Fertility Summit Home   Summit Agenda   Session Blogs   General Summit Blog

Sunday – Background and Context   Monday – Science Overviews   Tuesday – Implications of Science

SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 2007  –  BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

• 12:30pm -- Poster Set-up and Registration

……………………

• 1:30–2:30pm -- Pre-Conference Session: Introduction to Reproductive Biology, Development and Toxicology
  Moderator: Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
  Co-Lecturers: L. Earl Gray, Jr., PhD;  Frederick vom Saal, PhD
  

……………………

• 3:00–3:10pm -- Welcome
  Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc;  Philip R. Lee, MD
  

……………………

• 3:10–3:40pm -- Opening Panel: What is This Summit About? Setting the Stage, Posing the Central Questions
  Moderator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  Panelists: Ted Schettler, MD, MPH; Patricia Hunt, PhD; Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, MPH; Jerrold Heindel, PhD; Pamela Madsen; Tina Eshaghpour; Edith T. Eddy, MEd
  

……………………

• 3:40–4:15pm -- Lessons Learned From Wildlife and Experimental Animal Data
  Moderator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  Lecturer: Louis J. Guillette, Jr., PhD
  Respondent: Tyrone B. Hayes, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

4:15–4:25 -- BREAK

……………………

• 4:25–5:00pm -- New Conceptual Frameworks and Challenges in the Investigation and Practice of Environmental Reproductive Health
  Moderator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  Co-Lecturers: John Peterson Myers, PhD; Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

• 5:00-5:25pm -- Definition and Measurement of Reproductive Health and Fertility Compromise: Determining Appropriate Endpoints for Study
  Moderator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  Lecturer: Shanna H. Swan, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

5:25–5:35 -- BREAK
……………………

• 5:35–5:55pm -- The Bad Actors: What are the Contaminant Classes/Types of Concern for Environmental Reproductive Health?
  Moderator: Philip R. Lee, MD
  Lecturer: Linda Birnbaum, PhD, DABT
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

• 5:55–6:15pm -- Measurements of Contaminants in People: What Have We Learned? What Can We Conclude?
  Moderator: Philip R. Lee, MD
  Lecturer: Richard Jackson, MD, MPH
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

• 6:15–6:45pm -- KEYNOTE: Environment and the Reproductive Lifespan: Critical Windows of Vulnerability and the Importance of Clinical Collaboration
  Moderator: Philip R. Lee, MD
  Keynoter: Lynn Goldman, MD, MPH
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

• 6:45–8:15pm -- SUMMIT RECEPTION and POSTERS Session I
  Tapas buffet and refreshment
  Ceremony: 7:15pm
  Honoree: Theo Colborn, PhD
  

……………………
    


MONDAY JANUARY 29, 2007  –  SCIENCE OVERVIEWS

• 8:00–8:05am -- Recap of Sunday
  Speaker: Andrea C. Gore, PhD
  

……………………

• 8:05–8:40am -- Genes, Environment and Reproductive Health
  Moderator: Renee Reijo-Pera, PhD
  Lecturer: Louis J. Guillette, Jr., PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Blog
  

……………………

8:40 -- Stand and Stretch BREAK
……………………

• 8:45–10:15am -- Review I:  Fetal and Early Postnatal Environmental Contaminant Exposures and Reproductive Health Effects in the Male ♂
  Session Chair: L. Earl Gray, Jr., PhD
  Co-presenters: Richard Sharpe; PhD; Niels E. Skakkebaek, MD
  Recent data report: Shanna H. Swan, PhD
  Respondent Panel: Laurence S. Baskin, MD; Rex A. Hess, PhD;  Gail S. Prins, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

10:15–10:30 -- BREAK
……………………

• 10:30–11:55am -- Review II: Fetal and Early Postnatal Environmental Contaminant Exposures and Reproductive Health Effects in the Female ♀
  Session Chair: Kevin G. Osteen, PhD
  Co-presenters: Cheryl L. Walker, PhD; Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD
  Recent data report: Hugh Taylor, MD
  Respondent Panel: Warren G. Foster, PhD; Patricia B. Hoyer, PhD; Retha R. Newbold, MS
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

• 11:55–12:00pm -- Health-Affected Group Representative Plenary Response to the morning’s presentations
  Speaker: Mary Lou Ballweg
  

……………………

• 12:00–1:00pm -- LUNCH and Lunch Circles
  Summit participants sign up for Monday lunch circle/topic of choice first come, first served basis during on-site registration beginning Sunday at 12:30pm.
  

