Agenda

June 21-24, 2023
(Tentative — Subject to change)

Confirmed poster presentations (as of April 27, 2023)

June 21Wednesday

7:30am

Registration

8:00am

Welcome

8:30am

My quest to end preventable stillbirth in the US and how it has changed me

Heather Florescue

MD, FACOG

9:15am

Reducing the risk of Placenta-Mediated Stillbirths: a Placenta Clinic approach

John Kingdom

MD, FRCSC(c)

10:00am

Break/Exhibits

10:30am

The Wellcome Leap In Utero Program

Sarah Stock

PhD, BSc (Hons), MRCOG, FRCOG

11:15am

Generating diagnostics that flag babies in peril from poor placental function

Stephen Tong

12:00pm

Lunch/Exhibits

1:00pm

Raising the Profile of the Placenta in Perinatal Healthcare Delivery and Research

Mana Parast

MD, PhD

1:45pm

Reinvestigating unexplained stillbirths for evidence of phasic uteroplacental hypoperfusion and its clinical associations

Gar-Way Ma

BHSc, MD(c)

Sarah Zachariah

MD (c), MSc, BSc (Hons)

2:15pm

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection and Advers e Birth Outcomes

Michelle Zappas

DNP, FNP-BC

2:45pm

Break/Exhibits

3:15pm

Sleep disordered breathing is associated with hypoxia and alterations in placental apoptosis

Alexander Heazell

MBCHB, PHD, MRCOG

4:00pm

Does Maternal Sleep Influence Fetal Growth

Louise O'Brien

PhD

4:45pm

Positional Therapy: A Decade-Long, Multi-Disciplinary, International Collaboration for Safer Sleep in Pregnancy

Allan Kember

FRCSC(c), MD, MSc(c), BSc

5:15pm

Adjourn

5:30pm

Reception Welcome: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS, Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Diego Health Sciences Dr. Steven Gonias, UCSD Chair of Pathology Exhibits

7:00pm

Adjourn Board of Directors Meeting

June 22Thursday

7:30am

Registration

8:00am

Welcome

8:15am

Using Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) to Understand and Catalyze Action to Reduce Stillbirths

Rosemary Fournier

RN, BSN

8:45am

Findings on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Maternity Care Access and FM reporting from COSMOS: Covid-19: Outcomes for Sleep, Maternity care and GlObal pregnancy Study.

Alexander Heazell

MBCHB, PHD, MRCOG

Jane Warland

RN, RM, DIPAPPL SC (Nurs), Grad Cert Ed (Uni Teach)

Louise O'Brien

PhD

9:45am

Break/Posters

10:00am

Fetal Movements and Stillbirth Research: What we know and where to next?

Billie Bradford

RM PhD

10:45am

Verbal Information from Parents (the VIPs study): Phase One

Jane Warland

RN, RM, DIPAPPL SC (Nurs), Grad Cert Ed (Uni Teach)

11:30am

Lunch/Posters

12:30pm

Umbilical Cord Abnormalities in Stillbirth

Linda M. Ernst

1:15pm

Increased BMI and Stillbirth: Preventing what is no one's fault

Lisa Gill

MD, MS

2:00pm

Obstetric Outcomes Among Women with Reactive Hypoglycaemia at Glucose Tolerance Test

Sana Rehman

BSc (Hons)

2:30pm

Break/Posters

2:45pm

Specialist Care in Pregnancies After Loss – An update from Rainbow Clinic, Manchester, UK

Alexander Heazell

MBCHB, PHD, MRCOG

3:30pm

Fetal Assessment: Past, Present, Future – A Journey to Reduce Stillbirth

Lawrence Platt

4:15pm

Poster Presentation

5:30pm

Adjourn

June 23Friday

8:00am

Welcome

8:15am

How we can communicate public health messages to reduce stillbirth

Tomasina Stacey

RM, MPH, PhD

9:00am

Winds of change: Co-designing First Nations Resources with and for Australian Aboriginal People.

Jane Warland

RN, RM, DIPAPPL SC (Nurs), Grad Cert Ed (Uni Teach)

9:45am

Break

10:00am

The blame game: Experience and impact of stillbirth on midwives

Tosin Popoola

RN, RM, PhD

10:30am

Stigmatization through Marketing and Societal Factors After Baby Loss: Understanding Contributors to Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Elizabeth A. Minton

PhD

11:00am

Supporting Bereaved Parents Experiencing Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Skills Development, Research Updates and Caring for the Bereaved

Kathleen Massmann

LPCC, CPLC

11:30am

Closing

12:00pm

Adjourn

1:00pm

Stillbirth Roundtable – STARS Consortium Members

1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

June 24Saturday

8:30am

Registration

9:00am

Opening Remarks

9:10am

Prenatal Diagnosis of the Growth Restricted Fetus

Douglas Woelkers, MD

Perinatologist

Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

University of California, San Diego

9:30am

Not a small problem: growth restriction on a personal level

Katherine (Kathy) Weiss, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Neonatology, University of California San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital

9:50am

Spatial profiling of the healthy term placenta to inform studies of fetal growth restriction.

