Course 4

Lifestyle and male reproduction

Organised by the Special Interest Group Andrology

Course Coordinators: Sheena Lewis (United Kingdom) and Lars Bjorndahl (Sweden)

Course desciption: This course will present the causal links between lifestyle choices, general male health, systemic disease and human reproductive health.
The impact on male reproductive health will be addressed as follows:
i) prenatal influences, dietary habits during childhood and puberty,
ii) adolescents and adults: obesity, diabetes and other systemic disorders, sexually transmitted infections and cancer therapies
iii) alcohol, tobacco and recreational drug use on male reproductive health

Target audience: Clinicians, paramedical staff, embryologists and andrologists with an interest in the effects of lifestyle factors on human male reproduction

Chairs: Lars Bjorndahl (Sweden) and Sheena Lewis (United Kingdom)

09:00 - 09:30	In utero influences on future male fertility: effects of environmental chemicals and life-style / Olle Söder (Sweden)
09:30 - 09:45	Discussion
09:45 - 10:15	Obesity and Diabetes: disease and effects on male fertility / Stefan Arver (Sweden)
10:15 - 10:30	Discussion
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30	STIs / Falk R. Ochsendorf (Germany)
11:30 - 11:45	Discussion
11:45 - 12:15	Genetically determined susceptibility to iatrogenic therapies / Yvonne Lundberg-Giwercman (Sweden)
12:15 - 12:30	Discussion
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch

13:30 - 14:00	Cancer: impact of disease and therapy on male fertility – Bernard Robaire (Canada)
14:00 - 14:15	Dicussion
14:15 - 14:45	Recreational drugs (smoking, alcohol and cannabis) / Sheena Lewis (United Kingdom)
14:45 - 15:00	Discussion
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00	Good sperm, good brain? / Arand Pierce (USA)
16:00 - 16:15	Discussion
16:15 - 16:45	Exercise: Fit sperm? / Diana Vaamonde (Spain)
16.45 - 17.00	Discussion