PRS 2011 Meeting & Program
An exciting program is being planned for the 42nd annual meeting from September 23 - 25, 2011.
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2011 Perinatal Research Society
42nd Annual Meeting -Stonewall Resort, Roanoke, WV
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| Friday, Sept. 23, 2011 |
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4:00 pm- 6:00 pm
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Check-In, Registration with "General Congregation at the Bar" |
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6:00 pm - 6:15 pm
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Welcome by PRS President
John CP Kingdom, MD FRCSC FRCOG
Professor, ObGyn, Medical Imaging and Pathology
Staff Obstetrician, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division
Rose Torno Chair, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, ON |
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6:15 pm -7:15 pm
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MEAD JOHNSON LECTURER
Mark Kilby, DSc MD FRCOG
Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director of Fetal Medicine< West Midlands Region
University of Birmingham, England
"Fetal Therapy: A Medieval of Modern Tool in Perinatal Medicine?"
Moderator: John CP Kingdom, MD |
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7:15 pm - 8:00 pm
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Welcome Reception |
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8:00 pm
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Dinner - With introduction of Trainees by Drs. Kingdom, Cipolla and Lane |
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Saturday, Sept. 24
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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Young Investigator Breakfast
Q & A Session with Drs. Bernstein, Challis and PRS Members
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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Breakfast |
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8:00 am - 9:00 am
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MARCH OF DIMES LECTURER
Gordon C.S. Smith, MD/PhD
Professor & Chairman, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Cambridge, England
"Preventing Stillbirths with an Epidemiologist's Toolbox"
Moderator: Leonardo Periera, MD |
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9:00 am -10:00 am
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NICHD LECTURER
Louise Laurent, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
UCSD, San Diego, CA
"DNA Methylation and the Control of Early Placental Development"
Moderator: Marilyn Cipolla, PhD |
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10:00 am - 10:30 am
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Break |
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10:30 am -11:30 am
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PERKINELMER EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS |
Mana Parast, MD/PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology
UCSD, San Diego, CA
"Genomic Regulation of Early Placental Development and its Implications for the Pathogenesis of 'Placental Insufficiency" Syndromes" |
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Daniel Hardy, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Physiology & Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
"The Role of the Liver X Receptor (LXR) in the Fetal Programming of the Liver"
Moderator: John Kingdom, MD
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11:30 am -12:30 pm
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GUEST LECTURE
Shoo Lee, MBBS, FRCPC, FAAP, PhD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics & Newborn Medicine
Mount Sinai Hospital & University of Toronto, ON
Director, Canadian Neonatal Network
"The Gentle Neonatologist"
Moderator: Catalin Buhimschi, MD |
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12:30 pm -1:30 pm
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Lunch |
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1:30 pm -4:00 pm
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Free Afternoon |
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Business Meeting |
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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LILEY LECTURER
Kurt Albertine, PhD
Professor
Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
“Epigenetic Platform Underlying Developmental and Adult Consequences of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia"
Moderator: Robert Lane, MD |
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6:00 pm -7:30 pm
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"Science at the Bar: Discovering PI's by Speed-dating"
Led by Leslie Myatt, John Kingdom, and a bunch of thirsty PI's |
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7:30 pm
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Dinner |
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| Sunday, Sept. 25 |
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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NIH-NICHD Young Investigator Breakfast
Dr. Tonse Raju, NIH Representative
Grants(wo)manship for New Faculty |
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7:00 am - 8:00 am
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Breakfast |
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8:00 am - 9:00 am
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MICHAEL SMITH FOUNDATION LECTURER
Deborah Money, MD
Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Medicine
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
"Vaginal Microbiome and Preterm Birth"
Moderator: Dongbao Chen, PhD |
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9:00 am - 10:00 am
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ABBOTT NUTRITION LECTURER
Mark Phillippe, MD, MHCM
Professor & Chair for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA
"The Pandemic is Over; However H1N1 Lives On"
Moderator: Joyce Koenig, MD |
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10:00 am - 10:15 am
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Break
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10:15 am - 11:15 am
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PERKIN ELMER EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS: Session 2 |
Camille Fung, MD
Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Univeristy of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
