Events / 44th Annual OB Symposium

44th Annual OB Symposium

7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Eric P. Newman Education Center, 320 S. Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18th

7:30am Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:10 Welcome – Randall R. Odem, MD
Session I:  Gynecology Moderator – Tammy S. Sonn, MD
8:15 Current Evaluation and Management of Urgency Urinary
Incontinence: An Update for Ob/Gyns

Jerry L. Lowder, MD, MS
8:50 Treatment of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause
Andrew M. Kaunitz MD, FACOG, NCMP
9:25  Breastfeeding: Optimizing Your Patient’s Experience 
Camaryn Chrisman Robbins, MD, MPH
10:00 Refreshment Break
10:30 JAMES R. SCHREIBER LECTURE: Management of Menopausal
Symptoms
 – Andrew M. Kaunitz MD, FACOG, NCMP
11:05 Breast Cancer Topics in the Media
Julie A. Margenthaler, MD, FACS
11:40 Question & Answer Session
12:00pm Luncheon (to be provided for paid registrants)
Session II:  Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility 
Moderator – Stephanie Jean Gunderson, MD
1:00 Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Fertility Preservation:
Pre-Treatment Through Survivorship –
Holly R. Hoefgen, MD
1:35 IVF: Facts or Fiction – Jennifer E. Mersereau, MD, MSCI
2:10 The 7 Habits of Highly Fertile People?
Emily S. Jungheim, MD, MSCI
2:45 Refreshment Break
3:00 Elective Egg Banking – Jennifer E. Mersereau, MD, MSCI
3:35 Understanding Male Infertility Management
Dane Johnson, MD
4:10 Question & Answer Session
4:30 Adjourn
4:30 Reception in Lobby
Sponsored by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th

7:45am Continental Breakfast
Session III:  Maternal Fetal Medicine Moderator – Antonina I. Frolova, MD, PhD
8:15 Category II Intrauterine Resuscutation: Evidence Based Updates
Nandini Raghuraman, MD, MS
8:50 Immediate Postpartum Care of Women with Preeclampsia
Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE
9:25 Hot Off the Press: ARRIVe Trial and the OMSS Trial
Alison G. Cahill, MD, MSCI 
10:00 Refreshment Break
10:30 ROY PETRIE MEMORIAL LECTURE: Disparities in Maternal
Outcomes and Innovative Approaches to Care Delivery

Sindhu K. Srinivas, MD, MSCE
11:05 The Drug-Exposed Neonate and Neonatal Abstinence
Syndrome:  Risks, Identification and Therapies

Samuel Julian, MD
11:40 Question & Answer Session
12:00pm Luncheon (to be provided for paid registrants)
Session IV:  Gynecologic Oncology Moderator – Premal H. Thaker, MD, MS
1:00 Cervical Cancer Prevention Update 2018
L. Stewart Massad Jr., MD
1:35 Vulvar Disease and Therapy for Pre-Invasive Vulvar Lesions
Randall K. Gibb, MD, FACOG
2:10 Personalized Molecular Diagnostics for Cancer Treatment:
A Technology Whose Time Has Come

Pro-David G. Mutch, MD,  Con-Carolyn McCourt, MD
2:45  Refreshment Break
3:00 Business of Medicine: Future of Health Care
in Rural Communities

Randall K. Gibb, MD, FACOG
3:35 Weighing the Options for Obesity Management:
How Can We Reduce Endometrial Cancer Rates?

Andrea R. Hagemann, MD, MSCI
4:10 Question & Answer Session
4:30 Adjourn