……………………

• 1:05–2:20pm -- Review III:  Science Linking  Environmental  Contaminant Exposures with Fertility and Reproductive Health Impacts in the Adult Male ♂
  Session Chair: Susan Benoff, PhD
  Co-presenters: Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH; Rebecca Z. Sokol, MD, MPH
  Recent data report: Susan Benoff, PhD
  Respondent Panel: Michael P. Diamond, MD; Bernard Robaire, PhD; Paul J. Turek, MD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

2:20–2:30 -- BREAK
……………………

• 2:30–3:40pm -- Review IV:  Science Linking Environmental Contaminant Exposures with Fertility and Reproductive Health Impacts in the Adult Female ♀
  Session Chair: Arthur Leader, MD, FRCSC
  Presenter: Pauline Mendola, PhD
  Recent data reports: Patricia Hunt, PhD; David L. Keefe, MD
  Respondent Panel: Anne R.Greenlee, PhD; Michele Marcus, PhD, MPH
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

• 3:40-3:45pm -- Health Group Representative Plenary Response to the afternoon’s presentations
  Speaker: Dian Harrison, MSW
  

……………………

3:45–3:55 -- BREAK
……………………

• 3:55–4:25pm -- Environmental Neuroendocrine and Thyroid Disruption: Relevance for Reproductive Medicine?
  Session Chair: Douglas L. Foster, PhD
  Lecturer: R. Thomas Zoeller, PhD
  Respondent: Andrea C. Gore, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

• 4:25–4:50pm -- Environmental Immune Disruption: A Co-Morbidity Factor for Reproduction?
  Moderator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  Lecturer: Sherry E. Rier, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

• 4:50–5:30pm -- Special Panel: Environmental Reproductive Health in Disproportionately Impacted Communities: What’s The Current “On The Ground” Reality? (Translating Science for Advocacy, and Advocacy for Science)
  Moderator: Kevin Grumbach, MD
  Panelists: Ronald Plain; Pamela Miller, M.En; Karen Goodson Pierce; Mark A. Mitchell, MD, MPH
  Blog
         This session's Q & A period is very brief and will not field questions from the blog. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.
  

……………………

• 5:35–6:35pm -- Concurrent Session Options
  
  
• Priority Contaminant Reviews – The very latest data on selected chemicals and heavy metals of priority concern:
  Bisphenol A and Phthalates
  Moderator: Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
  Presenters: Russ Hauser, MD, ScD, MPH; Frederick vom Saal, PhD
  Brominated Flame Retardants, Perflorinated Compounds, and Heavy Metals 
  Moderator: Victor Y. Fujimoto, MD
  Presenters: Susan Benoff, PhD; Linda Birnbaum, PhD, DABT; Christopher S. Lau, PhD
  
  
• Alterations in Puberty – For those with a specific interest in puberty onset and progression related effects of exposure to environmental contaminants.
  Moderator: Warren G. Foster, PhD
  Presenters: L. Earl Gray, Jr., PhD; Sherry G. Selevan; PhD
  Respondents: Susan Y. Euling, PhD; Elizabeth A. Guillette, PhD
  
  
• Reproductive Health Advocacy and Justice Meets Environmental Health and Justice – An introductory forum for reproductive advocacy leaders and others interested in (or already incorporating) environmental health into organizational agendas. 
  Moderator: Kirsten Moore, MPA
  Commentators: Charlotte Brody, RN; Vanessa E. Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA
  
  
• New Tools and Approaches for Understanding Environmental Influences on Disease – Learn about toxicogenomics, metabolomics, proteomics, and more.
  Moderator: Jerrold J. (Jerry) Heindel, PhD
  Presenters: David M. Balshaw, PhD; Bruce D. Hammock, PhD
  
  
• Poster Session II
  

……………………

Open Evening….

