NAMS 2018 annual meeting kicks off in San Diego, California

The North American Menopause Society Annual Scientific Meeting kicks off today in San Diego, California. The agenda is packed with symposiums, lectures, research presentations, and debates over many challenging topics related to health and quality of life of women at midlife and beyond.

The conference theme is Innovation, Evidence, and Individualization: Moving Menopause Management Forward and begins Wednesday, October 3, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM with pre-Meeting organized by the 2018 Pre-Meeting Co-Chair, Sheryl Kingsberg, Ph.D. on female sexuality.

The presentation will address various aspects of the critical topics including the epidemiology and classification of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).

The focus is to make the gynecologist comfortable about talking on the topic with patients.   The six speakers from different discipline of medicine will cover biopsychosocial approach to treating hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in postmenopausal women, pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic options for arousal and orgasm issues, the role of the physical therapist in female sexual function and dysfunction, treatment options for sexual problems resulting from genitourinary syndrome of menopause, and testosterone for HSDD: clinical perspectives from sexual medicine and gynecology.

Elissa Epel, Ph.D., from the University of California, San Francisco will talk about Telomere lengths, their role in aging process and psychological aspects of aging in her keynote address “Healthy Longevity and Telomeres: what does sex have to do with it.”

Symposiums are scheduled throughout the conference to discuss critical midlife topics like the role of stress in cardiovascular health of women, breast health, bone health, osteoporosis and increasing rate of hip fractures, and obesity and weight loss.

The Friday morning breakfast is reserved for ‘Trauma-informed care’ including the #MeToo discussion to help physician deal effectively with women who have suffered adverse sexual event, rape or abuse.

Looking forward to some very interesting abstracts presented at the conference.

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Looking forward to some very interesting research papers on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy

The 21st International Conference on Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy kicks in today at the beautiful city of San Diego, United States. The conference will run through July 12, 2017.

The conference will bring together eminent speakers, medical professionals and allied health professionals from around the globe. Under the excellent direction of co-chairs, Dr. Sylvie Langlois and Dr. Yair Blumenfeld, ISPD have developed an exciting program filled with a wide range of topics covering the entire multidisciplinary field of prenatal diagnosis and therapy, delivered by 40 invited world-class speakers in pre-congress courses, debates, and invited lectures, along with more than 200 podium and poster presentations selected from an extremely high number of high-quality contributed abstracts. 

On Sunday, July 9, 2017, the half day pre-conference courses will cover topics like Genomic technologies 101 for non-geneticists, Ethical challenges in prenatal genetic counseling: A case-based approach and Ultrasound to enhance genetic diagnoses.

After the opening ceremony on July 10, oral presentations, poster sessions, debates and late-breaking research topics will be discussed: from basic science and translational discoveries to clinical application in all areas of prenatal diagnosis and therapy: from reproductive and prenatal genetic screening, ultrasound and other advanced fetal imaging, fetal therapy, clinical implementation of new technologies, genetic counseling, patient and stakeholder perspectives, and ethics.

The detailed program can be viewed here.

The International Society on Prenatal Diagnosis (ISPD) has issued a special supplement of journal Prenatal Diagnosis compiling all the abstracts presented at the conference.