Conference Description
The 17th Annual HeLa Women's Health Conference will take place Friday, September 14, 2012 and is designed to heighten participants’ awareness of Stem Cell Development Continuum and the Bioethical considerations associated with use of embryonic stem cells.
Target Audience
Practicing Obstetricians and Gynecologists; students in training; perinatal healthcare delivery personnel; reproductive and environmental health specialists; social scientists; health policy officials; and community reproductive health activists.
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Define the arena of embryonic stem cells, distinguish point of origin from adult and embryonic sources.
- Describe the capacity for umbilical cord blood cells to engraft and fully populate the depleted marrow.
- Outline the ethical considerations of destruction of an embryo versus treatment of disease.
- Describe umbilical cord blood collection and cryopreservation techniques.
- Record the results of stem cell therapy in injury and diseases of the spinal cord.
- Define some preliminary outcomes of regenerative medicine therapy.
- Summarize umbilical cord blood translational cell therapy in cancer, metabolic diseases, cerebral palsy, congenital heart disease and in children with genetic or neurodegenerative disease.
Accreditation
Morehouse School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Morehouse School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum 6.5 hours AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent to their participation in the activity.
Agenda
Please note that this agenda is subject to change
| FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. | Overview & Henrietta Lacks Legacy
Roland A. Pattillo, M.D.
Professor and Conference Director
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine Welcome
Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D.
Dean and Executive Vice President
Morehouse School of Medicine |
| 9:20 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.
10:05 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
10:50 a.m - 11:00 a.m. | SESSION I From HeLa to Stem Cell Therapies: Overcoming Health Disparities in Reproductive and Regenerative Medicine
Gerald Schatten, Ph.D. [learn more]
Professor and Vice Chair of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of Pittsburgh Bioethical Considerations on Research Using Embryonic Stem Cells
Stephen O. Sodeke, Ph.D., MA [learn more]
Bioethicist, Professor of Allied Health
Tuskegee University Break
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| 11:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
11:45 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.
12:30 p.m - 1:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m - 2:00 p.m. | SESSION II Disease and Genome Variation in the Diaspora
Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D. [learn more]
Chair, Department of Microbiology, Founding Director, National Human Genome Center and Director Molecular Genetics, NHGC
Howard University Keynote Address: "Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells" The Future unfolds in Cancer, Metabolic Disorders, Genetic Defects and Cerebral Palsy
Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D. [learn more]
Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, Division Chief, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Duke University Lunch Original play about Henrietta Lacks-Written by: Lauriette Johnson: Performed by students from Decatur High School and Renfroe Middle School |
| 2:05 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
2:50 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.
3:35 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
3:40 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
4:25 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
5:00 p.m.-5:25 pm
5:25 pm- 5:30 pm | SESSION III Stem Cell Male Gametogenesis
Kelwyn Thomas, M.D. [learn more]
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Morehouse School of Medicine Epigenetic Regulation of Endothelial Cell Specification from Stem Cells: Recent Developments
Methode Bacanamwo, Ph.D. [learn more]
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Principal Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Morehouse School of Medicine Break HPV DNA Screening Prior to Vaccination
Lisa Flowers, M.D.
Associate Professor, General Obstetrics and Gynecology
Emory University School of Medicine New Frontiers in Cellular Communication: Review of Exosomes in Endometriosis
Djana Harp, M.D. [learn more]
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine Stem Cell Therapy: Improvements in Community Trust
Elvan Catherine Daniels, M.D., M.PH [learn more]
Associate Director for Community Orientation Primary Care, National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine Closing Remarks
Roland A. Pattillo, M.D.
Professor and Conference Director
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Morehouse School of Medicine |
10 minute Q&A will follow each presentation
This conference is supported by an educational grant from Merck.