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Teratology Society 49th Annual Meeting
Gene-Environment Interactions: Impact on Maternal and Child Health
Continuing Medical Education Program

This event is approved for up to 27.5 credits by the Centre for Continuing Medical Education (“CME”). The Centre for CME, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools and through the (CACMS) is accredited to award AMA PRA category 1 credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

The Centre for CME, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University designates this activity for Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physicians Recognition Award up to the maximum number of credit hours noted above. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent at the educational activity.

If you wish to participate in the CME Program you must Register for the Teratology Society Annual Meeting and inform the headquarters office of your participation. All participants are required to provide their full name, license number, and their complete contact information. Click here to access online CME Info Form. CME Program participants will also be required to sign in on the daily sign in sheets and designate the credit type and credit quantity. Failure to do this will make the participant ineligible to receive CME credits.

For more information about the CME Program and CME credits please contact Becca Isakower at bisakower@teratology.org.

CME Program 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009

8:30 AM – 11:45 PM	Education Course Session 1: Epigenetic Mechanisms
	(Separate registration required) Organized by the Education Committee
8:30 AM-9:15 AM	Chromatin Structure and Histone Modifications
	Speaker: Sarah Kimmins, McGill University

9:15 AM-10:00 AM	DNA Methylation
	Speaker: Jacquetta M. Trasler, McGill University

10:00 AM-10:15 AM	Break

10:15 AM-11:00 AM	Imprinting and X-Inactivation
	Speaker: Martha Susiarjo, University of Pennsylvania Medical School

11:00 AM-11:45 AM	Epigenetics and the Developmental Origins Hypothesis
	Speaker: Robert A. Waterland, Baylor College of Medicine

1:45 PM – 5:30 PM	Education Course
	Session 2: Adult Disease Outcomes of Developmental Programming
	(Separate registration required) Organized by the Education Committee
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM	Session 2 Introduction: Historical Perspectives of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (Barker Hypothesis, Thrifty Phenotype, Plasticity)
	Speaker: Jerry J. Heindel, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

2:15 PM – 3:00 PM	Metabolic Syndrome (Obesity, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia)
	Speaker: Laura A. Cox, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM	Break

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM	Neurobehavioral / Psychiatric Function
	Speaker: Ezra S. Susser, Columbia University

4:45 PM – 5:30 PM	Cancer
	Speaker: Gail S. Prins, University of Illinois, Chicago

Sunday, June 28, 2009

8:15 AM – 9:15 AM	Josef Warkany Lecture
	Clinical Teratology: In Bed With the Devil?
	Speaker: Jan M. Friedman, University of British Columbia

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM	Joint TS/OTIS Lunch Box Session 1
	Brent Lecture: Use of Natural Herbal Products During Pregnancy
	Chairperson: Janee Van Waes, University of Nebraska
	Speaker: Gideon Koren, Hospital for Sick Children

3:30 PM – 6:00 PM	March of Dimes Symposium Prematurity: A Clinical Dilemma
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM	Introduction
	Speaker: Michael Katz, March of Dimes

3:40 PM – 4:15 PM	Global Prevalence and Opportunities for Intervention in Middle- and Low-Income Countries
	Speaker: Christopher P. Howson, March of Dimes

4:15 PM – 4:25 PM	Risk for Increase Preterm Births in Puerto Rico: Not the Usual Suspects
	Speaker: Jose F. Cordero, University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health

4:25 PM – 4:55 PM	Role of Infection and Inflammation in Preterm Labor and Fetal Injury
	Speaker: Roberto Romero, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

4:55 PM – 5:25 PM	Genetic and Genomic Analysis of Preterm Birth
	Speaker: Louis J. Muglia, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

5:25 PM – 5:55 PM	Pre-Term Labor: Signals and Mechanisms Revealed in Animal Models
	Speaker: Stephen J. Lye, Samuel Lunenfield Research Institute

5:55 PM – 6:00 PM	Conclusions

Monday, June 29, 2009

8:00 AM –9:00 AM	State of the Art Lecture 1: Fetal Origins of Adult Disease
	Speaker: Laura A. Cox, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

