This special three-day meeting will feature a look back at accomplishments in the field, special calls for abstracts, award presentations, and a cocktail reception and gala.

Advanced Methods Workshop - follow this link to see more...

Instrumental Variables: Maria Glymour
“Absolute Epidemiology”: Jay Kaufman and Ashley Schempf

Clinician Workshop - Perinatal Epidemiology for Clinicians - follow this link to see more...
Olga Basso & Allen Wilcox

Epidemic of iatrogenic late preterm birth: are the current rates of obstetric intervention justified?

Moderator: Dr. Christine Roberts
Epidemiologists: Drs. Michael Kramer & K.S Joseph
Clinicians: Drs. Mary D’Alton & Jay Iams

Plenary I: Gynecological Disorders
Moderator: Dr. Bernard Harlow

• 8:00-8:05: Overview of benign gynecological disorders - B Harlow
• 8:05-8:30: Advances and Setbacks in Benign Gynecological Disorder Research- Is the etiology still mysterious? - Session keynote speaker - D Baird
• 8:30-8:50: Novel bacteria associated with pelvic inflammatory disease -  CL Haggerty
• 8:50-9:10: Teen menstrual characteristics, cumulative bleeding days and risk of endometriosis - K Upson
• 9:10-9:30: Birth weight and polycystic ovary syndrome in adult life. A register-based study on 523,757 Danish women born 1973-1991 - M Kamper-Jørgensen

Plenary II: Fertility and Fecundity
Moderator: Dr. Nel Roeleveld

• 10:00-10:05: Fertility: What are we talking about? - N Roeleveld
• 10:05-10:20: A comparison of measurement approaches for estimating the prevalence of infertility in the National Survey of Family Growth - M Thoma
• 10:20-10:35: Body size and time-to-pregnancy in the Black Women’s Health Study - L Wise
• 10:35-10:50: Physical activity and television watching in relation to semen quality in young men - A Gaskins
• 10:50-11:05: Increased levels of physiologic stress are associated with decreased fecundability: results from a couple-based prospective study, The LIFE Study - C Lynch
• 11:05-11:30: Session keynote speaker - G Louis

Lunch and Poster Session A
(Box lunch included as part of registration)

• 11:45: Le Tour de Poster 1
• 12:15: Le Tour de Poster 2

Plenary III: Gravid Health
Moderator: Dr. Martin Kharrazi

• 1:00-1:25: Session keynote speaker - M Williams
• 1:25-1:40: Risk of preeclampsia in pregnancies from assisted reproductive technologies - A Tandberg
• 1:40-1:55: Prepregnancy low levels of adiponectin are associated with increased risk of gestational diabetes (GDM) - M Hedderson
• 1:55-2:10: Maternal and neonatal risks following emergency-timing repeat cesarean delivery - J Hutcheon
• 2:10-2:25: Incidence and outcomes of pregnancy-associated cancer - C Roberts
• 2:25-2:30: Closing remarks - M Kharrazi

Plenary IV: Pregnancy Outcomes
Moderator: Dr. Martha Werler

• 3:15-3:20: What we weren’t thinking about 25 years ago - M Werler
• 3:20-3:35: Sex of the first born in relation to the risk of stillbirth, preterm birth, post-term birth, placental abruption, preeclampsia and eclampsia in the subsequent birth. A study of 2.3 million second births from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden - LH Mortensen
• 3:35-3:50: Pooled nested case-control study of maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D status and preterm delivery - C Ferre         
• 3:50-4:05: Medical history of depression and risk for gestational diabetes-findings from a large population-based cohort in the United States - KA Bowers
• 4:05-4:20: Effects of pre-pregnancy exercise and sleep during pregnancy on preterm delivery among working women in southern California - M Pearl
• 4:20-4:45: Different aspects of recurrence of pregnancy outcome/complications between generations. Session keynote speaker - R Skjærven

SPER 25th Anniversary Gala - follow this link for more information

Join your friends and colleagues for a festive dinner to celebrate 25 years of SPER.  This exciting event will include an awards ceremony and society retrospective by Past President, Germaine Buck Louis, PhD.

Plenary V: Child Development and Behavior
Moderator: Dr. Fiona Stanley

• 8:00-8:25: Session keynote speaker: Michael O’Shea
• 8:25-8:40: Racial/ethnic and family income differences in diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for US children aged 7-11, National Health Interview Survey 1999-2010 P Pastor
• 8:40-8:55: Associations between maternal prepregnancy body mass index and child neurodevelopment at 2 years of age S Hinkle
• 8:55-9:10: Do population-wide interventions narrow or widen socioeconomic disparities? The case of a breastfeeding promotion intervention. S Yang
• 9:10-9:25: Maternal pregnancy glucose levels and adiposity in 11 y-old girls: the CYGNET Study. A Kubo
• 9:25- 9:30: Closing remarks: F Stanley

Plenary VI: Exposome
Moderator: Dr. Irva Hertz-Picciotto

• 10:00-10:25: Session keynote speaker:  C Patel
• 10:25-10:40: Time dependent associations between maternal caffeine consumption and intrauterine growth restriction. A Nunes
• 10:40-10:55: Maternal vitamin D status and risk of preeclampsia. L Bodnar
• 10:55-11:10: Maternal health after gestational hypertension in Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966. T Männistö
• 11:10-11:25: Night and rotating shift work in relation to hormones across the menstrual cycle. P Mendola
• 11:25-11:35: Closing remarks: I Hertz-Picciotto

• 11:45: Le Tour de Poster 1
• 12:15: Le Tour de Poster 2

Featured Keynote Speaker:

"Research through the Life Course: The View from NICHD”
Dr. Alan Guttmacher

Plenary VII: Methods
Moderator: Dr. Stephen Cole

• 2:30-2:55: Last 25 years of methods: Session keynote speaker:  Last 25 years of methods: Enrique Schisterman
• 2:55-3:20: Intermediates, sensitivity analysis and unmeasured confounding in perinatal epidemiology. T VanderWeel
• 3:20-3:35: Weighted logistic regression for multiple bias analysis. C Johnson
• 3:35-3:50: The causal effect of childbearing on postpartum obesity risk: a propensity-score analysis W Robinson
• 3:50-4:00: Next 25 years of methods: S Cole

Future Directions In Reproductive Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology
Moderator: Dr. Mark Klebanoff

• Panel Members:
  • Dr. Claudia Holzman
  • Dr. Gary Shaw
  • Dr. Lisa Bodnar
  • Dr. David Savitz
  • Dr. Robert Platt
  • Dr. Roberta Ness