Organized by the Task Force Reproduction and Society
Course co-ordinator: Egbert te Velde (The Netherlands) and Lone Schmidt (Denmark)
Teaching aims & course description: In this course we aim to go beyond the usual margins of our discipline and catch your attention for the paramount importance of prevention of infertility.
In dealing with patients, in our social surroundings but also in our teaching responsibilities prevention of infertility is important, may be more so than you have realized so far. In fact preventive measures can already start before conception, may be even before the time people realize they wish to have children. But preventive thinking might also be important for couples who intend to have children much later in life e.g. around women’s menopause. In between those periods, raising fertility awareness in young people, measures to prevent STDs and giving advice to women and men how to combine a stressful, heavy or responsible job with the wish to have children, are some of the topics to be covered. Much attention is focused on the impact of postponing parenthood on fertility. Can we do something to prevent this, can we predict which women and men rather should not postpone but also: can society play a role and do something about it?
Attending this course might change the routine of your daily practice
Target audience: Reproductive physicians, paramedical personnel and all those who are interested in the epidemiological, social and ethical aspects of our work.
Chair: Paul Devroey (Belgium)
09:00 – 09:30
What is infertility and what is prevention of infertility? - Dik Habbema (The Netherlands)
09:30 – 09:45
Discussion
09.45 - 10:15
Preconception planning for a healthy start to life – Robert Norman (Australia)
10.15 - 10.30
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30
Raising fertility awareness in young people – Jacky Boivin (United Kingdom)
11:30 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:15
Prevention of sexually-transmitted diseases – Lone Schmidt (Denmark)
12:15 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
Chair: Lone Schmidt (Denmark)
13:30 – 14:00
Prevention of infertility at the work place – Jens Peter Bonde (Denmark)
14:00 – 14:15
14:15 – 14:45
The effect of postponing first child birth on primary and secondary infertility – is prevention possible? – Egbert te Velde (The Netherlands)
14.45 – 15:00
15.00 - 15.30
15:30 – 16:00
Policy measures that can affect the timing of the first birth – Ronald Rindfuss (USA)
16:00 – 16:15
16.15 - 16.45
Improving equal and open access to ART: prevention of involuntarily childlessness of the underprivileged - Alan Trounson (USA)
16.45 - 17.00
17:00 – 17:30
Freezing gametes and gonads: the solution to prevent infertility in men and women - Sjoerd Repping (The Netherlands)
17:30 – 17:45