9:00 AM – 11:45 AM	Joint TS/OTIS Maternal Obesity and Pregnancy Symposium
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM	Introduction

9:05 AM – 9:40 AM	Prevalence of Maternal Obesity and Pregnancy Complications
	Speaker: Sonja A Rasmussen, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

9:40 AM – 10:15 AM	The Nutritional Environment during the Suckling Period Determines the Capacity for Adipose Tissue Expansion in Adult Mice
	Speaker: Leslie P. Kozak, Pennington Biomedical Research Center

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM	Break

10:30 AM – 11:05 AM	Developmental Epigenetics of the Hypothalamus
	Speaker: Robert A. Waterland, Baylor College of Medicine

11:05 AM – 11:40 AM	Management of the Obese Gravida: Present and Future
	Speaker: Brian J. Koos, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

11:40 AM – 11:45 AM	Conclusions

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM	Autism: Genes and the Environment Symposium
3:30 PM – 3:35 PM	Introduction

3:35 PM – 4:00 PM	Overview of the Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Approaches to Finding Its Causes
	Speaker: Craig J. Newschaffer, Drexel University School of Public Health

4:00 PM – 4:25 PM	The Autisms: Disorders of the Developing Brain With Public Health Implications
	Speaker: Edwin Trevathan, National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities, CDC

4:25 PM – 4:50 PM	"Pregnancy/Birth” and “Baby Sib” Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorders
	Speaker: Ezra S. Susser, Columbia University

4:50 PM – 5:15 PM	Genetic Risk Factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Gene/Environment Interaction
	Speaker: Christopher J. Stodgell, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

5:15 PM - 5:30 PM	Question/Answer – Panel Discussion

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Sunrise Mini Course: The Use of Simple Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Screening in Diagnosis and Treatment
	(Separate registration required)
7:00 AM – 7:45 AM	The Identification of SNPs That Predispose to Birth Defects, and Their Relation to Environmental Factors
	Speaker: A. Steven Whitehead, University of Pennsylvania

7:45 AM – 8:30 AM	International HapMap Project: The Use of SNP Screening to Identify Pharmacogenetic Determinants of Drug Response
	Speaker: Terreira S. Jones, University of Tennessee, Memphis and St. Jude’s Hospital

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM	State of the Art Lecture 2: Environment and Child Health
	Speaker: Lizbeth Lopez Carrillo, Nacional Institute of Public Health, Mexico

9:30 AM – 12:15 PM	Joint TS/NBTS/OTIS Symposium Global Issues in Maternal and Child Heath
9:30 AM – 9:35 AM	Introduction

9:35 AM – 10:10 AM	HIV and Perinatal Transmission
	Speaker: Clemente Diaz, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

10:10 AM – 10:45 AM	Environmental Disasters and Children's Health
	Speaker: Phil Landrigan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

10:45 AM – 11:00 AM	Break

11:00 AM – 11:35 AM	Maternal and Child Nutrition: Long Term Impact on Disease in Low and Middle Income Countries
	Speaker: Linda S. Adair, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

11:35 AM – 12:10 PM	Treating Severe Malaria with Pre-Referral Artesunate Saves Lives and Prevents CNS Damage
	Speaker: Melba Gomes, World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland

12:10 PM – 12:15 PM	Conclusions

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM	ILSI/HESI Symposium
	Maternal Toxicity and Its Impact on Study Design and Data Interpretation
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM	Relationships of Maternal and Fetal Weight Changes in Developmental Toxicology Bioassays
	Speaker: Neil Chernoff, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM	Regulatory Perspectives and Case Studies
	Speaker: Wafa Harrouk, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM	Round Table Discussion

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

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

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM	Public Affairs Committee Symposium
	To Treat, or Not, During Pregnancy?
11:00 AM – 11:05 AM	Introduction
	Speaker: Public Affairs Committee Chair, 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

2:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Wiley-Blackwell Symposium
	Gene Regulatory Networks in Developmental Biology and Computational Toxicology
2:00 PM – 2:05 PM	Introduction
	Speaker: Publications Committee Chair, 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: Kenneth S. Ramos, University of Louisville

3:40 PM – 4:05 PM	Identifying Toxicity Pathways with 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