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ASRM 2008 Annual Meeting 
Preliminary Program

Plenary Sessions
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Plenary Session 1

8:00 - 8:45 am
President’s Guest Speaker/EMD Serono, Inc., Endowed Lecture
“Stem Cell Research: Where Do We Stand Today?”
Alan O. Trounson, Ph.D., President, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, San Francisco, CA

8:45 - 9:30 am
Herbert H. Thomas Ortho Women’s Health Endowed Lecture
“Obesity and the New Politics of Health Policy”
Rogan Kersh, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Professor of Public Service, NYU Wagner School, New York, NY

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Plenary Session 2

1:45 - 2:30 pm
Society for Male Reproduction and Urology and the Bruce Stewart Memorial Lecture
“Androgens in Men and Women: A State of the Art Overview”
Rebecca Z. Sokol, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Plenary Session 3

8:00 - 8:45 am
Astra-Zeneca Endowed Lecture
“Lions, Tigers and Pandas, Oh My! The Importance of Genetic Management and ART in Species Preservation”
David E. Wildt, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and Head, Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA

8:45 - 9:30 am
Serono, Inc., Endowed Lecture
“Revisiting The Role of the Thyroid in Reproduction”
Margaret E. Wierman, M.D., Chief of Endocrinology, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Professor in Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center, Denver, CO

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Plenary Session 4

1:45 - 2:30 pm
The Society of Reproductive Surgeons Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Endowed Lecture
“Office-based Hysteroscopy”
Stefano Bettocchi, M.D., Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Plenary Session 5

8:00 - 8:45 a.m.
William C. Andrews Wyeth Endowed Lecture
“Irresistible Drives and Immovable Demand: Adolescence in the 21st Century”
Malcolm Potts, M.D., Ph.D., Professor in Population and Family Planning, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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Plenary Session 6

1:45 - 2:30 p.m.
Society for the Study of Reproduction Exchange Speaker
“Heart-Healthy Pork, Pig Organs for Humans, and Green Eggs and Ham: How Genetically Modified Pigs Can Benefit You”
Randall S. Prather, Ph.D., Curators’ Professor and Co-Director, Division of Animal Science, National Swine Resource and Research Center, University of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, MO

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