Confirmed Speakers in Alphabetic Order:

 

Anthony Atala

W.H. Boyce Professor of Urology

G. Link Professor

Director of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Chair, Department of Urology

Wake Forest School of Medicine

 

Graça Almeida-Porada

Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Director, Fetal Research and Therapy Program

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

 

Karin Blackmore

Director, Prenatal Genetics, Prenatal Diagnostic Center

Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Johns Hopkins Medicine

The John Hopkins University

 

Trevor D. Burt

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Division of Neonatology

Duke University School of Medicine

 

Jerry Chan Kok Yen

Senior Consultant

Associate Professor, Program in Cancer and Stem Cell Biology

Associate Professor, Experimental Fetal Medicine Group

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Duke National University of Singapore

 

Jennifer L. Cohen

Pediatric Medical Genetics Specialist

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Division of Medical Genetics

Duke University

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Agnieszka Czechowicz

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation

Stanford University

 

Anna David

Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine

University College London (UCL)

EGA Institute for Women’s Health, UK

 

Paolo de Coppi

NIHR Professor

Nuffield Professor of Paediatric Surgery

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

Honorary Professor, Wake Forest University

Honorary Professor, University of Padova

 

Christopher Doering

Professor of Pediatrics - Cell and Gene Therapy 

Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center

Emory University School of Medicine

 

Diana Farmer

Distinguished Professor

Pearl Stamps Stewart Endowed Chair of Surgery

Founder and Co-Director, Center for Surgical Bioengineering

Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Shriners Hospitals – Northern California

PI, the CuRe trial

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Cecilia Götherström

Senior Researcher

Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology – CLINTEC

Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital

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P. Ellen Grant

Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center

Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics

Harvard Medical School

Boston Children's Hospital

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Tippi C. MacKenzie

Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.

Professor of Surgery

Division of Pediatric Surgery

Fetal Treatment Center

University of California, San Francisco

 

Josh T. Maxwell

Assistant Professor 

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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Mary Norton

Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Genetics

Director, Program in Genetic and Genomic Prenatal Medicine

Perinatologist and Medical Geneticist

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

University of California, San Francisco

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Darren Orbach

Sage Schermerhorn Chair in Image-Guided Therapy

Co-Director,  Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions Center

Chief, Neurointerventional Radiology

Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Vice President, World Federation of Interventional & Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN)

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William H Peranteau 

Attending surgeon in the Division of General, Thoracic and Fetal Surgery

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Adzick-McCausland Distinguished Chair in Fetal and Pediatric Surgery.

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Christopher Porada

Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

 

Panicos Shangaris 

Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant in Maternal & Fetal Medicine  

Department of Women and Children’s Health, & Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology

King's College London, King’s College Hospital & North Middlesex University Hospital

Module Leader Fetal Genomics & Pharmacogenomics and Stratified Healthcare, MSc Genomic Medicine (SGUL-KCL)

Confidential Advisor, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine

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H. Trent Spencer

Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Emory University School of Medicine

Director, Gene and Cell Therapy

Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar

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David Stitelman

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics)

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Division of Pediatric Surgery

Yale University School of Medicine

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Simon Waddington

Reader in Gene Transfer Technology

Acting Director of the EGA Institute for Women's Health

Professor of Gene Therapy

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

University College London

 

Aijun Wang, Ph.D.

Chancellor's Fellow Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering

Co-Director, Center for Surgical Bioengineering 

Vice Chair for Translational Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Department of Surgery | UC Davis School of Medicine 

Principal Investigator, Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine (IPRM) / Shriners Children’s Northern California

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Magnus Westgren

Obstetric Director at Karolinska University Hospital

Professor and Head, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention

and Technology

Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital