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Reproductive Health 2008

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Preliminary Agenda

Wednesday, September 17

9:00 - 12:00

Optional Media Training conducted by ARHP and PPFA

1:00 - 5:00

Concurrent Pre-Conference Sessions

  • Heard, Informed, Connected, and Empowered: Your Role in Promoting Post-Abortion Well-Being
    Aspen Baker, Nikki Madsen, Melissa Werner, MPH, MAT
    Moderator: Mark Hathaway, MD, MPH
  • The Story Behind the Health History: Incorporating Reproductive Environmental Health Tools Into Practice
    Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH
    Moderator: Rivka Gordon, PA-C, MHS
  • Understanding the Scientific Literature
    Lawrence Finer, PhD, David Grimes, MD, Ken Schulz, PhD, MBA
    Moderator: Beth Jordan, MD
  • Long-Acting Reversible Contraception
    Barbara Clark, PA-C, MPAS, Lee Shulman, MD
    Moderator: Pablo Rodriguez, MD
  • Being a Powerful Advocate for Your Hot Button Policy Issues
    Jackie Payne, JD, Carlie Steen, JD, Robin Summers, JD
    Moderator: Jennifer Aulwes
2:30 - 5:30 Junior Faculty Career Development and Research Panel (sponsored by SFP)
Career Development (2:30 - 4:00)
Eve Espey, MD, MPH, Angel Foster, DPhil, MD, AM, Emily Godfrey, MD, MPH, Tina Raine-Bennett, MD, MPH, Nikki Zite, MD, MPH

Moderator: Carolyn Westhoff, MD
Research Panel (4:15 - 5:30)
Steven C. Kaufman, MD, MS
Moderator: Mitchell Creinin, MD

5:00 - 7:30

ARHP Board Meeting and Dinner

7:30 - 8:30

Welcome Reception

Thursday, September 18

Exhibits all day in Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Foyer

7:00 - 7:45

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

7:00 - 8:00 Clinical Correspondent’s Breakfast

7:45 - 8:00

Welcome Remarks
Mitchell Creinin, MD, Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA, Susan Higginbotham, MEd, Wayne C. Shields

Plenary Session I
Moderator: Pablo Rodriguez, MD

8:00 - 9:00

Cushner Lectureship
Reproductive Health: Essential, Possible, Urgent
Richard Horton, FRCP, FMedSci

9:00 - 9:45

Oral Abstracts

  • Women's Motivation to Participate in Contraceptive Efficacy Trials
  • A Comparison of Continuation Rates for Three Short-term Hormonal Contraceptive Methods Among Women Seeking First-Trimester Abortion
  • Comparison of Contraceptive Method Chosen by Women With and Without Recent Elective Abortion

9:45 - 10:30

Break

Plenary Session I (cont)
Moderator: Patricia A. Lohr, MD, MPH
10:30 - 11:00 WHO’s Four Cornerstones of Family Planning Guidance
Paul Van Look, MD, PhD, FRCOG

11:00 - 11:30

Contraception's Top 10: Translating the Most Frequently Downloaded Articles into Clinical Practice
Faculty: Daniel R. Mishell, Jr., MD

11:30 - 12:30

Oral Abstracts

  • Outcomes of Medical Abortion Through 63 Days in Women with Twin Gestations
  • Cervical Ripening with Buccal Misoprostol Before First Trimester Pregnancy Termination in Low Resource Settings
  • A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Oral Sedation with Intravenous Sedation for First-Trimester Surgical Abortion
  • Second-trimester Surgical Abortion Practices: A Survey of National Abortion Federation Members

12:30 - 2:00

Concurrent Lunch and Learn Sessions

  • Cosmetics, Breast Cancer, and the Environment
    Lisa Archer
  • Curriculum Expansion: Injecting Sexual and Reproductive Health Content in Primary Care Professions Training
    Mayra Ferreira, Angel Foster, DPhil, MD, AM
  • Assisted Reproductive Technologies Values Clarification
    Jessica Arons, JD, Emily Galpern, MPH
  • Immigrant Women, Reproductive Justice and Immigration Reform in 2009: Improving the Economic and Reproductive Health of Immigrant Women through Immigration Reform Advocacy
    Veronica Bayetti Flores, Priscilla Huang, JD, Jenny Jourdain, Olga Vives
  • Male Contraception
    Faculty: H. Trent MacKay, MD, MPH
  • Microbicides: The Good, the Bad, and the Necessary
    Liza Solomon, DrPH
  • Pharmacists as Part of the Health Care Team
    Sharon Cohen Landau, MPH, Don Downing, RPh
  • Idea Exchange: Working with the Cochrane Prospective Meta-analysis Program
    Katie Morgan, MS, NP, Patricia Murphy, DrPH, CNM, David Turok, MD, MPH

12:30 - 2:00

SFP Board Meeting

12:30 - 2:00

Wyeth New Leaders lunch

Plenary Session II
Moderator: Mitchell Creinin, MD

2:00 - 3:00

A Clinical Update on the HPV Vaccination, Screening in Adolescents, Genital Warts, and the New Toolkit
Francisco Garcia, MD, MPH, Jeff Waldman, MD, Sandy Worthington, MSN, WHNP-BC, CNM

3:00 - 3:45

Oral Abstracts

  • IUD Insertion After Medical Abortion
  • IUD Use in Adolescent Mothers: Pregnancy Rates, Retention Rates, and Reasons for Discontinuation
  • Do Side Effects from the Copper IUD Truly Dissipate Over Time?

