Category: Conferences

Monqiue Hinchcliff, MD, MS, Oncofertility Consortium Conference Speaker

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - August 27, 2014

Categories: Blog, Conferences, General, Oncofertility, Research

Dr. Monique Hinchcliff is the Associate Clinical Director and the Director of Translational Research for the Northwestern Scleroderma Program. Her research interests include the use of high-throughput, unbiased, approaches to define clinically relevant molecular subsets of systemic sclerosis/scleroderma. Since 2008, she has led the effort…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - August 25, 2014

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Education, Fertility Preservation, General, Oncofertility, Research

Tags: Conference, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility

Today’s speaker bio is Kyle Orwig, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Orwig will be giving a talk at the conference entitled: Stem Cell Therapies for Male Infertility. Dr. Orwig joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 2003 and is currently Associate…

By: Lauren Ataman-Millhouse - August 19, 2014

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Introductions, Oncofertility

Tags: clinical research, Conference, cryopreservation, Fertility Preservation, OCC 2014, Oncofertility

In anticipation of the Oncofertility Consortium Conference on September 22-23, we will be showcasing our conference speakers in an upcoming series of blogs. Each year the OC conference features the leading national and international experts in the field of fertility preservation. This year’s conference is…

By: Brigid Martz Smith - September 26, 2013

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Education, Fertility Preservation, General, National Physicians Cooperative, Oncofertility

Tags: Conference, Fertility Preservation, National Physicians Cooperative, Oncofertility

Oncofertility is a multidisciplinary field of experts coming together to provide fertility options to cancer patients. The multidisciplinary nature of the field was on display during our 7th annual Oncofertility Conference in Chicago, Illinois. During the course of the conference, we saw presentations from international…

First Conference of Society for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 16, 2013

Categories: Blog, Conferences

Tags: AYA, Conference

The Society for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology was founded to engage professionals who are dedicated to improving adolescent and young adult cancer care across the world. It promotes interdisciplinary research, education, and collaboration in order to advance understanding of the unique biology and treatment…

President-Elect of the American Medical Association To Speak at the 2013 Oncofertility Conference

By: Oncofertility Admin - August 8, 2013

Categories: Blog, Conferences, fertility, Oncofertility

Tags: 2013 Oncofertility Conference, cancer, Fertility Preservation, MD, Oncofertility, Robert M Wah

The Oncofertility Consortium is proud to announce that Robert M. Wah, MD, reproductive endocrinologist, ob-gyn, and president- elect of the American Medical Association (AMA), will be speaking at the 2013 Oncofertility Conference on the evening of September 9th. Dr. Wah practices and teaches at the…

Preventing Eggs’ Death from Chemotherapy

By: Oncofertility Admin - June 17, 2013

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, fertility, General

Tags: cancer, Conference, fertility

Scientists discover cause of immature eggs’ death from cancer drug and how to prevent it MEDIA CONTACT: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or marla-paul@northwestern.edu CHICAGO — Young women who have cancer treatment often lose their fertility because chemotherapy and radiation can damage or kill their…

Registration is Now OPEN for the 2013 Oncofertility Conference, September 9 & 10

By: Oncofertility Admin - June 5, 2013

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, Education, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility, science

Tags: cancer, clinical research, Egg Banking, Embryo Banking, fertility, Fertility Preservation, oncofert13, Oncofertility, ovarian tissue cryopreservation

We have exciting news to share – registration for the 7th annual Oncofertility Conference: Cancer and Fertility Around the Globe is now open! Please visit the conference webpage to view the agenda, speaker biographies, submit an abstract (submissions closed) for the poster session, and to…

ASRM: Egg Freezing No Longer “Experimental” Technique

By: Oncofertility Admin - October 19, 2012

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General

Tags: ASRM, cancer, Egg Banking, Egg Freezing, Embryo Banking, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility

This weekend kicks off the 68th annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in San Diego, CA and runs through October 24th. ASRM was founded in 1944 by a small group of fertility experts in Chicago and since then, distinguished members of…

Fighting over frozen embryos: How to prevent disputes over cryopreserved reproductive materials

By: Oncofertility Admin - October 17, 2012

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, ethics, General, Oncofertility

Tags: Albany Medical College, cancer, ethics, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Oncofertility

I just returned from the annual Oncofertility Consortium Conference and one of the ethical topics that came up was the possibility of disputes over frozen reproductive materials. Before undergoing life-saving cancer treatment, people may opt to freeze gametes, gonadal tissue, or embryos in order to preserve their…

Educational Credits Offered Through Live Streaming of 2012 Oncofertility Conference

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 20, 2012

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, fertility, Fertility Preservation, Oncofertility

Tags: Conference

The 2012 Oncofertility Conference: Dialogues in Oncofertility begins next Thursday, September 27th in Chicago, IL. This 6th annual conference will include talks from experts across the globe on topics that range from factors influencing primate folliculogenesis to the psychosocial needs of young cancer patients. The…

Upcoming 2012 Oncofertility Conference in Chicago, IL

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 11, 2012

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, fertility, Fertility Preservation

Here at the Oncofertility Consortium, we are busy putting the final touches on the upcoming 2012 Oncofertility Conference: Dialogues in Oncofertility. At the conference, experts will discuss which cancer treatments are likely to damage later reproductive ability for men, women, and children and new fertility…

