WHO
PREBIC
PRETERM BIRTH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE
Department of Reproductive Health and Research
World Health Organization

27-29 April 2009; WHO Headquarters, Geneva
EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM


AGENDA
Monday 27, April 2009
9.00 – 12.15 Plenary Session: Chairperson: Michael Katz, MD
9.00 - 9.10 Mario Merialdi, MD, PhD
WHO Reproductive Health and Research Department
Welcome to PREBIC Participants
9.10 – 9.30 Calvin J. Hobel, MD
Miriam Jacobs Chair in Maternal Fetal Medicine
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
PREBIC President’s Address
9.30 – 9.45 Michael Katz, MD
Senior Vice President for Research and Global Programs March of Dimes
Carpentier Professor, Emeritus of Pediatrics and Professor, Emeritus of Public Health, Columbia University
"Funding of Research After the Bubble Burst"
9.45 – 10.30 Uma M. Reddy, MD, MPH
Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
"Healthy Babies—Healthy People: 21st Century Research Agenda for Reducing the Burden of Preterm Birth"
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.15 Kenneth Ward, MD
Director, Juneau Biosciences and Lucina Foundation
Salt Lake City, Utah
"Preterm Birth-Ancestry Informed GWAS"
11.15 – 11.45 Robert N. Taylor, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Research, Dept. of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Director, Pilot and Collaborative Projects, Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Inst. (CTSA)
"Endocrinology of Preterm Birth"
11.45 – 12.05 2008 – Working Groups Reports
11.45 – 11.50 Gunvor-Ekman Ordeberg, MD, PhD
Genomics and Proteomic in Preterm Birth
11.50 – 11.55 Ramkumar Menon, MS, PhD
Biomarkers of Preterm Birth
11.55 – 12.00 Juan Manual Nardin, MD, PhD - Epidemiology and Global Health
12.00 – 12.05 Niels Uldbjerg, MD, PhD - Pathways of Preterm Birth
12.05 – 12.15 Working Group Assignment and Expected Outcomes
12.05 – 12.10 Introduction to working groups
Ramkumar Menon, MS, PhD
12.10 – 12.15 Working Group Assignment and Expected Outcomes
Calvin Hobel, MD
12.15 -13.30 Lunch (On your own)
2009 Working Groups - Facilitators/co-facilitators and room assignments will be available at the meeting
Group # 1 Biomarkers in Preterm Birth
Group # 2 Transcriptomics and Proteomics In Preterm Birth
Group # 3 International Studies: Epidemiology and Management of Preterm Birth
Group # 4 Pathways of Preterm Birth
Group # 5 Epidemiology
Group # 6 Animal Models in Preterm Birth
Group # 7 Method Developments in Maternal-Fetal Genetic Interaction studies
13.30 - 15.30 Working Group Sessions
Setting of Objectives
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 - 17.30 Working Group Sessions
Protocol Development
18.00 Buffet dinner at WHO cafeteria
Tuesday 28, April 2009
9.00 - 10.45 Plenary Session: Chairperson: Mario Merialdi, MD, PhD
9.00 - 9.15 Elizabeth A. Bonney, MD
Professor, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
"Animal Models in Preterm Birth"
9.15 - 9.30 Michael G. Gravett, MD
Professor & Vice Chair
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
"OMICS" in Preterm Birth
9.30 - 9.45 Craig Pennel, MD
Associate Professor in Maternal Fetal Medicine
School of Women's and Infants' Health
The University of Western Australia, Australia
"Preterm Birth Genome Project - An update"
9.45 -10.00 Sandor Vari, MD, PH.D.
Director, International Research and Innovation Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
"Research Networking in Central and Eastern Europe for Higher Output of Research Related to Preterm Birth Prevention and Management"
10.00 - 10.35 Presentations by group facilitators (5 minutes each)
"Working Group Objectives"
10.35 - 10.45 Coffee Break
10.45 - 12.30 Working Group Sessions continued
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch (on your own)
13.30 - 15.30 Working Group Sessions continued
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee Break
15.45 - 16.30 Working Group Sessions continued
16.30 - 18.00 Presentations by Working Groups
Objectives Achieved and Commitments for the Future
Group work on achieving objectives and setting commitments for the ongoing work grouping 2009. Each group will be expected to report on the fulfilment of their commitments at the 2010 PREBIC meeting.
18.00 Buffet dinner at WHO cafeteria
Wednesday 29, April 2009
8.00 - 9.00 Working Groups Wrap Up
9.00 - 10.30 Plenary Session- PREBIC Strategic Planning
Discussion leaders Calvin J. Hobel, MD, Ramkumar Menon, PhD, Mario Merialdi, MD, PhD, Joy Marini MSPA-C-

PREBIC Organization
PREBIC Registration
Establishment of PREBIC Editorial Board
Membership Project
Implementation strategies
Timeline
18.00 Conference adjourns