Scientific Program
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| Sunday, May 27, 2018 | |||
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| 09:00-16:00 | Fertility Preservation Hands-On Workshop Director – Dror Meirow Preregistration needed |
09:30-15:00 | Industry sponsored session Preregistration needed |
| 15:00-18:00 | Sponsored 1st Hands-on Workshop Preregistration needed |
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| 19:00 | Welcome Reception | ||
| Monday, May 28, 2018 | |||||
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| 08:30-10:30 | Session 1A: Fertility Preservation Chairs: Eitan Lunenfeld, Israel, Kamini Patel,India, Seang Lin Tan, Canada | 08:30-10:35 | Session 1B: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Chairs: Gheona Altarescu, Israel, Ariel Hourvitz, Israel, Lee Shulman, USA | 08:30-10:30 Workshop: That’s The Way We Do It | |
| 08:30-08:50 | Use of Dried Sperm in Large Mammals’ Assisted Reproduction Joseph Saragusty, Italy |
08:30-08:55 | Basic Genetic Principles for Non-Genetics Professionals Yuval Yaron, Israel |
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| 08:50-09:15 | Fully Automated Vitrification System Amir Arav, Israel |
08:55-09:20 | From Expanded Carrier Screening to PGD Nathan Treff, USA |
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| 09:15-09:40 | Frontiers in Fertility Preservation – Merging Biology and Technology Francesca Duncan, USA | 09:20-09:45 | PGD from Theory to Practice Andreas Schmutzler, Germany |
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| 09:40-10:05 | Ovarian Transplantation: Single Center Results and World registry Dror Meirow, Israel |
09:45-10:10 | Cancer Genes and Fertility Treatment: Where Oncofertility and PGD Intersect Avner Hershlag, USA | ||
| 10:05-10:30 | Creation of Artificial Testes: The State of the Art Yoni Baert, Belgium |
10:10-10:35 | Demystifying Genetics for Patients – The Role of the Internet & Social Media Ron Harman King, USA |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 11:00-13:15 | Session 2: Opening Session – Reproductive Medicine, IVF and Genetics: Past, Present and Future | ||||
| 11:00-11:05 | Welcome and Opening Note Zeev Shoham, Israel |
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| 11:05-11:20 | Greetings Michael Alper, USA, Taliah Eldar Geva, Israel, Avner Hershlag, USA |
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| 11:20-11:35 | A prelude to IVF Bruno Lunenfeld, Israel |
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| 11:35-11:50 | The Really First Step Simon Fishel, UK |
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| 11:50-12:10 | Past, Present and Future of IVF Alan DeCherney, USA |
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| 12:10-12:40 | The First IVF Child in Israel – The Fifth in the World Shlomo Mashiach, Israel & Jehoshua Dor, Israel |
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| 12:40-12:55 | Introduction of IVF to the State of Israel Joseph Schenker, Israel |
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| 12:55-13:15 | On the Shoulders of Giants: How Israel Became an “IVF Nation” Neri Laufer, Israel |
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| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | ||||
| 14:00-16:00 | Session 3A: Recombinant vs. Biosimilar Gonadotropin Chairs: Adan Nabel, Argentina, Ariel Weissman, Israel, Matan Yemini, USA |
14:00-16:05 | Session 3B: Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) Chairs: Taliah Eldar Geva, Israel, Ilan Tur-Kaspa, USA |
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Recombinant: Manuela Simoni, Italy Biosimilar: Beate Gertz, GermanyUse of a new Human rFSH with AMH as a Companion Diagnostic: Evidence from a Prospective RCT and Implementation Into Daily Clinical Practice: Stuart Lavery, UK |
14:00-14:25 | Should PGS Be Implemented into Routine IVF Practice? Raoul Orvieto, Israel | ||
| 14:25-14:50 | Non-inherited chromosomal and genomic abnormalities in human embryos and how to prevent them Santiago Munne, USA |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Breast Cancer: Non-Gonadal Effects of Gonadotropins Andrea Genazzani, Italy |
14:50-15:15 | The ASRM Committee Opinion on PGT for Aneuploidy – Our Conclusions and How We Drew Them Alan Penzias, USA |
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| 15:15-15:40 | What Causes Genomic Instability During Preimplantation Embryo Development? David Keefe, USA |
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| 15:40-16:05 | Genomics in Women’s Health that Would Encompass Prenatal, Cancer, Adult Disease Lee Shulman, USA |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | ||||
| 16:30-18:00 | Session 4A: Stem Cells; the CEO of Our Bodies Chairs: Dalit Ben Yosef, Israel, Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Israel, Gerald Schatten, USA |
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Session 4B: Optimizing Egg Yield for IVF
Chairs: Neri Laufer, Israel, Milton Leong, Hong Kong, Daniel Seidman, Israel |
| 16:30-17:00 | Human Embryonic Stem Cells – from the IVF Tube to Clinical Transplantation Benjamin Reubinoff, Israel |
16:30-17:00 | Safety in IVF: Lessons From Aviation Michael Alper, USA |
| 17:00-17:30 | Making Human Oocytes from Stem Cells Evelyn Telfer, UK |
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Norbert Gleicher, USA
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| 17:30-18:00 | Can We Stop Ovarian Aging? Helen Picton, UK |
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Improving IVF: Is There a Limit to Our Ability to Manipulate Human Biology?
