MEFS2023 Scientific Program pdf
THURSDAY November 2, 2023
OPENING CEREMONY - Room: 1 followed by opening reception at the Exhibit Area-
FRIDAY November 3, 2023
08:30- 09:00
Room 1
KEYNOTE LECTURE I: The Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud lecture - O1
Chair(s): Hisham Ayyoub (KSA)
09:00 - 10:00
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 1:
The Role of Reproductive Surgery in Modern Fertility Management
Chair(s): Micheal Fakih (UAE), Ziad Massaad (LEB)
09:00 O2 The future of Reproductive Surgery
Ricardo Loret de Mola (USA)
09:20 O3 Hysteroscopic role in the treatment of chronic endometritis
Martha Luna (Mexico)
09:40 O4 Mullerian Anomalies: The Uterine septum conundrum
Ricardo Loret de Mola (USA)
DISCUSSION
Room 2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 2:
Controversies in ART
Chair(s): Georges AbiTayeh (LEB), May Abu Ragheef IRQ)
09:00 O5 Critical appraisal of IVF/ICSI add-ons
Yacoub Khalaf (UK)
09:00 O6 PGT-A: Houston, we have a problem!
Bob Casper (Canada)
09:00 O7 PCOS: Does the Challenge End at Conception?
Fadi Mirza (UAE)
DISCUSSION
10:00- 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 3:
Recurrent Implantation Failure
Chair(s): Atyaf Al Dawoodi (IRQ), Hady Elhachem (LEB)
10:30 O8 Recurrent implantation failure (RIF): is it the soil or the seed?
Dominique De Ziegler (France)
10:50 O9 Is effective management of recurrent implantation failure possible?
Yacoub Khalaf (UK)
11:10 O10 NIPT: What Happened Over the Last Decade?
Fadi Mirza (UAE)
DISCUSSION
Room 2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 4:
Controlled Ovarian Stimulation
Chair: Marwan Alhalabi (SYR), Toufic Nakad (LEB),
10:30 O11 Is there an optimal dose of FSH for ovarian stimulation?
Ioannis Messinis (Greece)
10:30 O12 Manipulations of folliculogenesis to improve ovarian stimulation
Renato Fanchin (France)
10:30 O13 Intrauterine synechiae (Asherman Syndrome): New treatment approaches
Cihat Unlu (Turkey)
DISCUSSION
11:30 12:30
MERCK Symposium
11:30 - 11:40 Understanding the spectrum of response
Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
11:40 - 12:00 Developing a personalized approach to optimize outcomes in normal and hyper responders
Dania Al Jaroudi
12:00 - 12:20 Developing a personalized approach to optimize outcomes in hypo responders
Yasmin Sajjad
12:20 - 12:30 Panel discussion
All faculty
12:30 Concluding remarks
Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
12:30 13:30 Lunch Break
KEYNOTE LECTURE II: The Professor AboulGhar lecture– O14
Chair: Yacoub Khalaf (UK)
ASRM’s Practice Guidance – How are They Developed?
Jared Robins (USA)
14:00 15:30
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 5:
Management of Diminished Ovarian Reserve
Chair(s): Muhammad Bugnah (KSA), Elie Snaifer (LEB)
14:00 O15 Poor responder protocols
Marcelle Cedars (USA)
14:20 O16 Refinements in the assessment of ovarian follicular status
Renato Fanchin (France)
14:40 O17 Do we need to be hypervigilant during IVF with the severely diminished ovarian reserve patient?
Martha Luna (Mexico)
15:00 O18 Adjuvant treatments in poor ovarian responders
Dalia Khalifeh (UAE)
DISCUSSION
Room2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 6:
Frozen Embryo Transfer: Tips and Tricks
Chair(s): Hazem Al Rumaih (KWT), Elias karam (LEB)
14:00 O19 Frozen embryo transfers (FET): New challenges
Dominique De Ziegler (France)
14:20 O20 Artificial or Natural cycle for Frozen ET: The CFAS Guidelines.
Elias Dahdouh (Canada)
14:40 O21 Letrozole for the preparation of frozen embryo transfer: Promising scenarios
Eman Elgindy (Egypt)
15:00 O22 Freeze all embryos in all IVF cycles?
Basil Tarlatzis (Greece)
DISCUSSION
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 17:00
Room 1
REPROLIFE Symposium: The future of Vitrification: Cryotec Ready to Use series.
