WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL COMMITTEES President Presidents A. Kurjak, Croatia Giulio Bevilacqua (Parma) Ermelando V. Cosmi (Roma) Past President F. Battaglia, USA Executive President Domenico Arduini (Roma, Italy) President Elect M.R.G. Carrapato, Portugal Scientific Committee President Gian Carlo Di Renzo (Perugia, Italy) Vice Presidents E.V. Cosmi, Italy General Secretary Y. Murata, Japan Guido Moro (Milano, Italy) J.G. Schenker, Israel Treasurer Secretary General Arturo Giustardi (Napoli, Italy) J.M. Carrera, Spain Treasurer International Scientific Committee K. Vetter, Germany Sun Bo (China) General informations Louis Cabero Roura (Spain) Deputy Secretaries Waldemar Carlo (USA) F.A. Chervenak, USA Gustaf Dekker (Australia) E.M. De Albuquerque Diniz, Brazil Roberto Romero (USA) A.M. Adra, Lebanon Umberto Simeoni (France) Ricardo Uauy (Chile) Contents Editor-In-Chief of The Journal Yves Ville (France) J.W. Dudenhausen, Germany General information Page 3 Symposia Page 7 Pre Congress postgraduate courses Page 18 Preliminary scientific program Page 19 2 3 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine PRELIMINARY LIST OF CHAIRPERSONS AND SPEAKERS Italian Scientific Committee Italian Organizing Committee R. Abdel-Maguid (Egypt) M. D’Alton (USA) E. Jauniaux (UK) Antonio Ambrosiani (Padova) Marcello Assumma (Roma) A. Abdelwahed (Jordan) P. Deboisse (France) B. Koletzko (Germany) Rodolfo Bracci (Siena) Ignazio Barberi (Messina) E. Acatcherian (Lebanon) G. Dekker (Australia) A. Kurjak (Croatia) Chiara Benedetto (Torino) M. Antonietta Bianco (Roma) Z. Alfirevic (UK) M. Delivoria Papadopoulos (USA) J.D. Iams (USA) Giuseppe Buonocore (Siena) Luigi Cataldi (Roma) L. Allen (UK) A. Di Lieto (Italy) M. Lafrenz (Germany) Virgilio Carnielli (Ancona) Giovanni Corsello (Palermo) J.G. Alonso (Uruguay) D. Dodero (Italy) R. Lamont (UK) Manuel Castello (Roma) Vassilios Fanos (Cagliari) I. Amer Wahlin (Sweden) J. Deprest (Belgium) O. Langer (USA) A. Di Lieto (Napoli) Luigi Fedele (Milano) A. Antsaklis (Greece) G. Dildy (USA) G.B. La Sala (Italy) D. Arduini (Italy) E.M. Diniz (Brasile) M. Levene (UK) Enrico Ferrazzi (Milano) Mario Ferraro (Roma) J.V. Aranda (USA) G.C. Di Renzo (Italy) C. B-Linch (USA) Fabio Facchinetti (Modena) Tiziana Frusca (Brescia) A. Athanassiadis (Greece) J. Donnez (Belgium) A Lucas (UK) Claudio Fabbris (Torino) Romolo Di Iorio (Roma) E. Baracat (Brasil) I. Durand-Zaleski (France) J. Lucey (USA) Secondo Guaschino (Trieste) Gian Paolo Donzelli (Firenze) D.J. Barker (UK) Y. Englert (Belgium) R. Luzietti (Italy) Massimo Moscarini (Roma) Giuseppe Ettore (Catania) P.N. Barri (Spain) M. Evans (USA) G. Macones (USA) Giorgio Pardi (Milano) Diego Gazzolo (Catania) T.F. Baskett (Canada) F. Facchinetti (Italy) J.C. Martinez (Argentina) Felice Petraglia (Siena) Pantaleo Greco (Foggia) F. Battaglia (USA) V. Fanos (Italy) A. Matias (Portugal) Enrica Riva (Milano) Cinzia Magnani (Parma) B. Benacerraf (USA) E. Ferrazzi ( Italy) D. Maulik (USA) Giorgio Rondini (Pavia) Mauro Marchionni (Firenze) Z. Ben Rafael (Israel) J. Fouron (Canada) J.A. Mc Gregor (USA) Paolo Salvioli (Bologna) Annamaria Marconi (Milano) G. Bevilacqua (Italy) F. Froen (Norway) G. Meschia (USA) V. Bhutani (USA) C. Fuchner (Bolivia) A. Michailov (Russia) Giuseppe Saggese (Pisa) Pasquale Martinelli (Napoli) D. Bianchi (USA) E.C. Gadow (Argentina) H. L. Minkoff (USA) Luigi Selvaggi (Bari) Fabio Mosca (Milano) I. Blickstein (Israel) J. Gadzinowski (Poland) M.D. Mitchell (New Zealand) Tullia Todros (Torino) Stefano Martinelli (Milano) S. Bo (China) J. Gardosi (UK) G. Moro (Italy) Franco Zacchello (Padova) Gianni Monni (Cagliari) G. Breborowicz (Poland) T.J. Garite (USA) U. Nicolini (Italy) Nicola Rizzo (Bologna) M.P. Brincat (Malta) D. Glinoer (Belgium) J. Nijhuis (NL) G. Rizzo (Roma) P. Brocklehurst (UK) P. Gluckman (New Zealand) F. Mosca (Milano) Firmino Rubaltelli (Firenze) J.P. Bruner (USA) R.L. Goldenberg (USA) K. Nicolaides (UK) Michele Stegagno (Roma) G. Buonocore (Italy) R. Gomez (Chile) H. Nishida (Japan) Gianfranco Scarselli (Firenze) L. Cabero Roura (Spain) E. Gratacos (Spain) C. O’Herlihy (Ireland) Andrea L. Tranquilli (Ancona) G. Campos Perez (Chile) M. Greene (USA) E.Oliva (USA) C. Campoy (Spain) A. Greenough (UK) M. Orzalesi (Italy) Carlo Zorzi (Padova) V. Cararach (Spain) G. Griesen (Denmark) M. Palermo (Argentina) V. Carnielli (Italy) S. Guaschino (Italy) S. Parmigiani (Italy) M.R.G. Carrapato (Portugal) J. Haddad (Lebanon) S. Paterson Smith (UK) J.M. Carrera (Spain) H. Hagberg (Denmark) J.F. Peipert (USA) F. Castelli (Italy) H. Halliday (Ireland) F. Petraglia (Italy) C. Cavalli (Italy) M. Hallman (Finland) M. Pettigrew (Switzerland) R. Chaoui (Germany) E. Hamilton (Canada) G.L. Pilu (Italy) G. Clerici (Italy) M.E. Hannah (Canada) R. Quintero (USA) P. Chedraui (Ecuador) D. Haumont (Belgium) N. Radunovic (Serbia- Montenegro) F. Chervenak (USA) K. Hecher (Germany) R. Ramanathan (USA) S. Chiovato (Italy) M. Hod (Israel) J. Rigo (Belgium) O. Coll (Spain) W. Holzgreve (Switzerland) D. Roberts (USA) F. Comhaire (Belgium) T. Hung Bui (UK) M. Robson (Ireland) R.W.I. Cooke (UK) C. Hunt (USA) S. Robson (UK) E.V. Cosmi (Italy) P. Huppi (Switzerland) R. Romero (USA) K. Costeloe (UK) P. Husslein (Austria) G.R. Saade (USA) J.C. Cuadro (Uruguay) S. Jacobs (Australia) J.M. Salinas (Mexico) B. Dallapiccola (Italy) F. Jacquemard (France) E. Saling (Germany) 4 5 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine O.D. Saugstad (Norway) S Schùrch (Switzerland) G. Serra (Italy) G. Serour (Egypt) B. Sibai (USA) U. Simeoni (France) C. Speer (Germany) P. Spinola (Brazil) M. Stark (Germany) P. Steer (UK) B. Stray-Pedersen (Norway) M. Szymankiewicz (Poland) B. Tarlatzis (Greece) R. Tan (China) Symposia J. Theuren (Albania) T. Todros (Italy) J.G. Thornton (UK) as been announced J. Trojano (Spain) R. Uauy (Chile) to be organised by: V. Unzeitig (Check Rep) L.J. Van Marter (USA) 1. CHINESE MEDICAL SOCIETY Y. Ville (France) G. Visser (Netherlands) EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS L.S. Voto (Argentina) 2. C. Waldemar (USA) H. Waltì (Canada) 3. EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH G. Wiknjosastro (Indonesia) C. Yabes Almirante (Philippines) 4. INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PERINATAL MEDICINE S. Zhao (China) E.E. Ziegler (USA) 5. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MATERNAL AND NEONATAL HEALTH (IAMANEH) 6. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC LABORATORY MEDICINE 7. INTL ASS THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING & CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY 8. MEDITERRANEAN SOCIETY OF ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY (MED-UOG) 9. SOCIEDAD IBERO-AMERICANA DE DIAGNOSTICO PRENATAL 6 7 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine The “8th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine” will be held in Florence from 9th to 13th September 2007. The Congress will be held at PALAZZO DEI CONGRESSI Piazza Adua 1, 50123 Florence Italy The “Palazzo dei Congressi” is located in the city centre, walking distance from the major historical sites and 15 minutes drive from the airport. Congress Venue FlorenceItaly 8 9 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Florence (Italy), 9-13 September 2007 WCPM World Congress of Perinatal Medicine Why Florence? Food - One of the most beautiful cities in the world, an open sky museum famous worldwide. Typical, regional or Italian food is served everywhere in Florence. - Everything at hand, small, clean and safe with a unique art and historical heritage. Tuscan cuisine is not too rich, and its true character is given by high-quality ingredients, whose - No restriction from any country to reach Italy, politics and economy steady, flavor is enhanced by simple but tasty recipes. Grilled meat from Chianti, fish from the Tyrrhenian State member of the European Community. Sea, vegetables, cheese and salamis from the countryside are the basis of the traditional - Beautiful Mediterranean climate, good and healthy food, great shopping. Florentine meals. - Very easy to reach, in the middle of Italy. You can find excellent pizzerias, bars and coffee shops offering tasty sandwiches as well as first and second courses. The Town Chianti wine is excellent and wine shops offer to connoisseurs exciting products whose quality Among many art towns in Italy, Florence is proud of its rather unique feature: its many palaces, is constantly improved. monuments and masterpieces fit in such a narrow area thata everything is really walking Definitely, we must recommend the pleasures of outdoors dining offered by most restaurant, distance. Mornings in Florence, that ravished Ruskinn so much, reveal an unexpected bouty quite often within the extraordinary scenery of beautiful squares, palaces or monuments. of beauty and charm at every corner. Shopping The town is divided into two parts by the Arno River, flowing from the nearby high chain of the Florence is a favourite display place for many famous fashion brands and all the most celebrated Casentino Mountains towards the coast, and yielding in to the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa. international fashion designers have set up their shops in Via Tornabuoni, Via della Vigna Nuova Congress Venue or Via Calzaioli. No matter how overpowering Florence’s historical past and open-air museums may be, its You can find Roberto Cavalli, Emilio Pucci, Prada, Enrico Coveri, Gucci, as