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International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,1 International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,2 34th Annual Meeting of the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Hersonissos, Crete, Greece Hersonissos, Crete, Greece June, 19-23, 2015 June, 19-23, 2015 Information for members and accompanying persons Version 14/6/2015 Check the website for latest version Print before coming (11 printed A4 sides) You will not receive a printed copy International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,3 International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,4 Dear Friends, may work wonders in that case. If you appreciate their efforts, please join us in thanking the people from our staff a tremendous job in bringing us this far. Less than two years ago, the organization of the 34th annual meeting of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society was assigned to the Leuven‐team. Whilst looking forward to Belgian haute cuisine and beers, most society members worried about the weather in October. Fortunately, last year we engineered a solution Your Organizing Committee for the latter problem. Why not have the meeting on the sun‐soaked Mediterranean Sea, in an even more stunning historical location than Bruges, Ghent or Brussels? The true reason for this unusual move if not risk, only nine months after an extremely well attended and successful meeting at Chatham, Cape Cod, is not cultural or indeed metereologic. The Executive Board of the IFMSS agreed to exceptionally compromise the intimate atmosphere of our meeting and welcome over 1,500 Jan Deprest, MD Luc Decatte, MD young international fetal medicine specialists as they attend the greatest annual educational event in fetal medicine, i.e. the World Congress of Fetal Medicine hosted by the Fetal Medicine Foundation. The key words at that Board Meeting were “young” (as in young investigator) and “future” (as in future membership). Indeed through joint sessions IFMSS would (and will!) reach out to a clinical audience that is eager to understand how we practice fetal medicine and surgery. I thank many of you who will contribute with educational lectures to the joint sessions on Sunday and Monday morning, introducing a selected number of items on the agenda. Roland Devlieger, MD Liesbeth Lewi, MD We will also stage our best ranked young investigators with top translational and basic research in perinatal medicine. We have expanded the support to them, by awarding this year nine travel grants (their smaller scale seemed justified as proportional to the registration fee). I am aware this means quite a change from the family meeting you are used to. Most strikingly will be the massive scale of the joint sessions. Yet our membership should not refrain from engaging with debates on those days. Conversely, we have included in our program new faces giving their first presentations at IFMSS. Make them feel Tim Van Mieghem, MD Stavros Loukogeorgakis home in the IFMSS family during breaks and social functions. Make presenting teams feel the added value of this MD* family, by constructively questioning them, so that they know that this society is the place for a first review of new work. After all, this was the ultimate goal: expand our membership with new teams and young entrepreneurial researchers joining us at forthcoming conferences. Obviously, this comes at a price. For one‐and‐a‐half days you will be immersed in a vast number of attendants from over 50 countries. As we aimed to reduce the registration cost, the social program has a lesser exotic flavor than usual. Yet, our visit to Knossos will enable you to delve into history. And we have scheduled two entertaining Leen Mortier Petra Stevens social functions that will show new members what IFMSS‐family life is like. I thank‐you for trusting us to go off the beaten track. I thank‐you for supporting the scientific program which * is a part time researcher of the Faculty of Medicine at the KU Leuven, but above all, born in Crete. almost exceeds last year’s record of over 140 presentations. I thank Kypros Nicolaides and his Fetal Medicine Foundation and the Eurofoetus group who have opened their doors to us. So many of you have attended the FMF‐Eurofoetus conference, a meeting where the sky is the limit and the timing is irrelevant. One must admit Questions? Don’t hesitate to call us: the World Congress of Fetal Medicine has become the landmark meeting for young trainees and researchers. This first‐time joint experiment should and will work. Jan Deprest +32 496 23 99 92 Leen Mortier +32 476 69 99 69 Meanwhile, a very warm welcome to Hersonissos and Crete! Though you may have traded in some of Belgium’s Petra Stevens + 32 472 67 89 96 pleasures, we took care to serve you in between the science, the best this