Amy Schumer: Virtual Welcome

Marlena Fejzo, PhD: The Search for a Cause: Multi-ethnic meta-analysis identifies new genes associated with HG

Stephen O'Rahilly, MD: GDF15 and the Pathogenesis of Pregnancy Sickness

Marc Vaudel, PhD: Contribution of Maternal, Paternal, and Fetal genes to HG and adverse outcomes

Tito Borner, PhD: Central Mechanisms of Nausea and Emesis: Insights from Preclinical Models

Amy Valent, DO: Nutrition and Perinatal Health

Nutrition Sessions

  • Jone Trovik, MD: Hyperemesis gravidarum patients are at high nutritional risk
  • Loïs Van der Minnen, BSc MPH: The Nutritional Status of Patients Hospitalized for Hyperemesis Gravidarum
  • Kate Maslin, PhD: The association between the Hyper Emesis Level Prediction score and nutritional intake in the first trimester in a pregnancy sickness cohort
  • Eileen O'Brien, PhD: Dietary intakes pre- and post-intervention: Results from The IRIS Clinic Study

Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical Trials. How Do We Do Studies that Are Meaningful to Patients moderated by Marlena Fejzo, PhD

  • Thomas J. Guttuso, Jr. MD: Gabapentin Trial Results and Challenges
  • Kizza Blair, MBChB: Comparative Analysis of Promethazine and Ondansetron for Hyperemesis Gravidarum Management: Effects on Pregnancy Outcomes in Primigravid Women in Northern Uganda
  • Iris Grooten, MD, PhD/ Anne Ostenfeld MD, PhD: Trials in HG Do's and Don'ts
Abstract Speaker Presentations
  • Susanne Koskinen Edblom, MD: Hyperemesis gravidarum and GDF-15 in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Iqra Khan, CMC: Transforming Hyperemesis Gravidarum Care... from hospital to the home
  • Joanne Sloan-Lancaster, PhD: NGM120, a GFRAL antagonist antibody, for Investigation of Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy in Hyperemesis Gravidarum

Aimee Brecht-Doscher, MD, Andrew Housholder, MD, Jone Trovik, MD: Difficult Cases Roundtable

Andrew Housholder, MD: The Morning Sickness Clinic: a new approach to care

Anne Ostenfeld, MD PhD: The HG Care quality improvement project

Shani Muhammad, MD: Implicit Bias: What is it and how do we keep it from harming our HG patients

Abstract Speakers
  • Louise Lindgren- Women’s and partner's experiences of being affected by Hyperemesis
  • Ellie Lewis: Hyperemesis Gravidarum and Cannabis Use in an International Sample of Pregnant People
  • Sarit Kang-Auger: Hyperemesis gravidarum and risk of severe maternal and fetal morbidity retrospective cohort study
  • Kathryn Filipczuk, BMedSc, Mpharm: Prednisolone weaning for hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) treatment - SLOW AND STEADY LEADS TO SUCCESS
  • Neelu Sharma: Pre-pregnancy metformin use associated with decreased risk of Hyperemesis Gravidarum

Policy/Advocacy/Law/Ethics session - moderated by Kimber MacGibbon, MSGH, RN 

  • Margaret Riley, JD: Advancing Clinical Research in the Pregnant Population
  • Kimber MacGibbon, MSGH, RN: Legislated Improvements in HG Care: Texas HHS Experience
  • Jennifer Fraser, PhD: Hyperemesis Histories: Charting the Evolution of HG Health Policy
  • Charlotte Howden: The Cronshaw Family's HG Experience