Program:
The Medical Conference and Awareness Day will both be held at the Lenox Hill Hospital Einhorn Auditorium
131 E 76th Street New York, NY 10021 -- 76th Street between Lex & Park NYC
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015 - Lenox Hill
Endometriosis Awareness Day: A day for women with endometriosis, their loved ones, nurses, and educators
Updates on coping, research progress, and the opportunity to speak with the experts.
CHAIRS: Lone Hummelshoj | Heather Guidone | Deborah Bush | Theresa Davidson
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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| 09:00am – 09:30am | Registration and refreshments | |
| 09:30am – 09.35am | Welcome | Tamer Seckin |
| 09:35am – 11:00am | Sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am over it, what can I do? An interactive session to:
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Deborah Bush |
| 11:00am – 11:15am | Break | |
| 11:15am – 11:45pm | Is anyone doing anything about endometriosis? An update on global research into the disease |
Stacey Missmer |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Back to the roots? Botanicals as natural therapeutics for endometriosis |
Robert Taylor |
| 12:15pm – 1:00pm | The ENPOWR Project | Jennifer Hancher |
| The ENPOWR Award | Padma Lakshmi, Tamer Seckin, Theresa Davidson, Young Women's Leadership Network, Senator Jeffrey Klein | |
| 1:00pm - 1:45pm | LUNCH | |
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1:45pm – 2:45pm |
BREAK-OUT SESSIONS | |
| Support strategies for young women with endometriosis | Deborah Bush Stacey Missmer | |
| Endometriosis, peri-menopause, and beyond | Sarah Berga | |
| Endometriosis and infertility | Enda McVeigh Casey Berna | |
| Relationships, sex, and endometriosis | Heather Guidone Lone Hummelshoj | |
| 2:50pm- 3:50pm |
Ask the endometriosis specialists Your opportunity to ask those burning questions and to get real-life answers from a global panel of experts in endometriosis |
Harry Reich, Tamer Seckin, Robert Taylor, Sarah Berga, Juan Salgado, Andrew Cook, Ken Sinervo, Enda McVeigh, Stacey Missmer |
| 3:45pm – 4:00pm | Take home messages and close | Lone Hummelshoj |
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2015 - Lenox Hill
Clinical, surgical, and scientific aspects of endometriosis
Scientific program chairs: Harry Reich | Lone Hummelshoj | Tamer Seckin
Over one and half days in New York City, the Endometriosis Foundation of America is proud to present an international faculty that will address leading-edge clinical, surgical, and scientific conundrums in endometriosis:
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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| 07:30am - 08:30am | Registration and continental breakfast | -- |
| 08:30am - 09:00am | Welcome Background and successes of Endofound |
Dennis Connors, MBA Tamer Seckin, MD |
| ENDOMETRIOSIS - HOW MUCH DO WE UNDERSTAND? CHAIRS: Robert Taylor | Lone Hummelshoj |
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| 09:00am - 09:15am | The black hole: what we don’t see in endometriosis | Tamer Seckin, MD |
| 09:15am - 10:00am | KEYNOTE Mullerianosis: embryonic endometriosis, adenomyosis, endosalpingiosis, and endocervicosis |
Ronald Batt, MD, PhD |
| 10:00am - 10:15am | DISCUSSION | -- |
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break and poster viewing | -- |
| 10:35am - 11:20am | KEYNOTE The tale of the weeping ovary |
Stephan Gordts, MD, PhD |
| 11:20am - 11:30am | DISCUSSION | -- |
| ORAL PRESENTATIONS CHAIRS: Stacey Missmer | Hayama Brill |
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| 11:30am - 11:45am | Visual diagnosis of endometriosis using fluorescence Imaging + ICG Dye (Firefly) | Aileen Caceres, MD |
| 11:45am - 12.00pm | What happened to pelvic MRI to detect DIE pre-op? A comparison between the expert versus the general radiologist | Kathy Huang, MD |
