   

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch – on your own

 

 

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Wiley-Blackwell Symposium

 

Gene Regulatory Networks in Developmental Biology and Computational Toxicology

 

Chairpersons: Publications Committee Chair, Elaine Z. Francis and Thomas Knudsen, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

2:00 PM – 2:05 PM

Introduction

 

Speaker: Publications Committee Chairperson, Elaine Z. Francis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM

Applications of Computational Toxicology to the Understanding of Risk Developmental Toxicity

 

Speaker: Robert J. Kavlock, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

2:25 PM – 2:50 PM

Gene Regulatory Interactions Mediating Neural Crest Formation

 

Speaker: Marianne Bronner-Fraser, California Institute of Technology

 

 

2:50 PM – 3:15 PM

Chemical Perturbations of Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks: Sea Urchin Model

 

Speaker: Michael D. Collins, UCLA School of Public Health and California Institute of Technology

 

 

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM

Modeling Toxicity Pathways Using Integrative Genomics and Systems Biology: Focus on Nephrogenesis

 

Speaker: Ivo Teneng, University of Louisville

 

 

3:40 PM – 4:05 PM

Identifying Toxicity Pathways with ToxCast High-Throughput Screening and Applications to Predicting Developmental Toxicity

 

Speaker: David J. Dix, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

4:05 PM – 4:30 PM

Gene Regulatory Networks and Computational Toxicology: Challenges for Regulatory Toxicology and Legislation

 

Speaker: Aldert H. Piersma, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven

 

 

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Business Meeting and Reports From BDR Editors

 

 

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Reception

   

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Reception and Banquet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




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