island can offer: sun, music, food, Fellows: wine, nature and history. Patrice Eastwood +32 487 27 15 49 Alexander Engels +32 483 41 16 86 Since we were not sure the euro would still be around, we have (virtually) prepaid everything out of a budget Julio Jimenez +32 487 36 27 50 you may have noticed to be a bit lower than usual. Again, to reduce the organizational cost, we have worked Luc Joyeux +32 468 25 74 73 with a small army of volunteers from Leuven, expanded with local support from the island. Please ask any of the Molka Kammoun +32 485 53 39 60 staff for support, yet we ask for your understanding if proceedings are not always quite perfect. A bit of patience Francesca Russo +32 487 85 51 23 International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,5 International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,6 About the logo 14th World Congress in Fetal Medicine 21 to 25 June 2015, Crete, Greece The World Congress is designed both for those specializing in fetal‐maternal medicine and those with a more general clinical interest who want to be updated on developments in the field. Leading international experts and young researchers will present and discuss the latest developments in fetal medicine. The first two days of that World Congress (Sunday and Monday) are common with our annual meeting of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society (IFMSS) which is held in the same location on June 19th to June 23rd. The World Congress in Fetal Medicine is an annual event that has attracted a yearly increasing number of participants. Previous meetings were in: 2014 Nice, France 2013 Marbella, Spain This year’s logo is designed by Wouter Vergote from KPOT design (Wijgmaal, Belgium). It refers to one tool of 2012 Kos, Greece the modern fetal surgeon as well as the Fetal Medicine Foundation. We could not resist to give it a little flavor 2011 St Julians, Malta of the organizing country that you should visit one other time. 2010 Rhodes, Greece 2009 Portorose, Slovenia 2008 Sorrento, Italy 2007 Cavtat, Croatia 2006 Barcelona, Spain 2005 Istanbul, Turkey 2004 Limassol, Cyprus 2003 Lisbon, Portugal 2002 Athens, Greece About our sponsors The Fetal Medicine Foundation We would like to acknowledge Karl Storz Endoscopy and Astraia Gmbh, who have helped us reduce the financial The World Congress is organized by the Fetal Medicine Foundation, which is directed by Prof K Nicolaides burden of this meeting. Please be sure to visit their displays and talk to their representatives during the morning (below). The Fetal Medicine Foundation is a Registered Charity that aims to improve the health of pregnant and afternoon breaks – they are set up in the Foyer at the Antigoni Hall of the Terra building. women and their babies through research and training in fetal medicine. The Foundation, with the support of an international group of experts, has introduced an educational programme both for healthcare professionals and parents and a series of certificates of competence in different aspects of fetal medicine. In the last 18 years, The Foundation has supported research and training in the following areas through grants to a total of more than £15 million: Early diagnosis of fetal abnormalities Screening for chromosomal defects Development of safer techniques for prenatal diagnosis Intrauterine fetal surgery Prediction and prevention of stillbirth Prediction and prevention of pre‐term birth Preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction Problems of multiple pregnancies International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,7 International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Annual Meeting Hersonissos Information for participants,8 Practicalities for the meeting Dress Code Registration Desk and Badges Please remember that the dress code at IFMSS is that there is no dress code. This also applies for the World Foyer of the Antigoni Hall (Terra Building) where the IFMSS meeting is taking place. A map of the resort can be Congress. If you feel better when presenting with a tie, that is also allowed. The weather will however be found a few pages further in this booklet. unforgiving. There is one exception: on Sunday and Monday morning, we will be available at the registration desk of the World Coffee breaks and Sponsor Exhibits. Congress, with a separate desk and line. They will also be in the Foyer, next to the Antigoni Hall. This is also where the sponsors’ exhibits will be displayed. Doors to the outside will be opened. All registrants will receive a badge which must be visible at all times. People without badges will not be allowed During the joint sessions with the World Congress on Sunday and Monday till noon, also coffee breaks will be at access to the scientific sessions, coffee and lunch breaks, or social program.

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