7:30 - 4:00 

Registration Desk open

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 7:00 - 7:50 

Continental Breakfast for Clinical Course attendees

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  8:00 - 10:00

Clinical Course I: Laboratory Sciences and Reproductive Failures/ Rheumatology

Chair: Udo Markert

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 8:00

CC-01: Mahmood Bilal, Rosalind Franklin University - The role of extrathyroidal compound on immune and endometrial tissue

 8:30

CC-02: Udo Markert, University of Jena - Immunological Aspects of Endometrium

 9:00

CC-03: Theonia Boyd, Texas Children's Hospital - Immunologic Mechanisms of Pregnancy Loss Throughout Gestation: Placental Pathology I

CC-04: Theonia Boyd, Texas Children's Hospital -- Immunologic Mechanisms of Pregnancy Loss Throughout Gestation: Placental Pathology II

 10:00 - 10:15

COFFEE BREAK

  10:15 - 12:15

Clinical Course II: Recurrent pregnancy losses, Rheumatic disease, and immunotherapy

Chair: Joanne Kwak-Kim

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 10:15

CC-05: Aihua Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Immune Cells and Reproductive Failures

 10:45

CC-06: Rosanna Ramhorst, IQUIBICEN Conicet - The Impact of the Embryonic Quality on Shaping Endometrial Immune Response

 11:15

CC-07: Bonnie Bermas, UT Southwestern - Rheumatic disease and pregnancy management

 11:45

CC-08: Joanne Kwak-Kim, Rosalind Franklin University - Endometrial gene expressions in women with reproductive failures

  12:15 - 1:15

Clinical Course Lunch Break

on your own

  1:15 - 3:15 

Clinical Course III: Infertility and implantation failures

Chair: Rafat Abassi

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 1:15

CC-09: Marcelo Cavalcante, Universidade de Fortaleza - Immunotherapy Guidelines for Laboratory Testing: Open Discussion

 1:45

CC-10: Mugdha Raut, Dr. Raut's Centre for Reproductive Immunology - Lymphocyte Immunization Therapy (ImmuLIT™) in Recurrent Reproductive Failures (RRF) - The Indian Experience

 2:15

CC-11: Koji Nakagawa, Sugiyama Clinic Shinjuku - Tacrolimus in Reproductive Failures

 2:45

CC-12: Abey Eapen, University of Iowa - The Role of Autoimmunity in Reproductive Failure

 3:15 - 3:30

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Clinical Course IV: Inflammatory immune disorders during pregnancy

Chair: Surendra Sharma & Mohan Raut

CC-13: Reshef Tal, Yale University - Bone Marrow-derived Progenitors: Contributions to Endometrium and Implications to Recurrent Pregnancy Failure

CC-14: Babette Lamarca, University of Mississippi - Perinatal TNF-α Blockade May Have Long-Term Positive Effects on Dams and Female Offspring of a Rat Model Preeclampsia

CC-15: Surendra Sharma, University of Texas Medical Branch - Alzheimer’s Etiology in Younger Population: Lessons from Preeclampsia, A Severe Pregnancy Complication

CC-16: Karin Fox, University of Texas Medical Branch - Clinical Complications and the role of Placental Immune Activity as a Modulator at the Maternal-Featal Interface

 6:00 - 6:15

Welcome Remarks & Introduction

Great River 1&4

PL1: CAROLYN COULAM AWARD LECTURE: A Journey Towards Understanding Preterm Birth: A Neonatologists Perspective

Liza Konnikova

Yale School of Medicine

6:45 - 8:00

WELCOME RECEPTION: "ASRI SPEAKEASY"

WANTED: Your presence as we step back in time to the Roaring 20s Prohibition Era in St. Paul, a hideout for gangsters, bank robbers & bootleggers. Put on your "glad rags" and join us - you'll need to show your badge and say the secret password at the door!

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