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Opening Keynotes
Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
Dr. Anantha Shekhar is a nationally recognized educator, researcher, and entrepreneur with major contributions to medicine and life sciences. At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Shekhar leads all six health sciences…
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Elizabeth Comen, MD
Dr. Elizabeth Comen has dedicated her medical career to saving women’s lives. An award-winning, internationally sought-after clinician and physician-scientist, Dr. Comen is a Medical Oncologist specializing in breast cancer and an Associate…
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Judy Omumbo, PhD
Dr. Judy Omumbo is an accomplished climate change and global health expert and professional. She is Head of Programmes at Science for Africa Foundation, managing bespoke programmes that develop research excellence, career progression of emerging…
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Gwen W. Collman, PhD
Dr. Gwen Collman is the Director of the Office of Scientific Coordination, Planning and Evaluation in the Office of the Director at the NIEHS. She provides leadership on the planning and implementation of complex, high-priority…
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Papa Alioune Seck
Papa Alioune Seck is the Chief of the UN Women’s Research and Data Section at UN Women. He leads the organizations on research, data and statistics, and technology and innovation,…
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Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
Dr. Caren Solomon is a Deputy Editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a physician at Brigham and Women’s…
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Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
Dr. Eran Elinav heads the Department of Systems Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and is the Director of the Microbiome & Cancer Division at the National German Cancer Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)…
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Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc
In her career, Dr. Jen Wargo’s commitment has always been to advance the understanding and treatment of disease through science. After completing her MD, she entered surgical residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…
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Barbara Methé, PhD
Dr. Barbara Methé is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and a Director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medicine and the Microbiome (CMM). She has extensive experience…
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Eldin Jašarević, PhD
Dr. Eldin Jašarević is an Assistant Professor in both the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also a…
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Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD
Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is a cardiologist and evolutionary biologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and the UCLA School of Medicine.…
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Amander Clark, PhD
Dr. Amander Clark is a stem cell scientist, geneticist, and developmental biologist who is internationally recognized for her work on the germline and in vitro gametogenesis. Professor Clark has authored over one hundred articles and…
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Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD
Dr. Nicolas Plachta is a Principal Investigator at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. His lab has pioneered the use of live imaging technologies to study how the early mammalian embryo…
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Ipsita Banerjee, PhD
Dr. Ipsita Banerjee is a member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and a Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Banerjee obtained her PhD…
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Kyle Orwig, PhD
Dr. Kyle Orwig is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Fertility Preservation Program and the Center for Reproduction and Transplantation…
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Mo Ebrahimkhani, MD
Dr. Mo Ebrahimkhani is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He performed his postdoctoral training in synthetic morphogenesis and organoids at MIT Biological Engineering. His lab has developed a novel human embryoid…
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Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD
Dr. Margherita Yayoi Turco is a Group Leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland. Her lab’s research focus is to understand how the human placenta develops and how this is influenced by…
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Registration, Breakfast, & Networking with Vendors
Magee-Womens Summit Opening: Setting the Stage
Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
Opening Keynote: The Next Hera - Elevating care for women
Elizabeth Comen, MD
Elizabeth Comen, MD
The World Around Us Keynote: Influencing Agriculture and Food Production for Sustainable Diets in Africa
Judy Omumbo, PhD
Judy Omumbo, PhD
Spotlight 1: Climate Change Impacts on Women’s Health
Gwen W. Collman, PhD
Gwen W. Collman, PhD
Spotlight 2
Papa Alioune Seck
Papa Alioune Seck
Spotlight 3: Fossil Fuel Pollution, Climate Change, and Women’s Health
Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
Break
Panel Discussion: The World Around Us - The Environment
Illah Nourbaksh, PhD - Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD - Michael L. Boninger, MD - Jamil Bey, PhD - Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
2021 Magee Prize Winners: Vaginal Stem Cells: The Missing Link in Vaginal Reconstruction
Pamela Moalli, MD, PhD - Kyle Orwig, PhD
Pamela Moalli, MD, PhD
Kyle Orwig, PhD
Lunch & Networking with Vendors
The World Within Us Keynote: Host-Microbiome Interaction in Health and Disease
Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
Spotlight 1: Targeting the microbiome to promote health and end cancer
Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc
Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc
Spotlight 2: Incorporating the Human Microbiome into Precision Medicine
Barbara Methé, PhD
Barbara Methé, PhD
Spotlight 3: Why Does Development Rely on the Microbiome?
Eldin Jašarević, PhD
Eldin Jašarević, PhD
Panel Discussion: The World Within Us - The Microbiome
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD - Maisa Feghali, MD, MSCR - Harold Wiesenfeld, MD - Charlese McKinney - Tim Hand, PhD
Break
Magee Prize Presentations
Transition to Breakout Sessions
Breakout Session 1: The World Around Us - The Environment
Noe Copley-Woods, MD - Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, PhD - Ellen Beckjord, PhD, MPH - Judy Omumbo, PhD
Noe Copley-Woods, MD
Timothy R. Nurkiewicz, PhD
Ellen Beckjord, PhD, MPH
Judy Omumbo, PhD
Breakout Session 2: The World Within Us - The Microbiome
Tim Hand, PhD - Barbara Methé, PhD - Eran Elinav, MD, PhD - Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Tim Hand, PhD
Barbara Methé, PhD
Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
Breakout Session 3: The World We Form - Cells to Babies
Emre Seli, MD - Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD - Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD - Amander Clark, PhD
Emre Seli, MD
Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD
Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD
Amander Clark, PhD
Break, Poster Session, Cocktail Hour, & Industry Networking
Magee Prize Dinner Celebration and Presentation of Awards - Healthy Women, Healthy World
Keynote: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD: Female Health Across the Tree of Life - Special awards - Magee Prize Presentation
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD
Registration, Breakfast, & Networking with Vendors
The World We Form Keynote: Stem Cells, Reproductive Health and Society
Amander Clark, PhD
Amander Clark, PhD
The World We Form Keynote: Seeing How Life Starts: Imaging the Earliest Stages of Embryonic Development in Real Time
Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD
Nicolas D. Plachta, PhD
Spotlight 1: Building Human Biomimetic Models with Engineered Organoids
Ipsita Banerjee, PhD
Ipsita Banerjee, PhD
Spotlight 2: Sertoli Cell Gene Therapy for Male Infertility
Kyle Orwig, PhD
Kyle Orwig, PhD
Spotlight 3: Modelling Post-Implantation Human Development to Yolk Sac Blood Emergence
Mo Ebrahimkhani, MD
Mo Ebrahimkhani, MD
Break
The World We Form Keynote: Organoid Systems as a Window into Women's Reproductive Health
Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD
Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD
Panel Discussion: The World We Form - Cells to Babies
Julie Rios, MD - Jerome F. Strauss III, MD, PhD - Michael J. Soares, PhD - Aasta Mehta, MD - Thomas Washington, Jr., MBA
Closing Remarks
Michael Annichine, CEO
Michael Annichine, CEO