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2024 Schedule

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Grand Station Foyer and Reflections Ballroom

Registration, Breakfast, & Networking with Vendors

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Magee-Womens Summit Opening: Setting the Stage

Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD

Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD
8:15 AM - 8:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Opening Keynote: The Next Hera - Elevating Care for Women

Elizabeth Comen, MD

Elizabeth Comen, MD
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Grand Station Ballroom

The World Around Us Keynote: Influencing Agriculture and Food Production for Sustainable Diets in Africa

Judy Omumbo, PhD

Judy Omumbo, PhD
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 1: Climate Change Impacts on Women’s Health

Gwen W. Collman, PhD

Gwen W. Collman, PhD
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

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
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 3: Fossil Fuel Pollution, Climate Change, and Women’s Health

Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH

Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Grand Station Ballroom

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

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

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
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Grand Station Foyer and Reflections Ballroom

Lunch & Networking with Vendors

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Fountainview Room (In-Person Only)

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

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM Ellewood Suite 1 and 2 (In-Person Only)

Lunch Breakout Session 2: Women’s Health: The Future of Truly Personalized Medicine

Oriana Kraft, FemTechnology

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM Brighton Rooms 1-4 (In-Person Only)

Lunch Breakout Session 3: Delivering Women-Centric Care

Amy Bruhn, Genentech

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Grand Station Ballroom

The World Within Us Keynote: Host-Microbiome Interaction in Health and Disease

Eran Elinav, MD, PhD

Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 1: Targeting the Microbiome to Promote Health and End Cancer

Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc

Jennifer Wargo, MD, MMSc
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 2: Incorporating the Human Microbiome into Precision Medicine

Barbara Methé, PhD

Barbara Methé, PhD
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 3: Why Does Development Rely on the Microbiome?

Eldin Jašarević, PhD

Eldin Jašarević, PhD
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Grand Station Ballroom

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 Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Maisa Feghali, MD, MSCR Maisa Feghali, MD, MSCR
Charlese McKinney Charlese McKinney
Tim Hand, PhD
Eran Elinav, MD, PhD
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 4:25 PM Grand Station Ballroom

Magee Prize Presentations

4:25 PM - 4:30 PM Grand Station Ballroom

Transition to Breakout Sessions

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Brighton Rooms 1-4

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
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Ellewood Suite 1 and 2

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 Tamar Gur, MD, PhD
Harold Wiesenfeld, MD Harold Wiesenfeld, MD
Tim Hand, PhD
Barbara Methé, PhD
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Fountainview Room

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
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Reflections Ballroom

Break, Poster Session, Cocktail Reception, & Industry Networking

Yoel Sadovsky, MD, CTSI, Judith Yanowitz, PhD, Kelly Gray

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Grand Station Ballroom

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
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Grand Station Foyer and Reflections Ballroom

Registration, Breakfast, & Networking with Vendors

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Grand Station Ballroom

The World We Form Keynote: Stem Cells, Reproductive Health and Society

Amander Clark, PhD

Amander Clark, PhD
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Grand Station Ballroom

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
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 1: Building Human Biomimetic Models with Engineered Organoids

Ipsita Banerjee, PhD

Ipsita Banerjee, PhD
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 2: Sertoli Cell Gene Therapy for Male Infertility

Kyle Orwig, PhD

Kyle Orwig, PhD
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Spotlight 3: Modelling Post-Implantation Human Development to Yolk Sac Blood Emergence

Mo Ebrahimkhani, MD

Mo Ebrahimkhani, MD
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

The World We Form Keynote: Organoid Systems as a Window into Women's Reproductive Health

Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD

Margherita Yayoi Turco, PhD
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Grand Station Ballroom

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

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM Grand Station Ballroom

Closing Remarks

Michael Annichine, President and CEO

Michael Annichine, CEO
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Grand Station Foyer and Reflections Ballroom

Lunch & Networking with Vendors