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The Magee-Womens Summit is a signature event of Magee-Womens Research Institute, one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated exclusively to women’s health and reproductive sciences. Together with UPMC, a world-renowned health care provider and insurer, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, one of the nation’s top hospitals specializing in women, and the University of Pittsburgh, ranked among the top 10 nationwide in federal grant and contract support, Magee-Womens is uniquely positioned to promote and shape scientific inquiry for women’s health topics.
The 2024 Magee-Womens Summit will bring together the world’s top research scientists, clinicians, hospital administrators, and industry experts with influential policymakers and renowned public health advocates. The Magee-Womens Summit culminates in the awarding of the $1 million Magee Prize for collaborative and transformative research within women’s health and reproductive sciences.
2024 Themes
How does the environment shape human health, and how can we reimagine science and health care while preserving the world around us?
We will discuss how the ever-changing environment shapes our health, modifies our disease risk, and affects our general well-being, as well as new approaches and tools to improve human health in ways that protect our natural resources and do not pollute our environment.
What is our microbiome, how does it impact human health, and how might we modify it and use it to inform the future of disease prevention and health care?
We will provide a roadmap on the potential promises of microbiome research and women’s health. We will discuss how incorporating the microbiome into current concepts of human health and disease offers the potential to revolutionize the future of how we predict, prevent, diagnose, and treat illnesses in women and their progeny.
How can studying the transformation of simple cells to living organisms help us understand human development?
We will illuminate key stages in early human development, address novel systems to study developmental milestones, and discuss ways to better understand early health and disease trajectories that may offer new opportunities for diagnosis, treatment, and disease prevention, starting from the earliest stages of our lives.
2024 Schedule
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: When Disasters and Climate Collide - The Potential Cumulative Impact on Pregnant Women and Other Vulnerable Populations
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
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
Caroline Gargett, PhD - Pamela Moalli, MD, PhD - Kyle Orwig, PhD
Caroline Gargett, PhD
Pamela Moalli, MD, PhD
Kyle Orwig, PhD
Lunch & Networking with Vendors
Lunch Breakout Session 1: Addressing the Needs of Patients With HR+/HER2- eBC and mBC. The Role of KISQALI in eBC and mBC
Chuck Dent, Novartis
Lunch Breakout Session 2: Women’s Health: The Future of Truly Personalized Medicine
Oriana Kraft, FemTechnology
Lunch Breakout Session 3: Delivering Women-Centric Care
Amy Bruhn, Genentech
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 - Eran Elinav, MD, PhD - Charlese McKinney - Tim Hand, PhD
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Maisa Feghali, MD, MSCR
Charlese McKinney
Tim Hand, PhD
Eran Elinav, MD, 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 - Harold Wiesenfeld, MD - Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Harold Wiesenfeld, MD
Tim Hand, PhD
Barbara Methé, 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 Reception, & Industry Networking
Yoel Sadovsky, MD, CTSI, Judith Yanowitz, PhD, Kelly Gray
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, President and CEO
Michael Annichine, CEO