"IUGR's Effects on the Epigenetic Regulation of Nestin, a Key Regulator Neural Stem and Progenitor Cell Multipotentiality" |
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Shiao Chan, MBBS, PhD
Senior Clinician Scientist Lecturer
Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK
"Thyroid status and fetoplacental development"
Moderator: Russell Anthony, PhD
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11:15 am -12:15 pm
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MOLLY-TOWELL LECTURER
Stephen Matthews, PhD
Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
"Hippocampal Regulation of Perinatal Programming"
Moderator: Jeff Reese, MD |
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12:15 pm
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Adjournment |
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Early Career Speaker Bios -
| Mana Parast is an Assistant Professor in Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. As an MSTP student in the laboratories of Drs. Carol Otey and Ann Sutherland, she discovered palladin, a novel actin-binding protein which plays a pivotal role in stress fiber formation and trophoblast differentiation. She did her residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Emory University, followed by fellowship training in Gynecologic and Perinatal Pathology with Drs. Chris Crum and Theonia Boyd at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Following her clinical training, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology at BWH, working with Drs. Gimbrone and Milstone, where she explored the role of PPAR-gamma in labyrinthine differentiation of mouse trophoblast stem cells and its regulation by hypoxia. As an independent investigator at UC San Diego, she is continuing her work on PPAR-gamma, and currently exploring the crosstalk between this pathway and those involving hypoxia-inducible factor and sirtuin-1, and the involvement of these signaling pathways in fetal growth restriction and placental insufficiency in both mouse models and human placental disease. At the same time, she is the recipient of a new investigator grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to develop a human trophoblast stem (TS) cell model for the study of placentation and trophoblast-based pregnancy complications; she collaborates extensively with Dr. Louise Laurent (UCSD-Reproductive Medicine) on this and other projects. |
| Daniel Hardy is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Physiology & Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario (UWO). He obtained his Bachelor Science at the University of Waterloo, and his PhD at UWO. In 2003, he pursued his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Under the leadership of Dr. Carole Mendelson, Dr. Hardy investigated some of the mechanisms involved in the actions of steroid hormone receptors, along with pregnancy and parturition. In 2008, Dr. Hardy was recruited back to his current position at UWO, cross-appointed as Scientist within the Maternal, Fetal and Newborn Division of the Children's Health Research Institute (CHRI). His new laboratory examines the role of lipid-sensing nuclear receptors in the fetal origins of adult onset diseases including hypercholesterolemia and diabetes. To date, he receives funding support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), NSERC, and the SickKids Foundation. |
| Camille Fung is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. She received her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College, followed by a Pediatric residency at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children. She then pursued a one-year NIH T32-sponsored postdoctoral research fellowship before completing her clinical fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine both at UCLA. She assumed her faculty position in 2006 and has continued her research under the guidance of Robert Lane, MD. Her current research interest is to understand neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) biology during and after the period of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). She is specifically interested in the epigenetic regulation of the nestin gene, a key regulator of NSPC multipotentiality. This research is important because IUGR predisposes towards multiple neurodevelopmental disorders in affected infants, children, and adults. IUGR also occurs when NSPCs are proliferating and differentiating into mature cell types. Her research at the University of Utah has been supported by the NIH CHRCDA (K12) as well as the Primary Children's Medical Center Foundation. |
| Shiao Chan is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow funded on a prestigious Health Foundation Clinician Scientist Fellowship. She is also a practicing Consultant Obstetrician who heads the Endocrine Antenatal Clinic at the Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cambridge in 1995 and moved to Birmingham to start training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1997. Having obtained the MRCOG in 2000, she then went on to complete a PhD in 2004 as a Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Training Fellow under the supervision of Professor Mark Kilby and Professor Jayne Franklyn at the University of Birmingham. Her particular research interest is in thyroid hormone action in the fetal brain and in placental development and function, including the pathophysiology of intrauterine growth-restriction. She was awarded a MRC (UK) project grant as a New Investigator in 2006. With further research funding from charities including Action Medical Research, Wellbeing of Women and Birmingham Children's Hospital Charities, she has established her own research team in laboratory sciences at the Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK. She is a strong advocate of translational research and aims to build an effective bridge that enables scientific knowledge to be incorporated into improvements in the care of pregnant women and their developing fetus. She is also a key member of the research team currently conducting the TABLET study, a randomised controlled clinical trial of levothyroxine treatment in euthyroid TPO antibody positive women in pregnancy funded by MRC/NIHR. |
Named Sponsorship Speaker Bios -
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Mark Kilby, MBBS, MD, FRCOG holds the Dame Hilda Lloyd Professorial Chair of Fetal Medicine at the University of Birmingham; College of Medical & Dental Sciences and is lead clinician in Fetal Medicine at the Birmingham Women's Foundation Trust.
