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2018 ISPD Conference

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07:00 CEST

Registration Desk Open Atrium

07:30 CEST

ISPD Global Outreach Meeting Gorilla Room 5

08:30 CEST

Debate 2 - NIPT results suggesting maternal cancer should always be disclosed Queen Elisabeth Hall

09:30 CEST

Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Award: Germline mosaicism is a pitfall in PGD for X‐linked disorders. Single sperm typing detects very low frequency paternal gonadal mosaicism in a case of recurrent chondrodysplasia punctata... Queen Elisabeth Hall

09:45 CEST

Prenatal Diagnosis Journal Report Queen Elisabeth Hall

10:00 CEST

Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors Atrium Exhibits Open Atrium Posters Available for Viewing Atrium

10:30 CEST

Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling Invited Presentation: Educating professionals on delivering NIPT to meet patient needs Okapi Room 2&3 Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: Alternative approaches towards NIPT: Cervical cells Queen Elisabeth Hall

10:55 CEST

Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling Invited Presentation: Prenatal decision-making aids Okapi Room 2&3 Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: Pushing the envelope in NIPT of single gene diseases through haplotyping Queen Elisabeth Hall

11:20 CEST

Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-1 Assessment of Patient Understanding of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing Following Introduction of Three Systematic Patient Counselling Models Okapi Room 2&3 Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-1 Pan-ethnic expanded carrier testing for branched chain amino acid disorders Queen Elisabeth Hall

11:34 CEST

Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-2 Use of a novel tablet-based decision aid for prenatal aneuploidy screening and testing: A randomized controlled trial Okapi Room 2&3 Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-2 Haplotyping and copy number profiling of single cells by using extended family members: broadening the applicability of... Queen Elisabeth Hall

11:48 CEST

Session 3 | Prenatal Counseling: 3-3 Accessibility of conflict of interest disclosures for professional medical societies of relevance to the practice of prenatal diagnosis Okapi Room 2&3 Session 4 | The expanding scope of Non-invasive prenatal testing Invited Presentation: 4-3 Restricting NIPT for fetal fraction only, does it still make sense? Queen Elisabeth Hall

12:00 CEST

Attended Poster Session 2 Atrium Lunch with Posters and Exhibitors Atrium

12:05 CEST

Exhibitor Showcase - PerkinElmer Atrium

13:00 CEST

Fetal Therapy SIG Meeting Gorilla Room 4 Genetic Counseling SIG Meeting Gorilla Room 5

14:00 CEST

Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-1 The BElgian PREnatal MicroArray consortium: towards relating prenatally detected CNVs, prenatal phenotype and postnatal clinical data Queen Elisabeth Hall

14:15 CEST

Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-2 Improving uptake of perinatal autopsy: Lessons learned from parents and key stakeholders Queen Elisabeth Hall

14:30 CEST

Best Early Career Investigator Finalist: E-3 Sensitivity of non-invasive prenatal testing for cancer detection and treatment monitoring in pregnant women Queen Elisabeth Hall

14:44 CEST

Joe Leigh Simpson Award for Best Early Career Investigator Queen Elisabeth Hall

14:45 CEST

Plenary - Do You Agree with the Experts? Queen Elisabeth Hall

15:30 CEST

Beverage Break with Posters and Exhibitors Atrium

16:00 CEST

Plenary - Big data and A.I. Queen Elisabeth Hall

16:30 CEST

Late-breaking Abstract: LB-1 The potential diagnostic yield of Whole Exome Sequencing in 391 pregnancies complicated by fetal ultrasound anomalies and with normal chromosomal microarray results Queen Elisabeth Hall

16:45 CEST

Late-breaking Abstract: LB-2 A new era in aneuploidy screening for multifetal gestations: Clinical laboratory experience screening >30,000 cell-free DNA samples Queen Elisabeth Hall

17:00 CEST

ISPD General Business Meeting Queen Elisabeth Hall

17:30 CEST

ISPD Education Committee Meeting Gorilla Room 5 Illumina Industry Symposium and Reception Gorilla Room 1