Kathleen Fisch, PhD

Assistant Professor Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (OB/GYN)
Faculty Director, Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (CCBB)
Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Translational Immunogenomics (CETI)

10:10am

Placental FSTL3 is associated with intrauterine growth restriction in parturient persons of African, Asian and European ancestries.

Omonigho Aisagbonhi, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego

10:35am

Break

10:55am

Preeclampsia and Fetal Growth Restriction: The chicken or the egg?

Ukachi Emeruwa, MPH

Assistant Professor
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of California, San Diego

11:15am

Modeling placenta associated pregnancy disorders: perspective from fetal growth restriction.

Mariko Horii, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
University of California, San Diego

11:35am

Placental Pathology and Fetal Growth in Pregnancies Complicated By Obesity.

Samantha Hietalati, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children’s Hospital

11:55am

Lunch

1:00pm

The fetoplacental vasculature: An underestimated yet potential target of intervention in severe fetal growth restriction?

Emily Su, MD, MSCI

Professor University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Sciences/Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine

1:50pm

Break

2:20pm

Intrauterine growth restriction: Placental correlates with early onset and late onset recognition.

Amy Hereema-McKenney, MD

Director of Perinatal Pathology

Cleveland Clinic

3:10pm

A New Paradigm for the Regulation of Fetal Growth.

Paul Rozance, MD

The Frederick C. Battaglia Chair in Neonatology Research
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatal Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Perinatal Research Center

4:00pm

Agenda

June 21-24, 2023(Tentative — Subject to change)

Confirmed poster presentations (as of April 27, 2023)

June 21Wednesday

Registration

Welcome

My quest to end preventable stillbirth in the US and how it has changed me

Heather Florescue

Reducing the risk of Placenta-Mediated Stillbirths: a Placenta Clinic approach

John Kingdom

Break/Exhibits

The Wellcome Leap In Utero Program

Sarah Stock

Generating diagnostics that flag babies in peril from poor placental function

Stephen Tong

Lunch/Exhibits

Raising the Profile of the Placenta in Perinatal Healthcare Delivery and Research

Mana Parast

Reinvestigating unexplained stillbirths for evidence of phasic uteroplacental hypoperfusion and its clinical associations

Gar-Way Ma

Sarah Zachariah

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection and Advers e Birth Outcomes

Michelle Zappas

Break/Exhibits

Sleep disordered breathing is associated with hypoxia and alterations in placental apoptosis

Alexander Heazell

Does Maternal Sleep Influence Fetal Growth

Louise O'Brien

Positional Therapy: A Decade-Long, Multi-Disciplinary, International Collaboration for Safer Sleep in Pregnancy

Allan Kember

Adjourn

Reception Welcome: Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD, MS, Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Diego Health Sciences Dr. Steven Gonias, UCSD Chair of Pathology Exhibits

Adjourn Board of Directors Meeting

June 22Thursday

Registration

Welcome

Using Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) to Understand and Catalyze Action to Reduce Stillbirths

Rosemary Fournier

Findings on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Maternity Care Access and FM reporting from COSMOS: Covid-19: Outcomes for Sleep, Maternity care and GlObal pregnancy Study.

Alexander Heazell

Jane Warland

Louise O'Brien

Break/Posters

Fetal Movements and Stillbirth Research: What we know and where to next?

Billie Bradford

Verbal Information from Parents (the VIPs study): Phase One

Jane Warland

Lunch/Posters

Umbilical Cord Abnormalities in Stillbirth

Linda M. Ernst

Increased BMI and Stillbirth: Preventing what is no one's fault

Lisa Gill

Obstetric Outcomes Among Women with Reactive Hypoglycaemia at Glucose Tolerance Test

Sana Rehman

Break/Posters

Specialist Care in Pregnancies After Loss – An update from Rainbow Clinic, Manchester, UK

Alexander Heazell

Fetal Assessment: Past, Present, Future – A Journey to Reduce Stillbirth

Lawrence Platt

Poster Presentation

Adjourn

June 23Friday

Welcome

How we can communicate public health messages to reduce stillbirth

Tomasina Stacey

Winds of change: Co-designing First Nations Resources with and for Australian Aboriginal People.

Jane Warland

Break

The blame game: Experience and impact of stillbirth on midwives

Tosin Popoola

Stigmatization through Marketing and Societal Factors After Baby Loss: Understanding Contributors to Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being

Elizabeth A. Minton

Supporting Bereaved Parents Experiencing Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Skills Development, Research Updates and Caring for the Bereaved

Kathleen Massmann

Closing

Adjourn

Stillbirth Roundtable – STARS Consortium Members

June 24Saturday

Registration

Opening Remarks

June 21-24, 2023
(Tentative — Subject to change)