the smfm 25th annual meeting highlights - Society for Maternal-Fetal ...

Poster Session I
Monica Longo, Fangxian Lu, Russel Snyder,
Garland Anderson, Gary Hankins, George Saade
Abnormal renal development in a mouse model of
fetal vascular programming (abstract #69)
Poster Session II
Catalin Buhimschi, Errol Norwitz, Susan
Richman, Anna Sfakianaki, Ben Hamar, Pinar
Kodaman, Edmund Funai, George Saade, Charles
Lockwood, Irina Buhimschi
Proteomic analysis of urine in pregnancies
complicated by urinary tract infection /
inflammation: A novel approach to diagnose and
individualize treatment (abstract #286)
Poster Session III
Michal Elovitz, Conjeevaram Mrinalini
Can MPA alter TLR expression in the setting of
intrauterine inflammation? (abstract #353)
Poster Session IV
Susan Lashley, Antonia Calafat, Dana Barr,
Thomas Ledoux, Paromita Hore, Marian Lake,
Mark Robson, John Smulian
Endocrine disruptors in the maternal and fetal
compartments (abstract #488)
Poster Session V - TIE
Andrea Shields, James Wright, Patrick McNutt,
Jennifer Gotkin, Damian Paonessa, Bobby
Howard, Nathan Hoeldtke, Peter Napolitano
Progesterone modulation of inflammatory
cytokine production in fetoplacental arteries
(abstract #562)
Dan Farine, Ariel Jaffa, Barak Rosenn, Doron
Kreiser, Eyal Schiff, Salim Kiss, Michael
Shenhav
The physiology of the cervix in labor - the effect
of individual contractions (abstract #669)
Abstracts presented at the SMFM 25 th Annual Meeting were published in the
December, 2004 special supplement (Volume 191 • Number 6) to the
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and are available to view
online at www.mosby.com/ajog
SMFM/AAOGF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Congratulations to Dr. Janet Andrews, of the
University of Iowa, on receiving the 2005
SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Award. Dr. Andrews’
proposal, reviewed and selected by the
SMFM/AAOGF Foundation Scholarship
Committee, is entitled "Human Cytomegalovirus
and Regulation of TRAIL in the Placenta" We
can look forward to Dr. Andrews’ presentation
summarizing her research at the annual meeting
of the Society in 2009.
Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Foundation
The purpose of the Foundation is to support
young investigators in maternal-fetal medicine.
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Foundation seeks to identify potential leaders in
maternal-fetal medicine and support their
research efforts through the funding of
SMFM/AAOGF Scholarship Award. Each year a
promising young scientist in the field of maternalfetal
medicine is selected to receive the award.
These jointly funded three-year scholarships are
designed to enhance the quality of research work
done by those entering maternal-fetal medicine,
to facilitate the retention of fellows who have
elected to pursue a career in academic medicine,
and to improve the health care of pregnant
women and their infants through these research
programs.
Dr. Andrews receives her award from SMFM
Foundation Chair, Dr. Robert J. Sokol
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