Scientific Program

Friday, September 30, 2022 – starting at 13:00 CEST
(Paris – 13:00, Hong Kong – 19:00, San Diego – 04:00, New York – 07:00, Buenos Aires – 08:00)

  Welcome – Zeev Shoham, Israel, Milton Leong, Hong Kong
13:00-14:20 Session 1: Giants in Reproductive Medicine
13:00-13:30 John Yovich, Australia introducing Ian Logan Craft, UK
13:30-13:40 Richard Anderson, UK introducing David Baird, UK
13:40-13:50 Gamal Serour, Egypt Introducing Sherman Silber, USA
13:50-14:20 Fertility preservation in children: ovary allotransplantation for Turners girls and testicle microvascular autotransplantation for high cryptorchidism
Sherman Silber, USA
14:20-14:30 Break
14:30-16:10 Special Lectures:
14:30-15:10 Denny Sakkas introducing David Gardner for receiving the awarded the “Order of Australia”
On the future of IVF: Seeing forward by looking back
David Gardner, Australia
15:10-15:40 IVF/ART Breakthrough from ”GEROSCIENCE”- The newly conceived field slowing aging
Gerald Schatten, USA
15:40-16:10 The future of ART treatment from my perspective
Carlos Simon, Spain
16:10-16:40 Session 2: Luteal phase and endometrial receptivity
16:10-16:40 Luteal support
Lee Shulman, USA
16:40-17:45 Session 3: The Sperm
Moderator: Ariel Weissman, Israel
16:40-17:15 Sperm selection for IVF – Where are we now and what holds the future?
Ofer Fainaru, Israel
17:15-17:45 New Approaches in the Development of Spermatogenesis In vitro
Mahmoud Huleihel, Israel
17:45-18:40 Session 4: Implantation
17:45-18:10 Post-warming blastocyst morphology and live birth.
Yossi Mizrachi, Australia
18:10-18:40 A novel reproducible objective ultrasound measurement tool for diagnostics and fertility success
Dick Schoot, The Netherlands

Saturday, October 1, 2022 – starting at 10:00 CEST
(Paris – 10:00, Hong Kong – 16:00, San Diego – 01:00, New York – 04:00, Buenos Aires – 05:00)

10:00-10:55 Session 5: Debate: ICSI should be used for nearly all IVF cycles
Moderator: Roy Homburg, UK
10:00-10:55 For: John Yovich, Australia
Against: Bryan Woodward, UK
10:55-12:20 Session 6: Ovarian reactivation and Immune modulation in RIF
10:55-11:25 Ovarian reactivation
Sonia Herraiz, Spain
11:25-12:20 Debate: Immune modulation in RIF
Moderator: Juan Antonio Garcia Velasco, Spain
For: Diana Alecsandru, Spain
Against: Joaquin Llacer, Spain
12:20-12:30 Break
12:30-14:45 Session 7: Implantation
12:30-12:45 Hyaluronic acid (embryo glue) in embryo transfer: myth or reality
Devorah Heymann, Israel
12:45-13:15 Different methods of evaluating the endometrium before the embryo transfer
Jigal Haas, Israel
13:15-13:45 Obesity and IVF
Seang Lin Tan, Canada
13:45-14:15 Enhance implantation with the use of GH and autologous platelet-rich plasma
Jan Tesarik, Spain
14:15-14:45 How the Blastocyst facilitates Implantation
David Gardner, Australia
14:45-15:10 Session 8: Surrogacy
14:45-15:10 Surrogacy: Medical, ethical and legal aspects
Joseph Schenker, Israel