Art and Science of Assisting Human Reproduction

 

 

 

11th September 2006

 

Time Topic & Speaker

 

08.00                  Registration

 

08.40-08.45       Welcome and House keeping

                                  Dr. Edmond Edi-Osagie, Consultant Gynaecologist and Course Convener

 

08.45-09.30       Trends in human fecundity and fertility: are we a vanishing species?

                                  Prof Van der Veen, Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Amsterdam

 

09.30-10.15       Epidemiology of subfertility

                                  Dr. Pat Doyle, Reader in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London

 

10.15-11.00       Matrimonial and societal costs of subfertility and its treatment

                                  Ms. Clare Brown, Chief Executive, Infertility Network UK

 

11.00-11.30       Tea/Coffee break

 

11.30-12.15       Assisting human reproduction: benevolence or moral obligation?

                                  Dr. Brian Lieberman, Director of Reproductive Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester

 

12.15-13.00       Regulating assisted human reproduction: is it time for a re-think?

                                  Prof. Bill Ledger, Sheffield

 

13.00-14.00       Lunch break

 

14.00-14.45       Natural versus artificial methods of sex selection

                                  Edgar Dahl, Germany

 

14.45-15.30       Ethics of designer babies: eugenic lessons we should remember

                                  Prof. David Galton, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, London

 

15.30-16.00       Tea/Coffee break

 

16.00-16.45       Rationing decisions in assisted human reproduction

                                  Prof Richard Lilford, Birmingham

 

16.45-17.15       Assisting human reproduction: should we draw the line?

                                  Prof. Tom Baldwin, Professor of Philosophy, University of York

 

17.15-17.30       Concluding remarks

 

17.30                  Close

 

19.00                  Conference Banquet

 

 

 

 

 

12th September 2006

 

Time Topic & Speaker

 

08.00                  Registration

 

08.45-09.30       Reproductive transplantation: viable option for treating subfertility?

                                  Prof. Jacque Donnez, Department of Gynaecology, Saint-Luc University Hospital, Brussels

 

09.30-10.15       Stem cell therapy: reproductive cloning with a human face?

                                  Dr. Daniel Brison, Consultant Embryologist, St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester

 

10.15-11.00       Insulin sensitizing agents: why, when and how to use?

                                  Prof. Roy Homburg, Division of Reproductive Medicine, University of Amsterdam

 

11.00-11.30       Tea/Coffee break

 

11.30-12.15       Treating male subfertility: is there life beyond ICSI?

                                  Prof. Neil McClure, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Queen’s University, Belfast

 

12.15-13.00       Tubal subfertility: competing and complementary roles of reproductive surgery and IVF

                                  Prof. TC Li, Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Jessop Wing, Sheffield

 

13.00-14.00       Lunch break

 

14.00-14.45       Uterine fibroids: do they really impact on human reproduction?

                                  Dr. Yacoub Khalaf, Consultant in Reproductive Medicine, GSTT, London

 

14.45-15.30       Endometriosis and human reproduction

                                  Dr. David Cahill, Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Bristol

 

15.30-16.15       Unexplained infertility: why we need to do more

                                  Prof. Justin Konje, Leicester

 

16.15-16.30       Concluding remarks

 

16.30                  Close

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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