Plenary lectures

Ying Cheong

Ying is a Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery and the Professor of Reproductive Medicine and the Associate Dean of Enterprise at the University of Southampton. She is the Medical Director of Complete Fertility Centre Southampton, UK. Ying’s research is on the endometrium and its environment for implantation and is an experience trialist involve with extensive translational research.

Joyce Harper

Joyce Harper is Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London in the Institute for Women’s Health where she is head of the Reproductive Health Department, Principal Investigator of the Reproductive Science and Society Group, Director of Education and Director of the Centre for Reproductive Health. She is a Director of the Embryology and PGD Academy which she established with Alpesh Doshi in 2014 and founder of Global Women Connected.

Robert John Norman

Professor Norman is a subspecialist in reproductive medicine and endocrine biochemistry from Adelaide South Australia. He was the inaugural Director of the Robinson Research Institute and Professor of reproductive and periconceptual medicine at the University of Adelaide. He works as a fertility specialist at FertiltySA and the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He is a life member of ESHRE.

Kieran O'Donnell

Dr. O’Donnell is an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine, where he leads the Health-Omics & Perinatal Epidemiology Research Group. Dr O’Donnell is a leading expert in perinatal mental health and the biological embedding of prenatal adversity. His research focuses on understanding the biological contribution to maternal perinatal mental health and the molecular mechanisms that link maternal antenatal distress to altered child development. Dr. O’Donnell is CIFAR Fellow (Child and Brain Development Program), an Adjunct Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University and Lead Investigator of the Montreal Antenatal Well-Being Study.

Kyle Orwig

Dr. Orwig is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also the director of the Fertility Preservation Program and the Center for Reproduction and Transplantation at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC. Research in the Orwig laboratory focuses on stem cells, germ lineage development, fertility and infertility. Our progress investigating reproductive function in fertile individuals provides a basis for understanding the mechanisms of infertility caused by disease, medical treatments, genetic defects or aging. Infertility impacts one in seven couples in the United States and can have a devastating impact on relationships, emotional well-being and overall health. The Orwig lab is ideally located in Magee-Womens Research Institute and Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh and is committed to translating lab bench discoveries to the clinic for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infertility.

Lan N Vuong

Prof. Dr. Vuong is the Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She was one of the IVF pioneers in Vietnam, starting in 1997. Her areas of research activity include ovulation induction, poor responder, IVM, frozen embryo transfer and follow-up of babies born after ART.