Special Event, open to Summit participants and the public     

Film Screening:  The Beloved Community
A film by Pamela Calvert/Plain Speech; A presentation of Detroit Public Television
7:30 pm reception, 8:00 pm screening at the Delancey Street Screening Room, 600 Embarcadero (between Bryant and Brannan), San Francisco

In the summer of 2004, Canadian health researchers made a startling discovery in the Aamjiwnaang (Chippewa) birth records for the city of Sarnia, an hour north of Detroit:  For the past decade, girl babies had been outnumbering boys at a rate of 2:1. Further investigation revealed large numbers of miscarriages, a cluster of reproductive cancers in young women, and widespread neurological problems among the band's children. The Beloved Community looks at a Great Lakes oil town facing a toxic legacy head-on.

This screening is a presentation of the UCSF-CHE Summit, and is co-sponsored by Literacy for Environmental Justice and Pesticide Action Network. Admission is free; seating is limited.
Special Guest: Ronald Plain, Environment Committee, Aamjiwnaang First Nation.    
……………………



TUESDAY JANUARY 30, 2007 – IMPLICATIONS OF THE SCIENCE

• 8:00–8:05am -- Recap of Monday  
  Speaker: Richard Sharpe, PhD
  

……………………

• 8:05–8:50am -- Review V: Environmental Contaminants and Pregnancy Outcomes:  Exposure Associations with Prematurity, IUGR, Low Birth Weight, Stillbirth
  Session Chair: Brenda Eskenazi, PhD
  Lecturers: Laura Fenster, PhD; Gayle C.Windham, PhD, MSPH
  Respondent: Sherry G. Selevan, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………       

• 8:50–9:15am -- So What Can We Say About Periconception as a Critical Window? Advising the Pregnancy Planning Couple
  Moderator: Victor Y. Fujimoto, MD
  Lecturer: Germaine M. Buck Louis, PhD
  Plenary Q & A / Discussion / Blog
  

……………………

9:15–9:20 -- Brief Stand and Stretch BREAK

……………………

• 9:20–12:00 -- The Village Green/Plenary Conversations on Stage
  Plenary attendees will be invited to add their perspectives to the conversations initiated on stage.
  
  Lively trans-discipline exchange of ideas and debate on the implications of the science, and critical environmental reproductive health issues and practice – among researchers, health professionals, patient and community leaders, policy makers, funders, and other Summit participants.
  

……………………

• 9:20–10:00am -- Conversation I:  Current Evidence Concerning EnvironmentalReproductive Health: Medical Recommendations and Practice
  (What do health professionals do based on current evidence?)
  Moderator: Ted Schettler, MD
  Conversationalists: Charlotte Brody, RN; Jewel L. Crawford, MD; Joseph C. Isaacs, MSPH; Ruth Shaber, MD; Gina Solomon, MD, MPH
  Blog
         This session does not have a Q & A period. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.

……………………

• 10:00–10:30am -- Conversation II:  Environmental Health Science in Health Professional Education: A Conversation Among Deans
  Moderator: Nancy Milliken, MD
  Conversationalists: Kathleen A. Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, FAAN; David A Kessler, MD; David Lambert, MD
  Blog
         This session does not have a Q & A period. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.

……………………

10:30–10:45 -- BREAK
……………………

• 10:45–11:15am -- Conversation III:  Reproductive Health Clinicians and Scientists Discuss What They Need and Can Learn From Each Other – and How They Can Collaborate to Advance Their Work and the Field
  Moderator: Andrea C. Gore, PhD
  Conversationalists: Jerrold J. (Jerry) Heindel, PhD; Hugh S. Taylor, MD; other(s) TBA
  Blog
         This session does not have a Q & A period. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.

……………………

• 11:15–11:45am -- Conversation IV:  Environmental Reproductive Health Research, the Media and Public Perception (The power and responsibility of the media in shaping public understanding; What researchers and journalists wish the other paid more attention to…)
  Moderator: John Peterson Myers, PhD
  Conversationalists: Marla Cone; Douglas Fischer; Tyrone B. Hayes, PhD; Jane Kay
  Blog
         This session does not have a Q & A period. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.