His clinical expertise relates to prenatal diagnosis, the management of complications of monochorionic twins, intrauterine growth restriction and its placental pathology and fetal therapy.
He has published over 200 peer review original articles on topics relating to fetal medicine and in basic sciences applied to this subspecialty. The main areas of research are relating to: malplacentation and placental pathology, the endocrinology of the fetus and placenta, intrauterine fetal growth restriction, Trophoblast-decidua interaction and human implantation: the role of immune tolerance in pregnancy and treatments in pre-eclampsia.
Present active funding:
- Wellbeing of Women project grant. The role of thyroid hormone on function decidual function and trophoblast interaction.
- Human Technology Assessment (HTA), UK. A RCT to assess the role of vesicoamniotic shunting in congenital bladder neck obstruction.
- SPARKS (Sports in Science) project grant: Assessment of microarray technology in prenatal diagnosis.
- Medical Research Council (MRC)/Examining Mechanisms(EME). The role of maternal thyroxin replacement in women with TPO antibodies in pregnancy.
- Birmingham Women's Hospital Research and Development Grant: Subclinical hypothyroidism and pregnancy.
These active grants total £5.6 M funding ($8.96M).
He is the President-elect of the British Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine and also on RCOG Council. He is Chairman of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Guideline Development Group which has published its guidance on the management of Multiple Pregnancy in September 2011. He is also an invited member of the international Fetoscopy Working Group which meets annually (elected in 2005).
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Gordon CS Smith, MD PhD, is Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge, UK. He studied at Glasgow University and graduated in Medicine in 1990. He trained in Obstetrics & Gynaecology in Glasgow, obtaining sub-specialist accreditation in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2001. In addition to academic work, he remains active in clinical practice in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Rosie Hospital Cambridge. During training, he had two Wellcome Trust clinical research training fellowships: Glasgow University (1992-1993) and Cornell University, USA (1996-1999). His basic science research is focused on the control of myometrial contractility and fetal preparation for birth. His clinically orientated research focuses on the use of maternal, ultrasonic and biochemical data to determine associations with adverse pregnancy outcome. He is the principal investigator in a prospective cohort study of first pregnancies. He is a Senior Investigator of the National Institute for Health Research (UK), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science (UK) and has the honorary position of Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UTMB Texas, USA.
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Louise Laurent is an Assistant Professor in Reproductive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and a recipient of a training fellowship from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a fellowship from the NIH Reproductive Scientist Development Program, and a fellowship from the NIH/NICHD Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Program. She received her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at UC San Diego. As a student in the laboratory of Vikas P. Sukatme, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Chicago, she cloned and characterized EGR1, a zinc finger transcription factor. Her graduate research as a MSTP student at UCSF included a large scale mutagenesis and molecular tracking strategy to define the regions of the HIV genome necessary for viral replication in the laboratory of Patrick O. Brown, M.D. / Ph.D. As a clinical fellow, she worked with Jeanne Loring, Ph.D. at The Scripps Research Institute to delineate the expression of miRNAs in human embryonic stem cells. Her current research focuses on applying genomic and epigenomic methods to understanding the molecular regulation of pluripotency and differentiation, optimizing the preclinical and clinical utility of human pluripotent stem cells, and identifying the molecular basis of placental dysfunction in human pregnancy.