Introduction of Clinical Result and Laboratory Performance Efficiency"
Dima Durra (Jordan), Ruba Adnan Al Tabari (Jordan)
DISCUSSION
Room 2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 7:
Controversies in ART
Chair(s): Ahmad Ghiyath Shayeb (KSA), Ghazi Ibrahim (IRQ)
16:00 O23 Platelet rich plasma in reproductive medicine: looking for the evidence
AboBakr Alnashar (Egypt)
16:20 O24 Current controversies in male infertility
Bassel Bachir (Lebanon)
16:40 O25 Adenomyosis and Reproduction
Ebrahim PARSANEZHAD (Iran)
DISCUSSION
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 8: GLOBAL JOURNAL CLUB
In Collaboration with Fertility & Sterility (Disseminated live online)
Chair(s): Ricardo Loret de Mola (USA)
Faculty: Baris Ata (Turkey), Dominique de Ziegler (France), Eman Elgindy (Egypt), Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
J1
Recurrent implantation failure: reality or a statistical mirage?
Consensus statement from the July 1, 2022. Lugano Workshop on recurrent
implantation failure
(The writing group) for the participants to the 2022 Lugano RIF Workshop: Paul Pirtea, Marcelle Cedars, Kate Devine, Baris Ata, Jason Franasiak, Catherine Racowsky, Jim Toner, Richard Scott, Dominique de Ziegler, Kurt T. Barnhart.
Fertility and Sterility® Vol. 120, No. 1, July 2023 0015-0282
SATURDAY November 4, 2023
08:30 - 10:00
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 9:
Innovation in Reproductive Medicine
Chair(s): Sallama Alkhudhair (IRQ), Özlem Moraloğlu Tekin (TUR)
08:30- O26 Is the era of Precision Reproductive Medicine coming?
Sergio Papier (Argentina)
08:50 O27 Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy: past, present, and future?
Elias Dahdouh (Canada)
09:10 O28 Stem cell role in reproduction between haste and hype
Anis Feki (Switzerland)
09:30 O29 Genomics and multi-omic tools for the study & diagnosis of fertility disorders
Matteo Avella (Qatar)
DISCUSSION
Room 2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 10:
Improving Reproductive Outcomes
Chair(s):Samir Abbas (KSA)- Ibrahim Saleh M. Hassan (ETH)
08:50 O31 Unexplained Infertility- How Far Should We Look?
Jared Robins (USA)
09:10 O32 Endometrial thickness in ART- is it always a crucial determinant of success?
Baris Ata (Turkey)
09:30 O33 Impact of controlled ovarian stimulation on thyroid function
Ruben Tlapanco (Mexico)
DISCUSSION
10:00 -10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room 1
KEYNOTE LECTURE III: The ASRM Exchange lecture – O34
Chair(s): Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
PGT-P (polygenic risk scoring) – science and ethics
Marcelles Cedars (USA)
11:00 - 11:30
Room 1
KEYNOTE LECTURE IV :The ESHRE Exchange lecture - O35
Chair(s): Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
Tissue engineering and its potential in reproduction
Anis Feki (Switzerland)
11:30 - 12:30
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 11:
Reproductive Medicine
Chair(s): Salam Jibreel (BAH), Gürkan Bozdağ (TUR)
11:30 O36 Latin-American Association of Reproductive Medicine [ALMER] Exchange Lecture:
Development and future of Reproductive Medicine: A medical and social perspective
Sergio Papier (Argentina)
11:50 O37 The Mexican Society for Reproductive Medicine Exchange Lecture:
Institutional experience in assisted reproduction at the National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City
Ruben Tlapanco (Mexico)
12:10 O38 Is there an ideal time to start ovarian stimulation?
Baris Ata (Turkey)
DISCUSSION
Room 2
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 12:
EMBRYOLOGY
Embryology Special Interest Group
Chair(s): Rana Al Hamdan (KSA), Fadi Choucair (QAT)- Mamoon Banat (CAN)
11:30 O39 The biology of gamete differentiation, recognition and fusion
Matteo Avella (Qatar)
11:50 O40 Outcome of the Functionality Tests Performed on the Novel Embryo-View Enabled Climate-Controlled Miniature Embryo Culture Incubation Chamber (MIC)
Ali Jaffar (Malaysia)
12:05 O41 Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) Proves to be an Effective Assistant for Clinical Embryologists in Laboratory Tasks: A Pilot Cross-sectional Study
Fadi Choucair (Qatar)
12:20 O42 Burnout among IVF Lab staff: Identifying Triggers and Implementing Solutions - Worldwide Survey
Mamoon Banat (Canada)
DISCUSSION
12:30 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30
Room 1
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 13:
Reproductive Medicine
Chair(s): İbrahim Polat (TUR)- Patrick Zaarour (LEB)
14:00 O44 Effectiveness of Embryo Assessment Tools two decades later!