……………………

• 11:45–12:15pm -- Conversation V:  Our Federal Government and Environmental Reproductive Health: Priorities, Commitments and Challenges
  Moderator: Sally Perreault Darney, PhD
  Conversationalists: Christopher T. De Rosa, MS, PhD; Elaine Z. Francis, PhD; William J. Martin II, MD
  Blog
         This session does not have a Q & A period. However, comments, questions and ideas posted here will be collected and reviewed after the summit.

……………………

12:15–1:10pm -- LUNCH
Why Birds and Bees Really Are Part of the Story: An Ecologist's View on Reproductive Health and Fertility    
Introduction: Devra Davis, PhD, MPH
Speaker: Sandra Steingraber, PhD, Author of Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood and Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
……………………

• 1:15 – 2:45pm -- What’s Next? BREAK-OUT DISCUSSION/Strategic Planning Groups
  (Breakout group sign-up begins on a first come, first served basis at registration on Sunday, January 28th)
  
  Summit participants gather in 5 smaller topic-based groups to digest/discuss the implications of the science and issues raised during the, and to outline potential agendas, collaborative initiatives, or other “next steps.” Groups will be led by advance-prepared co-leaders, who will be responsible for composing a written summary of their breakout group discussion and conclusions immediately following the Summit. UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment may coordinate working groups and collaborative initiatives that are inspired by or shaped in breakout groups, as appropriate.
  

1. Helping Health Professionals and Patient Advocates Communicate Risks of Reproductive/ Developmental Toxicants: What do health professionals and advocates do based on the evidence to date? How do they decide what to communicate about? What do health professionals need in order to translate current evidence to the clinic?
   Leaders: Mark Miller, MD; Julia Quint, PhD
   
   
2. Critical research directions and collaborations: What are the most critical research directions/tools this meeting has identified? What are key research areas that basic scientists and epidemiologists, clinical researchers, and patient/community representatives might work on together? (What key questions would such research efforts address?)
   Leaders: Andrea C. Gore, PhD; Sarah J. Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH
   
   
3. Identifying policy priorities: What are the priority areas that can be pursued through the policy process? What are important next steps in addressing policy needs?
   Leader: Miriam F. Gordon; Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
   
   
4. Reproductive Health Advocacy and Justice Meets Environmental Health and Justice: The nexus between women’s and family health, reproductive rights/justice, and environmental health and justice.  
   Leaders: Rivka Gordon, PA-C, MHS; Kirsten Moore, MPA
   
   
5. Safe Work: What do we know/need to know about the risks of working with reproductive and developmental toxicants? What are the implications of the scientific evidence for working people and their representatives/advocates? How does/can environmental health science factor into the agendas of organizations representing labor and working people? How can environmental health science support organizations serving the needs of working people?
   Leaders: Amanda Hawes, JD; Catherine Porter, JD
   

……………………

2:45–3:00 -- BREAK and Breakout Group leaders write-up time    
……………………

• 3:00–3:40pm -- Plenary Interviews with Breakout Group Leaders   
  Moderator: Michael Lerner, PhD
  Leaders of each Breakout Group discuss in a town hall format what the most important, surprising and inspiring take-aways/next steps from their groups are.
  Plenary comment, question and interaction
  

……………………

• 3:40–4:10pm -- Wrap Discussion and Strategic Planning Synthesis
  Chairs/Vice-Chairs synthesize key issues, points, challenges and agendas gleaned from report back interview session, with input invited from the plenary, and an eye toward the future…
  Moderators: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc; Philip R. Lee, MD; Michael Lerner, PhD
  Panelists: TBA
  Plenary comment, question and interaction
  

……………………

• 4:10–4:15pm -- Summit Closing Remarks
  Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
  

……………………

POST-SUMMIT

4:45–6:15pm -- FERHC Meeting (Invitational, onsite; Late afternoon refreshment and light finger foods provided)  Relevant reproductive biology, toxicology and medicine society representatives to a proposed Federation of Environmental Reproductive Health Committees meet to discuss and plan coordination among environment committee leaders (official or ad hoc) across the spectrum of engaged societies.    
Facilitator: Linda C. Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc
……………………

For more information please contact Mary Wade, Summit Manager, at: wadem@obgyn.ucsf.edu or (415) 476-2563.

TOP