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Syllabus
WEDNESDAY SESSIONS | MARCH 18
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Session Title |
Presentations |
| 12:45 PM –1:30 PM |
Fellows Talk: Jones Case Rounds: Challenging Inter-Disciplinary Issues
Susan Crockin, JD
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| 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM |
Fellows Talk: How to Get Started with Job Search and Future Career Eduardo Hariton, MD, MBA; Phillip Romanski, MD, MSc |
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| 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM |
Fellows Talk: Mastering the Management of PCOS
Lauri Black
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| 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM |
Genetics Breakout - Investigation and Root Causes of PGT Discrepancies
Christina Boots, MD, MSCI
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| 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM |
Genetics Breakout: Assessing the Embryo Genome: Promise, Practice, and Peril
Rawan Awwad, CGC
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| 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM |
Embryologist Breakout: Recruiting, Training, and Developing Embryologists for the IVF Lab of the Future
Joseph Conaghan, PhD, HCLD
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| 2:45 PM – 5:00 PM |
APP/Nurse Breakout: Advancing Practice: Clinical Case Studies in Reproductive Medicine for APPs and RNs
Ursula Rocha, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, C-RHI; Jamie Feingold, MSN, NP-C, WHNPBC, C-RHI and Hayley Rapp, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, CPPS
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| 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM |
Fellows Talk: What Gets Published and Why
Kurt Barnhart, MD MSCE
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| 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM |
Genetics Breakout: Emerging PGT-A Technologies Jenna Miller, MS, CGC |
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| 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM |
Embryologist Breakout: More, More, More: Balancing the Push for Volumes with Lab Efficiency and Quality/Personalized Medicine
Bec Holmes, PhD, HCLD
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| 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM |
Fellows Talk: SREI Young Investigator Research Competition
Isaac Chamani, Allison Eubanks, Alexandra Herweck, Elena HogenEsch, Cecilia Rosenbaum, Huan Yang, Lusy Aghajanova and Margareta Pisarska
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| 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM |
Genetics Breakout: Engaging Patients in Embryo Disposition Decisions Before and After PGT
Alleigh Boyd, MS, CGC
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| 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM |
Embryologist Breakout: Sperm and Selection Techniques: Do Any Really Improve Embryo Quality and Outcomes?
Denny Sakkas, BSc, PHD
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THURSDAY SESSIONS | MARCH 19
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| Time (PT) |
Session Title |
Presentations |
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM |
Faculty Talk: The Future of Early Pregnancy Viability Prediction
Kurt Barnhart, MD, MSCE
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| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM |
Faculty Talk: Subclinical Hypothyroidism
Micah Hill, DO
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| 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM |
Oral Abstracts 1-3
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| 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM |
Oral Abstracts 4-6 |
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| 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM |
Faculty Talk: Diagnosis of Endometriosis
Hugh Taylor, MD
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| 2:00 PM –2:45 PM |
Faculty Talk: Opportunities to Increase Usable Embryo Yield in the Lab
Bec Holmes, PhD, HCLD
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| 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM |
Faculty Talk: Innovation in Fertility and the Patient Impact
Eduardo Hariton MD, MBA
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| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
F&S Fellows Debate: Gestational Carrier with Medical Indication
Micah Hill, Jensen Rechhow, Howard Li, Francesca Barrett, Bahar Yilmaz, Adriana Wong, Anthony Bui and Lusy Aghajanova/Eduardo Hariton
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FRIDAY SESSIONS | MARCH 20
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| Time (PT) |
Session Title |
Presentations |
| 8:15 AM – 9:00 AM |
Faculty Talk: "Weighting" for a Baby: Navigating Obesity and Fertility Care
Christina Boots, MD, MSCI; Ursula Rocha, MSN, APRN, WHNP-BC, C-RHI
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| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM |
Oral Presentations of Abstracts 7 - 10
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| 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM |
Faculty Talk: Geographic Variations in the Clinical Practice of Reproductive Medicine Within the United States and Internationally
Alexander Quaas, MD, PhD
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| 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM |
Faculty Talk: IVF and Obstetric Morbidity: A Risk Reduction Opportunity
Malavika Prabhu, MD
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| 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM |
Faculty Talk: Can In Vitro Spermatogenes Prevent Heritable Disease: De Novo Mutations, Oligozoospermia & the $7M /10 yr Graph
Jim Hotaling, MD, MS FECSM
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| 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM |
Faculty Talk: Optimizing Frozen Embryo Transfer Outcomes: The Current State of the Evidence
Kate Devine, MD
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| 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM |
Faculty Talk: Complex Genetic Cases - Interactive Discussion
Rawan Awwad, CGC; Alleigh Boyd, MS, CGC; Jenna Miller, MS, CGC
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SATURDAY SESSIONS | MARCH 21
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| Time (PT) |
Session Title |
Presentations |
| 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM |
Faculty Talk: AI-Generated Therapeutics for Fertility and Medicine
Pranam Chatterjee, PhD
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| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM |
ASRM Talk: Next Gen Learning: How Today's Trainees Think, Learn, and Thrive
Sarah Ramaiah, PhD MS Ed and Chevis Shannon, DrPH, MBA, MPH, MERC
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| 10:00 AM– 10:45 AM |
Faculty Talk: Fertility Preservation in Wild Animal Species – Recent Advances and Relevance to Human Reproductive Medicine
Pierre Comizzoli, DVM, MSc, PhD
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| 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM |
Faculty Talk: Reproductive Healthcare at the Nexus of Medicine and Politics
Kristin Lyerly, MD, MPH, FACOG
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| 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM |
Faculty Talk: Recurrent Implantation Failure: Where Evidence Meets Ambiguity – Clarifying Definitions and Advancing Evidence-based Strategies for Managing RIF
Bruce Pier, MD |

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SUNDAY SESSIONS | MARCH 22
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| Time (PT) |
Session Title |
Presentations |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |
Brunch Talk - Designing Biology with Generative AI: A New Era of Innovation
Pranam Chatterjee, PhD
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