Agenda

Infections, Infertility and Women’s Health: A Multi-disciplinary Symposium

Saturday, May 17th
Time	Session	Presenters
7:00-8:00 am	Breakfast/Registration
8:00-8:15 am	Opening Remarks	Dr. Kevin Ault Conference Coordinator
8:15 am-9:00 am	Pelvic Inflammatory Disease And Infertility – Lessons From The PEACH Study	Dr. Roberta Ness, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh and Principal Investigator of the PID Evaluation and Clinical Health Study
9:00-9:45 am	Pathogenesis of Gonococcal Infections in the Female Reproductive Tract	Dr. Mike Apicella, Professor and Head of Microbiology, University of Iowa
9:45-10:15 am	Break
10:15-11:00 am	Health Behaviors That Lead To Acquiring Bacterial STD’s	Dr. Don Orr, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Section of Adolescent Medicine, Indiana University and Director of the Mid-America Adolescent Sexually Transmitted Diseases Cooperative Research Center
11:00-11:45 am	How Does Bacterial Vaginosis Lead To Upper Genital Tract Infections?	Dr. David Soper Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina
12 noon-1:00 pm	Lunch
1:15-1:45 pm	Small group session #1
1:45-2:15 pm	Small group session # 2
2:15-2:45 pm	Break
2:45-3:15 pm	Small group session # 3
3:15-3:45 pm	Small group session # 4
3:45-4:00 pm	Questions and Answers	Dr. Brad Stoner and Dr. Marianne Scharbo-DeHaan
4:00-5:00 pm	Wine and Cheese Reception
	Small Group Topics
	Host responses to gonococcal infection	Dr. Ned Hook, University of Alabama
	Pathogenesis of Chlamydia trachomatis in the upper genital tract	Dr. Kevin Ault, University of Iowa
	Microbicides to prevent bacterial STD’s	Dr. Lisa Maslankowski, University of Pennsylvania
	Current epidemiology of gonorrhea including antibiotic resistance	Dr. Susan Wang, CDC
	Current epidemiology of Chlamydia	Dr. Debbie Mosure, CDC
	Immune responses in the female genital tract	Dr. Kathy Kelly, University of California at Los Angeles