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

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Steven Bauer

Chief Regulatory Science Affairs

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

 

Karin Blakemore

Director, Prenatal Genetics, Prenatal Diagnostic Center

Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Johns Hopkins Medicine

The John Hopkins University

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Najat Bouchkouj

Medical Officer

Malignant Hematology Branch

Division of Clinical Evaluation Hematology

Office of Clinical Evaluation

Office of Therapeutic Products

FDA/CBER

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Beltran Borges

Department of Surgery, UCSF

UCSF Center for Maternal-Fetal Precision Medicine

The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine 

and Stem Cell Research at UCSF

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Chris H. Boshoff

Program Director

Division of Translational Research

National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke

National Institutes of Health​

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Trevor D. Burt

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Division of Neonatology

Duke University School of Medicine

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Emma Canepa

Program Manager 

University of California, San Francisco

 

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

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Alta Charo

Knowles Professor Emerita of Law & Bioethics

University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

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

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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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Richard S. Finkel

Director, Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics

George J. Pedersen Endowed Chair in Neurotherapeutics

​St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 

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Agnès Jaulent

Project Leader and Alliance Manager

EspeRare Foundation - Advancing treatments for rare diseases together

Geneva, Switzerland

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​ Brenda Latham-Sadler 

Vice-Chief Academic Officer, 

Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI)

Clinical Professor Family and Community Medicine

Affiliate in the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity

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Baisong Lu

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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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

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Zubin Master

Associate Professor

Social Sciences and Health Policy

Wake Forest School of Medicine

 

Josh T. Maxwell

Assistant Professor 

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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Sébastian Mazzuri

Prenatal Platform Director EspeRare

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Sean Murphy 

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine

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

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Russ Read

Executive Director for the National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce Program 

Forsyth Tech Community College

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Joan Schanck

Chief Education Program Officer

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine 

Wake Forest School of Medicine

 

Stephen Sawyer 

Assistant Professor of Regenerative Medicine

Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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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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Rebecca Spencer

NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Subspecialty Trainee in Maternal and Fetal Medicine

University of Leeds

UK

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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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Cynthia J. Tifft                        

Deputy Clinical Director & Senior Clinician

National Human Genome Research Institute 

Director, Pediatric Undiagnosed Diseases Program

National Institutes of Health

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Aijun Wang

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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Lisbeth Welniak

Program Director

Translational Blood Sciences and Resources Branch

Division of Blood Diseases and Resources

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute 

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