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Education and Training SMFM 2025 Pregnancy Meeting

Welcome SMFM 2025 Attendees

January 27 – February 1
Denver, Colorado

Texas Children’s Fetal Center® provides the full spectrum of advanced fetal diagnostics, therapies and surgery for women with complicated pregnancies and their babies. Families come to us for personalized, multidisciplinary care, including the latest treatment for fetal heart conditions, gastroschisis, CDH, NTD, LUTO and TTTS — performed at our Pavilion for Women, adjacent to a 76-bed level IV NICU at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, and our new Fetal Center at Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin. Visit us at booth 801.

Role First Name Last Name Organization Session Date Session Type Presentation Title Presentation Start Time Presentation End Time
Presenter April Adams Baylor College of Medicine Clinically Relevant Prenatal Genetics Updates for the Practicing Maternal Fetal Medicine Provider 1/27/2025 Postgraduate Courses Pearls vs Pitfalls of cfDNA for Common Aneuploidies and Genome-wide Prenatal Screening 1:45 PM 2:15 PM
Presenter Mona Makhamreh Baylor College of Medicine Clinically Relevant Prenatal Genetics Updates for the Practicing Maternal Fetal Medicine Provider 1/27/2025 Postgraduate Courses Pearls vs Pitfalls: Case Presentations by MFM Fellows 2:15 PM 2:45 PM
Presenter Ignatia Van den Veyver Baylor College of Medicine Maternal Fetal Precision Medicine: From Early Diagnosis to Targeted Fetal Therapy 1/29/2025 Postgraduate Courses Fetal Phenotyping and Incidental Findings 8:40 AM 9:00 AM
Forum Speaker April Adams Baylor College of Medicine Genetics 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Roadmap to Delivering Equitable Care in Reproductive and Prenatal Genetics: Clinical initiatives to support equitable reproductive health, strategies for community engagement and empathy and equity-based genetics training 3:30 PM 4:10 PM
Forum Chair Amir Shamshirsaz Texas Children's Hospital Placenta Accreta Spectrum 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Placenta Accreta Spectrum 3:00 PM 5:00 PM
Forum Speaker Amir Shamshirsaz Texas Children's Hospital Placenta Accreta Spectrum 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Welcome and Introductions 3:00 PM 3:05 PM
Forum Speaker Jessian Munoz Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Placenta Accreta Spectrum 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Challenging Case Discussions: During this segment chairs will present two challenging and unique case presentation to start an open discussion about diagnosis and management between the audience, speakers, and chairs. 4:25 PM 4:55 PM
Forum Speaker Amir Shamshirsaz Texas Children's Hospital Placenta Accreta Spectrum 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Wrap-up and Evaluations 4:55 PM 5:00 PM
Forum Speaker Magdalena Sanz Cortes Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Ultrasound 1/29/2025 Scientific Forums Screening, diagnosis, staging and management of TTTS 4:15 PM 4:35 PM
Submitting Author and Presenting Author Enrico Barrozo Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital Oral Plenary Session 1 1/30/2025 Oral Plenary Sessions Metformin paradoxically increases insulin resistance during pregnancy in a Rhesus macaque model 9:30 AM 9:45 AM
Submitting Author and Presenting Author Enrico Barrozo Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital Oral Concurrent Session 1 - Equity, Public Health, and Policy 1/30/2025 Oral Concurrent Sessions Elevated micro- and nanoplastics detected in preterm human placentae 3:30 PM 3:45 PM
Moderator Manisha Gandhi Baylor College of Medicine Oral Concurrent Session 2 - Clinical Obstetrics and Quality 1/30/2025 Oral Concurrent Sessions Oral Concurrent Session 2 - Clinical Obstetrics and Quality 1:30 PM 4:00 PM
Submitting Author and Presenting Author Michael Belfort Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Oral Concurrent Session 8 - Fetus and Fetal Intervention 2/1/2025 Oral Concurrent Sessions Innovative transcardiac access to the fetal cerebral and pelvic arteries for diagnosis and treatment. 8:00 AM 8:15 AM
Submitting Author and Presenting Author Jessian Munoz Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Oral Concurrent Session 8 - Fetus and Fetal Intervention 2/1/2025 Oral Concurrent Sessions Proteomic analysis of monochorionic pregnancies with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome and selective fetal growth restriction 8:45 AM 9:00 AM

Wednesday- Opening reception: 

Thursday- Break and Poster Session II (Hot cider beverage service in a keepsake mug)

Friday- Break and Poster Session III