Johnny Awwad (Qatar)
14:20 O45 Progestin primed ovarian stimulation
Mohammad Youssef (Egypt)
14:40 O46 Hormonal treatment in the management of infertile men
Bassel Bachir (Lebanon)
15:00 O47 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Challenges and potential resolutions
Ariana Jawad (Iraq)
DISCUSSION
CONCURRENT SCIENTIFIC SESSION 14:
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Chair(s): Samir Abbas (KSA), Mohamad Al Halabi (SYR)
14:00 O48 Prof Samir Abbas Award Paper:
Lactobacillus plantarum secretions may exert a cryoprotective effect on human sperm motility: A prospective in vitro study
George Raad (Lebanon)
14:15 O49 Prof Samir Abbas Award Paper:
The Effect of Endometrial Scratch on Pregnancy Rate in Women with Previous Intrauterine Insemination Failure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Said Baradwan (KSA)
14:30 O50 Uncovering the Impact of IGF-1 Levels on Growth Hormone Therapy Outcomes in IVF: A Sub-Study of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Wael Jamal (Canada)
14:45 O51 An evaluation of machine learning models for predicting ovarian response: incorporating age, antral follicular count, and ovarian 3D vaginal power Doppler vascularity indices
Chadi Fakih (Lebanon)
15:00 O52 Microbiomes of the Follicular Fluid in ART Patients
Odai Alqawasmeh (Jordan)
DISCUSSION
15:30 -16:00 Coffee Break
16:00- 18:00
Room 1
ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION 1:
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Chair(s): Fazilet Kübra Boynukalın (TUR)- Mohamed Said ElMahaishi (LIB), Eman Al Azzawi (OMN)
16:00 O54 Morphometric and Dynamic Time-lapse Analysis of Spontaneous Blastocyst Collapse: Relevant Demographic and Cycle-Related Variables and their Effects on Single Embryo Transfer Cycle Outcomes
Lina Alhebshi (KSA)
16:15 O55 Open Versus Closed Vitrification of Mouse Oocytes Using the Same Carrier
Abdulaziz Alfuraydi (KSA)
16:30 O56 Association of VDR rs2228570 SNP with vitamin D levels in polycystic ovarian syndrome women of Arab ethnicity
Maha Al Khaduri (Oman)
16:45 O57 Embryological Outcomes and Biochemical Pregnancy Rate in ICSI Cycles Using Totally Immotile Surgically Retrieved Sperm
Omar Ammar (Iraq)
17:00 O58 Ethanol Sclerotherapy versus Laparoscopic Surgery in Management of Ovarian Endometrioma
Kerfa Salah-eddine (Algeria)
17:15 O59 Importance of sperm reactive oxygen species on sperm function and intrauterine insemination results
Nabil Saymé ( Germany )
17:30 O60 Sex selection in assisted reproductive technologies: Ethical imperatives from Iraq
Omar Ammar (Iraq)
Room 2
ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION 2:
Assisted Reproductive Technology
Chair(s): Iman Flayyih (IRQ), Chadi Fakih (LEB), Suad Tahar (IRQ)
16:00 O61 The correlation between low AMH concentrations with respect to age and pregnancy outcome in IVF/ICSI Cycles, a cross sectional study
Kamal Eldin Rageh (Bahrain)
16:15 O62 The correlation between the degree of endometriosis and follicle /oocyte maturity and effective approach to achieve better ART outcome in patients
Marzieh Derakhshan (Iran)
16:30 O63 Effect of Mixed Gonadotropins on pregnancy Rate in Comparison to Mono Gonadotropin in Antagonist Protocol ICSI Cycles’ Stimulation
Hind Al-Dabal (KSA)
16:45 O64 Evaluation of endometrial thickness on pregnancy rate in Fresh embryo transfer derived from Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles
Shirzad Hosseinishenatal (Iran)
17:00 O65 Prediction of pregnancy by measuring progesterone and activin A level six days after embryo transfer in women undergoing ICSI cycle
Saad Al-Dujaily (Iraq)
17:15 O66 Evaluating the effect of predictive performance factors on pregnancy outcome in Women undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection treatment
Shirzad Hosseinishenatal (Iran)
17:30 O67 The Update Technologies in Infertility Treatment
Iman Hasan Flayyih (Iraq)