| 12:00pm - 12:15pm | New data on peritoneal resection and fertility | Grace Janik, MD |
| 12:15pm - 12:30pm | ENPOWR Project update | Theresa Davidson, MEd, MPH |
| STAKEHOLDERS IN ENDOMETRIOSIS CHAIR: Karlene ChinQuee |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | LUNCH The patients’ role in medical decision making |
Deborah Bush |
| SHOWCASING EXCISION SURGERY (video presentations; ten minutes each + five minutes for discussion) CHAIRS: Harry Reich | Elizabeth Kavaler |
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| 1:30pm - 1:45 pm | Ureter | CY Liu, MD |
| 1:45pm - 2.00pm | Bladder | Andrew Cook, MD |
| 2:00pm - 2:15pm | Endometrioma | Adel Shervin, MD |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Bowel | Ken Sinervo, MD |
| 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Clinical diagnosis of endometriosis in adolescents using the robot | John Dulemba, MD |
| 2:45pm - 3:00pm | Past, present, and future of robotic surgery for endometriosis and hysterectomy | Vladimir Nikifarouk, MD |
| 3:00pm - 3:15pm | DISCUSSION | -- |
| 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Break and poster viewing | -- |
| SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND LIMITATIONS CHAIRS: CY Liu | Sarah Berga |
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| 3:30pm - 3:50pm | Have robotics replaced traditional laparoscopy in the surgical treatment of endometriosis? | Michael Nimaroff, MD |
| 3:50pm - 4:05pm | The sins of the fathers are visited on the sons: should hysterectomies be pre-certed other than vaginal? | Ray Wertheim, MD |
| 4:05pm - 4:20pm | Moving from “it is all in your head” to early surgical intervention | Melanie Marin, MD |
| 4:20pm - 4:35pm | Should endometriosis surgery have its own credentialing? | Harry Reich, MD |
| 4:35pm - 4:45pm | Close and take home messages | Harry Reich, MD |
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 Lenox Hill
Clinical, surgical, and scientific aspects of endometriosis
Scientific program chairs: Harry Reich | Lone Hummelshoj | Tamer Seckin
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
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| 07:30am - 08:30am | Registration and continental breakfast | -- |
| IN THE BEGINNING CHAIRS: Stacey Rosen | Adam Romoff |
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| 08:30am - 08:35am | Welcome | Stacey Rosen, MD |
| 08:35am - 08:55am | Pain mechanisms in endometriosis: understanding the neurobiology of chronic pain to enhance patient care | Sawsan (Suzie) As-Sanie, MD |
| 08:55am - 09:40am | KEYNOTE In the beginning: identification and treatment of nascent endometriosis |
Robert Taylor, MD, PhD |
| 09:40am - 10:05am | The key window for diagnosing endometriosis to commence early intervention | Stacey Missmer, MD |
| 10:05am - 10:20am | Break | -- |
| FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN BASIC RESEARCH CHAIRS: Christine Metz | Milton Haynes |
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| 10:20am - 10:40am | The ROSE Study: Investigative tools for the study of endometriosis | Peter Gregersen, MD |
| 10:40am - 11:00am | Primate Models for Endometriosis Research - do miRNAs play a role? | Asgi Fazleabas, PhD |
| 11:00am - 11:20am | Towards mechanism-based molecular classification of women with endometriosis | Linda Griffith, PhD |
| 11:20am - 11:35am | Break | |
| CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS CHAIRS: Tomer Singer | Irving Buterman |
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| 11:35am - 11:55am | Diagnosis and treatment: surgery vs. no surgery? | Juan Salgado, MD |
| 11:55am - 12:15pm | Cost effective IVF for endometriosis | Enda McVeigh, MD |
| 12:15pm - 12:35pm | From adolescence through menopause | Sarah Berga, MD |
| 12:35pm - 12:50pm | Take home messages and close | Tamer Seckin, MD |
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