3:45 - 4:00

Preserving Core Values in Science Award
Justin Diedrich, MD, Gail Sorrough, MLIS, Gloria Won, MLIS

4:10 - 5:00

ARHP Membership Meeting

5:00 - 6:00

SFP Business Meeting

6:00 - 7:00

SFP Reception (SFP Fellows and Junior Fellows only)

6:00 - 7:00

National Patient Service Council Reception (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

7:00 - 9:30

SFP Dinner (SFP Fellows and Junior Fellows only)

Friday, September 19

Exhibits set up all day in Thurgood Marshall Ballroom Foyer

7:00 - 8:00

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors

Plenary Session III
Moderators: Steve Lichtenberg, MD, MPH

8:00 - 9:00

Guttmacher Lectureship
Strategies for Reducing High Unintended Pregnancy and Repeat Abortion Rates in the U.S.
Stanley K. Henshaw, PhD

9:00 - 10:00

Oral Abstracts

  • Intimate Partner Violence and Unwanted Pregnancies among Young Women: Reproductive Health Pathways
  • Current Issues Affecting Chlamydia Screening Among Girls and Women: Findings from CDC Exploratory Research and Implications for Health Care Practice
  • HIV/STD Reproductive Health Education in the District of Columbia: An Evaluation of the Making Proud Choices! Program
  • Sex Education and Contraceptive Use at Coital Debut in the U.S.: Results from Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 11:30

A Vignette-Based Approach to Addressing Hormonal Contraception
David Grimes, MD

11:30 - 12:30

Motivating Healthy Behaviors: Practical Tools from Prescription for Health
Maribel Cifuentes, RN, BSN

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch with Exhibitors

12:30 - 2:00

Corporate Advisory Board lunch

12:30 - 2:00

Junior Faculty Lunch & Learn: Balancing Career and Family (sponsored by SFP)
Marji Gold, MD, Eve Espey, MD, MPH, Mark Nichols, MD

2:00 - 2:50

Concurrent Breakout Session I

  • Practical Ways to Elicit an Honest, Inclusive History Related to Difficult Subjects
    Barbara Malat, CNP, PA-C
    Moderator: Barbara Clark, PA-C, MPAS
  • Breaking the Contraceptive Barrier: Techniques for Effective Contraceptive Consultations
    Linda Dominguez, RN-C, NP
    Moderator: Sarah H. Lindahl, MS, PA-C
  • Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Postmenopausal Woman
    A presentation by the International Menopause Society and the North American Menopause Society
    Amos Pines, BSc, MD, Cynthia Stuenkel, MD
    Moderator: Pablo Rodriguez, MD

2:00 - 4:00

PPFA Clinical Issues Discussions (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

2:50 - 3:10

Break

3:10 - 4:00

Concurrent Breakout Session II

  • Before, Between, and Beyond: Preconception and Interconception Care
    Merry-K. Moos, RN, FNP, MPH, FAAN
    Moderator: Justine Wu, MD, MPH
  • Late Breaking Reproductive Health Updates
    James Trussell, BPhil, PhD, Lawrence Finer, PhD
    Moderator: Michelle Fox, MD, MPH, FACOG
  • Low Teen Pregnancy Rates: The Result of Sexuality Education and Health Services
    A presentation by the European Society of Contraception
    Dan Apter, MD, PhD
    Moderator: Pablo Rodriguez, MD

4:00 - 5:30

Poster and Awards Reception and Book Signing

5:00 - 7:00

Medical Directors Council (MeDC) meeting (Planned Parenthood medical directors only)

7:30

MeDC Dinner (off site; meet in lobby at 7:30) (Planned Parenthood medical directors only)

Saturday, September 20

7:00 - 8:00

Continental Breakfast

Plenary Session IV
Moderator: Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA

8:00 - 9:00

Burnhill Lectureship
Contaminated Without Consent:  How Chemical Pollutants Threaten Women's Reproductive Health and What We Can Do About It
Sandra Steingraber, PhD

9:00 - 10:00

Contraception for Obese Women
James Trussell, BPhil, PhD

9:30 – 10:00

Planned Parenthood Update: Medical Abortion and Serious Infection
Mary Fjerstad, NP, MHS

10:00 - 10:30

Break

10:30 - 12:30

Concurrent Breakout Session III

  • CDC Guidelines on Screening for HIV/ STIs
    Faculty: Madeline Sutton, MD, MPH
    Moderator: Linda Dominguez, RN-C, NP
  • Better Examples of Patient Education Materials
    Lorraine Wallace, PhD
    Moderator: Michael Thomas, MD
  • Emerging Issues in Abortion Care
    Louise Melling, Kirsten Moore, Kate O'Connell, MD, MPH, Lynne Randall, Tracy Weitz, PhD, MPA, Susan Yanow, MSW
    Moderator: Beth Jordan, MD

10:30 - 1:00

PPFA/NMC Subcommittee Meetings (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

12:30

ARHP/SFP meeting concludes

1:00 - 2:15

PPFA Lunch and Sylvia Clark Award Presentation (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

2:15 - 4:00

PPFA/NMC Subcommittee Meetings (continued)

4:00 - 5:30

New Medical Directors' Orientation (Planned Parenthood medical directors only)

4:00 - 5:30 Planned Parenthood Clinician's Meeting

6:00 - 7:30

PPFA National Medical Conference Reception (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

Sunday, September 21 (PPFA NMC sessions only)

7:00

Continental breakfast

7:30

Presentations (Planned Parenthood staff/volunteers only)

9:00

NMC subcommittee reports and final discussions

11:00

PPFA National Medical Conference concludes