Pasquale Patrizio, USA |
| Tuesday, May 29, 2018 |
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| 09:00-11:00 | Session 5A: Reproductive Surgery Chairs: Motti Goldenberg, Israel, Chen Goldschmit, Israel, Ishai Levin, Israel |
09:00-11:00 | Session 5B: Recent Developments in Genomic Science and ART Chairs: Arik Kahane, Israel, Johnny Younis, Israel |
09:00-11:00 Workshop: That’s The Way We Do It |
| 09:00-09:30 | Advanced Laparoscopy for Endometriosis-Associated Infertility Camran Nezhat, USA | 09:00-09:30 | Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Engineering Efficiencies in the Mouse Zygote Ben Davies, UK |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Optimizing Uterine Fibroid Management in the Infertile Patient Ceana Nezhat USA | 09:30-10:00 | Primordial Follicle Recruitment and Ovarian Reserve Sherman Silber, USA |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Hysteroscopy and Infertility: State of the Art Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo, Italy | 10:00-10:30 | Human Immature Oocytes Can Be Grown to Maturity In Vitro: Next Steps Towards Clinical Application Evelyn Telfer, UK | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Laparoscopic and Hysteroscopic Cesarean Niche Resection Motti Goldenberg, Israel | 10:30-11:00 | New Genes and Pathways in Ovarian Development and Maintenance – From the Clinic to the Laboratory Bench and Back David Zangen, Israel | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 11:30-13:15 | Session 6A: Uterus Transplantation Chars: Inbar Ben Shachar, Israel, Foad Azem, Israel, Sherman Silber, USA |
11:30-13:00 | Session 6B: Support the Luteal Phase and Implantation Chairs: Martha Dirnfeld, Israel, Ariel Revel, Israel, Adrian Shulman, Israel |
11:30-13:15 Sponsored 2nd Hands-on Workshop Preregistration needed |
| 11:55-12:20 | From Vision to Healthy Babies: Pernilla Dahm-Kähler, Sweden Uterus Transplantation – Lessons Learned: Tommaso Falcone, USA |
11:30-12:00 | Searching for the Optimal Vehicle and Dose of Progesterone to Support the Luteal Phase in ART Howard Carp, Israel | |
| 12:20-12:45 | Uterine Transplant: Can the Promise Be Fulfilled? Robert Stillman, USA |
12:00-12:30 | A Survey on Luteal-Phase Support: An IVF Worldwide Survey Results Ariel Weissman, Israel |
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| 12:30-13:00 | PIF Monotherapy in Allotransplant with Return to Function Eytan Barnea, USA |
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| 12:45-13:15 | SARG in 2058 CE: Anticipating the Next Forty Years of IVF Innovations Gerald Schatten, USA |
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| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch Break | |||
| 14:00-15:30 | Session 7A: Male Infertility Chairs: Hananel Holzer, Israel, Arieh Raziel, Israel |
14:00-15:30 | Session 7B: Into the Future: The British Session Chairs: Shevach Friedler, Israel, Oya Gokmen, Turkey, Zev Rosenwaks, USA |
14:00-15:30 Sponsored 3rd Hands-on Workshop Preregistration needed |
| 14:00-14:30 | Time-Lapse Reloaded; An Embryologist Dream Marcus Meseguer, Spain |
14:00-14:25 | Where Does PCOS Come From? Roy Homburg, Israel |
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| 14:25-14:50 | The next 40 years….the ART of the possible Gillian Lockwood, UK |
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| 14:30-15:00 | The Use of Microfluidic Sperm Sorting Chip May Increase Pregnancy Rate Bulent Tiras, Turkey |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Advances in Semen Testing: The New Old Benjamin Leader, USA | |||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:30 | Session 8: Maximizing Reproductive Options and Success Chairs: Benny Fisch, Israel, Avner Hershlag, USA, Eliyahu Levitas, Israel |
| 16:00-16:25 | Maximizing Successful Implantation: TLI, PGS and AnxaV M2 Haptlotype Simon Fishel, UK |
| 16:25-16:50 | Third-Party Reproductive Medicine Tomer Singer, USA |
| 16:50-17:15 | Color Doppler 3D-4D in Human Reproduction Laurel Stadtmauer, USA |
| 17:15-17:30 | Closing remarks |