Foundation for Reproductive Medicine Conference (FRMC) 2024

Presented by: Paula Amato, MD

09:30-10.00 The almost limitless opportunity of making gametes and embryos

Given by: Katsuhiko Hayashi, PhD

10:00-10:30 The first ex-corpus ovarian perfusion model

Given by: Pasquale Patrizion, MD

10:30-11-00 Yes, there may be immunologic treatments in infertility that work.

Given by: S. Zev Williams, MD. PhD

11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK

Session 2 IMPORTANT NEW CONCEPTS Part 2

MCed by: Chair: Raoul Orvieto, MD

12:00-12:30 Viewing pregnancy under new light: As an immune rather than endocrine

condition – immunologically protected by the placenta, a permanently mosaic

and ultimately, discardable organ

Given by: Norbert Gleicher, MD

12:30-13:00 THE INTERNATIONAL DO NO HARM GROUP IN IVF (IDNHG-IVF) LECTURE:

Detection of micronuclei in human embryonic stem cells

and embryo models: What does it mean?

Given by: Ali H. Brivanlou, PhD

13:00-13:30 GET YOUR BOXED LUNCH Get your lunch “to-go"

13:30-14:00 SYMPOSIUM: Per ASRM, blastocyst culture is standard of care,

-- but is this correct or does this it harm some patients?

Chair: David H. Barad, MD, MS

Panelist Eve Feinberg, MD

Panelist Norbert Gleicher, MD

Panelist Raoul Orvieto, MD

Panelist Pasquale Patrizio, MD

Panelist S. Zev Williams, MD, PhD

MCed by: Chair: Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, MAB

14:00-14:20 First ultrasound documentation of implantation in non-human primate (marmoset) model

Given by: Rohan S. Soman

14:20-15:00 To Be Announced Soon

Given by: Nicolas Rivron3

15:00-15:30 Modeling the interphase between embryo and endometrium to understand

embryo implantation in humans

Given by: Shun Shibata, MD

15:30-16:00. COFFEE BREAK

MCed by: Chair: Pasquale Patrizio, MD

16:00-16:20 Trying to achieve a non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis

Given By: Eve C. Feinberg, MD

16:20-16-40 The tedious trajectory of PGS/PGT-A

Given By: Raoul Orvieto, MD

16:40-17:00 Why are U.S. donor-egg- cycle outcomes now worse than in 2014?

Given By: Sonia Gayete-Lafuente, MD, PhD

17:00-17:20 Somewhat surprising news on endometrial scratching

Given By: Zeev Shoham, MD

17:20-17:40 What to expect from A.I. and machine learning in reproductive medicine

Given By: Victoria S. Jiang MD

17:40-18:00 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS FOR THE SESSION

All of session’s speakers

18:00-20:00 WELCOME RECEPTION 

MCed By: Chair: Nanette Santoro, MD

16:00 – 16:30 Extending individual organ health spans to extend total body health span

Given By: Juan Carlos Izbizua Belmonte, PhD

16:30 – 17:00 To Be Announced Soon

Given By: Ashley Laughney, PhD

17:30 - 18:00 Precarious and precious beginnings: The new biology of human

fertilization and early development.

Given By: David F. Albertini, PhD

MCed By: Chair: David F. Albertini, PhD

08:30-09.00 THE FOUNDATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE LECTURE:

Ethics at the very core of fertility research and clinical practice

Given By: Vardit Ravitsky, PhD

09.00-09:30 How controversial treatments like germline editing and production of

gametes as well as embryos will affect research and clinical practice in

reproductive medicine

Given By: Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, MA

09:30-10.00 To Be Announced Soon

Given By: Sonia Gayete, MD, PhD

10:00-10:30 Clinical utility of polygenic risk scoring: The statement of the American

College of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Given By: Shagun Kaur, MD

10.30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK and Poster View

MCed By: Chair: Milton Leong, MD

11:00-11:30 Why precision medicine in infertility practice is essential for achieving best

practice but also for expanding affordability of infertility care

Given By: Norbert Gleicher, MD

11:30-12:00 Rethinking ovarian stimulation through the lens of the connectome: an4

opportunity to improve oocyte quality

Given By: David F. Albertini, PhD

12:00-12:30 Precision medicine in preparing ovaries: androgens, human growth

hormone, PRP, etc.

Given By: David H. Barad, MD, MS

12:30:13:00 Precision medicine through individualized ovulation trigger

Given By: Raoul Orvieto, MD

13:00-13:30 LUNCH - GET YOUR BOXED LUNCH

13:30-14:00 SYMPOSIUM: How to integrate “add-ons” into precision medicine

Chair: Norbert Gleicher, MD

Panelist David F. Barad, MD, MS

Panelist Raoul Orvieto, MD

Panelist Pasquale Patrizio, MD

Panelist Vardit Ravitsky, PhD

Panelist Nanette Santoro, MD

MCed By: Chair: Zeev Shoham, MD

14:00-14:30 The interdependence of food, nutrition, and fertility/infertility

Given By: Jorge E. Chavarro, M.D., Sc. D

14:30-15:00 What is the effect of weight loss on female and male fertility?

Given By: Nanette Santoro, MD

15:00-15:30 An introduction to the new anti-obesity drugs for potential pretreatments in

female as well as male infertility patients

Given By: Devika Umashanker, MD

15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK Poster Viewing in Exhibition Hall

MCed By: Chair: Raoul Orvieto

08:30-08:50 From the beginning to the end, thinking differently about oocyte IVM

Given By: David F. Albertini, PhD

08:50-09:10 Don’t discard immature oocytes; - rescue them

Given By: Cari Nicholas, PhD

09:10-09:30 Genomic insights into PCOS - causal mechanisms and classifications

Given By: Andrea Dunaif, MD

09:30-9:50 The ascent of same sex reproduction

Given By: Eli Y. Adashi, MD, MS, MA

9:50-10:10 To Be Announced Soon

10:10-10:30 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS FOR THE SESSION All of session’s speakers - COFFE SERVED OUTSIDE

MCed By: Chairs: David H. Barad, MD, MS & Norbert Gleicher, MD

10:30-11:00 How the flagship journals of infertility practice, Fertility and Sterility,

and other ASRM journals, address the declining trust in medical publishing?

Given By: Kurt T. Barnhart, MD, MSCE

11:00-11:30 THE CENTER FOR HUMAN REPRODUCTION LECTURE: What are medical

journals to do in an increasingly divisive political world when the readership is

divided?

Given By: Kirsten Bibbins-Doming, PhD, MD, MAS

11:30-12:00 Recognizing the limits of “evidence-based medicine” and coming to

understand the importance of “real-life data.”

Given By: Norbert Gleicher, MD

12:00-12:30 Reorganizing peer review: More resources and access to original data sets

and laboratory books?

Given By: David H. Barad, MD, MS

12:30– 13:00 THE BRAKING NEWS LECTURE: Lecturer Announced Soon

13:00 CLOSING

Given By: Norbert Gleicher, MD