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| Shoo Lee is a neonatologist and health economist. He is a Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Public Health, and Head of the Division of Neonatology at the University of Toronto; Paediatrician-in-Chief and Director of the Maternal-Infant Care (MICare) Research Centre at Mt. Sinai Hospital; Chief of the Department of Newborn and Developmental Paediatrics at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; and The Women's Auxiliary Chair in Neonatology and Head of the Division of Neonatology at the Hospital for Sick Children. He received his medical degree from the University of Singapore, completed paediatric training at the Janeway Children's Hospital in Newfoundland and neonatal fellowship training at Boston's Children's Hospital, and received his PhD in Health Policy (Economics) from Harvard University. He established the Canadian Neonatal NetworkTM and the International Neonatal Collaboration to foster collaborative research and leads the CIHR Team in Maternal-Infant Care. His research focuses on improving quality of care, patient outcomes and health care services delivery. He has received many awards for his work, including the Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Aventis Pasteur Research Award and the Distinguished Neonatologist Award from the Canadian Paediatric Society, and the Premier Member of Honour Award from the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Neonatologia. |
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| Stephen Matthews is Professor of Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also the Ernest B. and Leonard B. Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology. Professor Matthews received his undergraduate education at the University of Nottingham, and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. He was appointed at the University of Toronto in 1996. His research is focused towards understanding how alterations in the fetal environment can affect developmental trajectory leading to permanent modification of endocrine function and behaviour. He is particularly interested in determining the mechanisms by which prenatal stress and fetal exposure to certain hormones can modify an individual's ability to respond to stress throughout life. His recent research has established that prenatal exposure to excess glucocorticoid can have transgenerational effects on both endocrine function and behaviour. The group is now determining the epigenetic mechanisms involved in transgenerational programming. In a second program of study, his group is investigating drug / hormone transport mechanisms in the placenta and in the fetal blood brain barrier, and developing novel treatments that modulate drug transport at these two sites. He is co-director of the MAVAN program, which follows the neurocognitive development of infants and children following adverse early experience. He is also one of the founding investigators on the MACS program that is following neurocognitive and cardiometabolic development in children exposed to glucocorticoids in pregnancy. He has published over 150 peer review scientific papers and book chapters. |
| Mark Phillippe received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago. Subsequently, he did his residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Boston Hospital for Women and subspecialty fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. Dr. Phillippe has held faculty appointments at the Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago (where he served as Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program and Vice-Chair for Research). In 2001, Dr. Phillippe became the Professor & Chair for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. In 2007, Dr. Phillippe earned a M.S. degree in Health Care Management (MHCM) from the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to his clinical and administrative activities, Dr. Phillippe has been engaged in laboratory research as a physician-scientist throughout his career. With ongoing support from the NIH, his research has addressed cell signaling mechanisms, myometrial physiology and more recently the pathophysiology of influenza infection during pregnancy. Dr. Phillippe has published over 90 biomedical papers, reviews and book chapters, and he has presented over 115 scientific abstracts. He has served on multiple scientific peer review committees for the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes Foundation and other funding agencies, including membership on the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Dr. Phillippe is a member of multiple national biomedical societies including the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, the Perinatal Research Society, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American Gynecologic and Obstetrical Society, the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the American College of Physician Executives. |
Deborah Money Dr. Money is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, located at the BC Women's Hospital, Vancouver, BC and is a subspecialist in Reproductive Infectious Diseases. Dr. Money is the Executive Director of the Women's Health Research Institute, Provincial Health Services Authority.
Dr. Money was trained with a BSc in Microbiology, and an MD at UBC followed by her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, also at UBC, and Fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington. She has developed a clinical and research program in Reproductive Infectious Diseases with research focused on HIV and other viral infections in pregnancy, HPV and the HPV vaccine in the prevention of cervical cancer and most recently in genome based studies of the vaginal microbiome. She is currently the first Canadian President of the Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) [a US based organization]. |
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