We are developing a stimulating scientific program for Friday and Saturday mornings. On Saturday, the program will be held in the original teaching amphitheater of Vanderbilt Medical School (albeit updated and modernized).
We will start with a discussion of the challenges in building and academic OBGYN program in today’s environment and the illustrious and innovative history of Vanderbilt Medical School. We will learn about treating reproductive dysfunction caused by endocrine disruptors in the offspring of exposed animals and about assessing environmental health risks using models from stromal-epithelial cell co-cultures to the state-of-the-art “organ on a chip.” We will delve into “multi-omic” studies of fibroids using large health record databanks and placental clues to the origin of adult health and disease. We will examine the development of Vanderbilt’s novel Firefly program for treating opiate use disorder during pregnancy and into the postpartum interval and look into the future with a demonstration of a robotics platform for hysteroscopic and cystoscopic surgery.
To end the scientific sessions, we’ll take a group picture at the historic entrance to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the first purpose-built, three-in-one academic medical center in the USA that put classrooms, research labs, and hospital rooms under one continuous roof.
