ORGANIZER:

Asher Ornoy, The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Asher Ornoy, Svetlana Shechtman & Mati Berkovich

 

This will be the first meeting of members from two organizations; the European (European Network of Teratogen Information Services – ENTIS) and the North American (Organization of Teratogen Information Specialists – OTIS). These organizations offer teratological counselling to pregnant women and medical professions, and to the risk of harm to the developing embryo and foetus following maternal exposure to possible teratogenic agents, i.e. drugs, chemicals, high doses of irradiation or maternal diseases during pregnancy.

There will be four scientific symposia, free communications and three business meetings of ENTIS and OTIS council members to discuss scientific collaboration and future meetings. The symposia are as follows:

• The Role of Genetics and Epigenetics in Clinical Teratology
• The Placenta in Clinical Teratology: Mechanisms of Drugs Transfer; the Effects of Placental Insufficiency on the Foetus
• Challenges in Clinical Teratology
• Pyschotropic Drugs and Foetal Brain: Possible Teratogenicity and Behavioural Changes

 

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SPEAKERS:

Mati Berkovitch, Israel
Robert L. Brent, USA
Christina Chambers, USA
Maurizio Clementi, Italy
Orna Diav-Citrin, Israel
Jan Friedman, Canada
Corinna Weber-Schoendorfer, Germany
Barbara Hales, Canada
Gershon Holcberg, Israel
Kenneth L. Jones, USA
Gil Klinger, Israel
Gideon Koren, Canada
Steve Lamm, USA
Heli Malm, Finland
Richard K. Miller, USA
Irena Nulman, Canada
Asher Ornoy, Israel
Aharon Razin, Israel
Martha Rozin, Israel
Christof Schaefer, Germany
Avraham Steinberg, Israel
Moshe Szyf, Canada
Thierry Vial, France
Rami Yaka, Israel