Symposium, Hands-On Workshops Promote Biotechnology Teaching

By: Oncofertility Admin - July 3, 2012

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Education, In the news

Tags: Conference, education, Northwestern University

-By Marilyn Sherman A series of workshops designed to promote the teaching of biotechnology in Chicago Public Schools kicked off with a June 19 symposium featuring pioneering Northwestern University cancer researcher Teresa K. Woodruff. The event also connected educators to the partners sponsoring the workshops — Northwestern’s…

2012 Oncofertility Conference Launch!!

By: Oncofertility Admin - April 17, 2012

Categories: Blog, Cancer, Conferences, Fertility Preservation

Tags: cancer, Conference, Fertility Preservation, HAWMC, oncofert12

The Oncofertility Consortium is pleased to announce the launch of the 2012 Oncofertility Conference webpage! For anyone who doesn’t know yet, the 6th annual Oncofertility Conference (#oncofert12 for you Twitter folks!) is being held in Chicago this fall, September 26th-28th. This year will prove to…

Oncofertility 101 and FertiPROTEKT: Fertility Preservation Across the Globe

By: Oncofertility Admin - March 19, 2012

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Research

Tags: FertiPROTEKT, Oncofertility 101

Students and scientist-organizers of the March 12th Oncofertility 101 course Last week, the Oncofertility Consortium hosted its second Oncofertility 101 course. In this laboratory-based course, organized by Francesca Duncan, PhD, and Jennifer Pahnke, MS, researchers learn the methods to study ovarian follicle growth in an…

Bright Pink and the Oncofertility Consortium Partner Up for Fertility Preservation

By: Oncofertility Admin - November 7, 2011

Categories: Advocate, Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility

Tags: Advocate, breast cancer, Bright Pink, cancer, cryopreservation, education, Egg Banking, Embryo Banking, Fertility Preservation, oophorectomy, ovarian cancer, Surrogacy, teresa k woodruff

Earlier this year, I blogged about a young woman and volunteer with Bright Pink, Kristin Nelson, who had preventative ovarian removal after she tested positive for BRCA1. BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are a class of genes otherwise known as tumor suppressors,

Cancer Rights Conference Series: October 21st in Ann Arbor, MI

By: Oncofertility Admin - October 5, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Oncofertility

Tags: Advocate, cancer, Cancer Rights Conference, CLRC, Conference, education, Fertility Preservation, insurance, legal, Oncofertility

This past year, the Oncofertility Consortium partnered up with the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) for their Cancer Rights Conference series, which just wrapped up the second installment in the three-part series in Washington D.C. Now, believe it or not, the final installment of the conference series…

2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference: High School Students Attend First Scientific Meeting

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 23, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Oncofertility Saturday Academy

Tags: Conference, Northwestern University, Oncofertility Saturday Academy

The 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference incorporated many new activities and attendees. One new special group of attendees were high school students from the Oncofertility Saturday Academy, the informal science outreach program run by the investigators of the Oncofertility Consortium around the country. A new scientists…

Penn Med Student Perspective on Oncofertility

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 19, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, In the news, Oncofertility, Research

Tags: clinical research, Conference, University of Pennsylvania

Last week, the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference: Priorities for Sustainable Oncofertility Research and Patient Care, was held here in Chicago. One of the more than 150 attendees was a University of Pennsylvania medical school student, Katie Dillon, who works with Clarisa Gracia, MD, MSCE on…

Tomorrow: Join Us Virtually for the 2011 Oncofertility Consortium Conference

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 11, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, General

Tags: Conference, Oncofertility

The past few weeks have been busy ones here at the Oncofertility Consortium. We have been in the midst of preparing for the fifth annual conference to investigate advances in cancer and fertility, which begins tomorrow morning (Monday, September 12th, 2011). It is hard to…

Upcoming Cancer Rights Conference: Washington DC

By: Oncofertility Admin - September 1, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, In the news, Meetings, Oncofertility

Tags: 2011 Cancer Legal Rights Conferences, Advocate, Cancer Legal Resource Center, Conference, education, Fertility Preservation, insurance, legal, Oncofertility

In June this past summer, the Oncofertility Consortium partnered up with the Cancer Legal Resource Center (CLRC) for a one-day conference event kicking off their 2011 Cancer Rights Conference series. It was a great success and provided many attendees with valuable information regarding cancer-related legal…

The Complex World of Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation Research

By: Oncofertility Admin - August 8, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, General, Meetings

Tags: cryopreservation

Mary Zelinski, PhD finishes her reports from the annual meeting of the Society for Cryobiology held from Corvallis, Oregon with a final blog about the keynote talk from Alison Ting, PhD. In this post, she relay’s Dr. Ting’s findings about advancing ovarian tissue cryopreservation techniques…

Fertility Preservation for Endangered Species

By: Oncofertility Admin - August 4, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Meetings

Tags: Conference, cryopreservation, Endangered

In this blog, Mary Zelinski, PhD continues her reports from the annual meeting of the Society for Cryobiology held in Corvallis, Oregon, July 24-27. In this post, she relay’s the findings of Dr. Pukazhenthi, on the importance of fertility preservation for endangered species. Read the first…

Steven Mullen Discusses History of Oocyte Cryopreservation

By: Oncofertility Admin - August 1, 2011

Categories: Blog, Conferences, Fertility Preservation, General, Meetings

Tags: cryopreservation, vitrification

Last week, Mary Zelinski reported to us about the annual meeting of the Society for Cryobiology held in Corvallis, Oregon, July 24-27. She continues her review of the meeting and the keynote presentation by Dr. Steven Mullen, below. Read the first blog post on Cryo2011.…