Program


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Session 1: PATIENTS DIVERSITY IN MODERN HUMAN REPRODUCTION
Chairs: Dolors Manau (Spain) – Marta Devesa (Spain)
15:00 – 15:30
Advanced maternal age: How does it affect reproductive outcomes?
Dominic Stoop (Belgium)
15:30 – 16:00
Should increased BMI be a reason to delay ART?
José Bellver (Spain)
16:00 – 16:30
Female cancer survivors: fertility before and after treatment
Richard Anderson (UK)

Session 2: DEBATE IN INTENSITY OF OVARIAN STIMULATION
Chairs: Richard Anderson (UK) – Pedro N. Barri (Spain)
16:30 – 17:30
Mild ovarian stimulation in poor responders
Yes for all: Bart Fauser (Netherlands)
Not for all: Panagiotis Drakopoulos (Belgium)

17:30 – 18:30
COFFEE BREAK

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Session 3: MODERNIZING OVARIAN STIMULATION
Chairs: Juan José Espinós (Spain) – Francisca Martínez (Spain)
18:30 – 19:00
Luteal phase stimulation: starting stimulating any day!
Annalisa Racca (Spain)
19:00 – 19:30
Progestin primed ovarian stimulation (PPOS). Let’s use some progesterone to control the ovaries
Baris Ata (Turkey)
19:30 – 20:00
Individualized COS. Is there any role for pharmacogenomics to select ovarian stimulation strategies?
Joaquín Llacer (Spain)

Sala Planta -1

Session A Embryology: MODERNIZING EMBRYO CULTURE
Chair: Miquel Solé (Spain)
18:30 – 19:00
Optimizing embryo culture: What are we missing?
Thomas Fréour (France)
19:00 – 19:30
Live session from the lab. From the theory to the practice
Gemma Arroyo (Spain)
19:30 – 20:00
Interactions with the audience
Thomas Fréour (France)
Gemma Arroyo (Spain)



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Session 4 – LUTEAL PHASE
Chairs: Ramón Aurell (Spain) – Annalisa Racca (Spain)
09:00 – 09:30
Luteal phase deficiency in fresh and frozen embryo transfer cycle
Peter Humaidan (Denmark)
09:30 – 10:00
Individualized LPS. Is it only a matter of a single P4 measurement?
Manuel Álvarez (Spain)
10:00 – 10:30
Natural versus artificial ART cycles for frozen embryotransfers. Wider implications
Anja Pinborg (Denmark)

Sala Planta -1

Session B Embryology: THE EMBRYO SELECTION PHASE
Chairs: Mark Grossman (Spain) – Clara González (Spain)
09:00 – 09:30
Improving embryo selection by time-lapse
Kersti Lundin (Sweden)
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09:30 – 10:00
Blastocyst scoring practical session
Beatriz Carrasco (Spain)
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10:00 – 10:30
Reviewing the available blastocyst scores. Time for consensus?
Giovanni Coticchio (Italy)


10:30 – 11:30
COFFEE BREAK

Session 5 – IMPLANTATION
Chairs: Miguel Ángel Checa (Spain) – Nikolaos Polyzos (Spain)
11:30 – 12:00
Recurrent implantation failure: Does it really exist, can we deal with it?
Edgardo Somigliana (Italy)
12:00 – 12:30
Why euploids embryos do not implant: the embryologist and geneticist view
Antonio Capalbo (Italy)
12:30 – 13:00
Add-ons for embryo implantation. Should we eventually stop “cooking”?
Kersti Lundin (Sweden)

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13:00 – 14:00
DEBATE Endometriosis and embryo implantation
Chairs: Edgardo Somigliana (Italy) – Pere Barri Soldevila (Spain)
We should operate before: Simone Ferrero (Italy)
We should not: Pietro Santulli (France)

Sala Planta -1

13:00 – 14:00
SESSION C: DEBATE Embryology: ICSI FOR ALL
Chair: Monica Parriego (Spain)
Pro conventional: Thomas Ebner (Austria)
Pro ICSI: Carlos Plancha (Portugal) 



14:00 – 15:30
LUNCH

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Session 6 – WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF ART
Chairs: Peter Humaidan (Denmark) – Anna Veiga (Spain)
15:30 – 16:00
Artificial ovaries
Anna Seriola (Spain)
16:00 – 16:30
In vitro ovarian activation: experimental or ready for the prime time?
Francesc Fàbregues (Spain)
16:30 – 17:00
Androgens and ovarian response: are we ready to hear the truth?
Nikolaos Polyzos (Spain)
17:00 – 17:30
Spindle transfer: is it the new success story in the lab?
Nuno Costa Borges (Spain)

17:30 – 18:30
COFFEE BREAK

18:30 – 19:00
Award José María Dexeus Medal

19:00 – 19:30
XVII Premio y Beca de la Fundación Dexeus Mujer


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Session 7 – DEBATING IN ART
09:00 – 10:00
DEBATE Selecting the perfect embryo
Chairs: Carlos Plancha (Portugal) – Montse Boada (Spain)
Through imaging and Artificial Intelligence
Marcos Meseguer (Spain)
Through invasive and non-invasive preimplantation testing
Antonio Capalbo (Italy)

10:00 – 11:00
DEBATE – Endometrial receptivity assays
Chairs: Piotr Sokol (Spain) y Nikolaos Polyzos (Spain)
Revolution in optimizing embryo transfer
Evolution towards the future: José Antonio Horcajadas (Spain)
Evolution towards the past: Yacoub Khalaf (UK)

11:00 – 12:00
COFFEE BREAK

12:00 – 13:00
DEBATE – Chronic endometritis
Chairs: Daniel Mataró (Spain) – Alicia Úbeda (Spain)
Hysteroscopy & antibiotics is enough: Ettore Cicinelli (Italy)
(R)evolution with the microbiome: Shari Mackens (Belgium)

13:00 – 13:45
CLOSING Keynote lecture
Chair: Pedro N. Barri (Spain)
Anna Veiga (Spain)