From Lab to Labor: Advancing Diabetes Pregnancy Care Agenda

November 6-7, 2025 - Fairfax, Virginia

Day 1 – November 8, 2025

7:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors

7:30 AM - Welcome

Speaker: Scott Sullivan, MD & Sarah Crimmins, DO

7:40 AM - Lifetime Achievement Awards Presented

8:00 AM - Keynote Address: Mitigating Diabetes Complications: Bench to Bedside Paradigm         

Speaker: E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD                

Session I: Diabetes in Pregnancy: Scripting Intergenerational Future Health

Moderator/Speaker:  Jane Khoury, PhD & Christine Wey Hockett, PhD

8:35 AM - Through the Lens of Time: Unraveling the Long-Term Impact of Maternal IDDM on the Offspring

Speaker: Jane Khoury, PhD

8:55 AM - Developmental Origins of Metabolic Dysfunction: Long-Term Consequences of Intrauterine Exposure to Maternal Diabetes

Speaker: Katherine Bowers, PhD

9:15 AM - Mapping Temporal Trends in Blood Glucose Levels and Insulin Requirements During the IDDM Pregnancy: An Advanced Statistical Approach to Evaluate Intrauterine Programming Effects

Speaker:  Ashlyn Garter, PhD

9:35 AM - Fetal Renal Programming in Diabetic Pregnancies: Tracking Kidney Outcomes from Womb to Adulthood

Speaker: Shelley Ehrlich, MD

9:55 AM - Hearts at Risk: Long-Term Cardiovascular Consequences of Fetal Exposure to Maternal Diabetes

Speaker: Elaine M. Urbina, MD, MS

10:15 AM - Q&A

10:30 AM - Break with Exhibitors (15 min. break)

Session II: Balancing Tradition and Innovation in GDM and Type 2 Management in Pregnancy

10:45 AM - Medications in Management: Balancing Safety, Efficacy, and Patient Convenience in GDM and Type 2 DM

Speaker: Sarah Crimmins, DO

11:05 AM - Insulin as the Gold Standard: Optimizing Safety and Efficacy in GDM and Type 2 Diabetes Management

Speaker: Maisa Feghali, MD

11:25 AM - Oral Hypoglycemics: A Modern Approach to Balancing Efficacy and Patient Convenience in GDM and Type 2 Diabetes Treatment

Speaker:  Anna Palatnik, MD

11:45 AM - Q&A

12:00 PM - Lunch with Exhibitors and “Ask the Expert”

Session III: Beyond the Glucose Curve: The Genetic Story of Diabetic Pregnancies

1:00 PM - Topic: Fetal Precision Medicine in Diabetic Pregnancies: Utilizing Genome Sequencing for in Utero Health Assessment

Speaker: Ron Wapner, MD

1:25 PM - From Genes to Gestation: Latest Discoveries in Diabetes and Pregnancy

Speaker: Huda Al-Kouatly, MD

1:50 PM - Q&A

Session IV: Diabetes and the Placenta: From Microscope to Maternal Health

Moderator/Speaker: Leslie Myatt, PhD and Yoel Sadovsky, MD

2:00 PM - Sexual Dimorphism in Placental Function with Maternal Obesity and GDM

Speaker: Leslie Myatt, PhD

2:25 PM - Placental O-GlcNAc Transferase: The X Factor in Gestational Diabetes

Speaker: Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD

2:50 PM - Small Cargo Within Nano-packages for Pregnancy Health

Speaker: Yoel Sadovsky, MD

3:00 PM - Q&A

3:15 PM - Break with Exhibitors

Session V: Breakout Sessions

Breakout A: Smart Diabetes Care: AI, Novel Therapies and Beyond

Moderator/Speaker: Barak Rosenn, MD and Ellen Murrin, MD

3:45 PM - From Steel Magnolias to Smart Tech: Revolutionizing Diabetes Care in Pregnancy

Speaker: Karl Seif, MD

4:05 PM - CGM and GDM and T2DM

Speaker: Rana Malek, MD

4:25 PM - Conversation with AI: Generative Technology as Your Diabetes Companion

Speaker: Amos Grunebaum, MD

4:45 PM - Anytime, Anywhere MFM: Transforming Diabetic Pregnancy Care Through Telemedicine

Speaker: Sina Haeri, MD

5:05 PM - Q&A

Breakout B: Cutting-Edge Imaging in the Gravida: A Visual Journey

Moderator/Speaker: Alfred Z. Abuhamad and Jacques Abramowicz

3:45 PM - Universal Early Cardiac Screening in Diabetic Pregnancy: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Speaker: Alfred Abuhamad, MD

4:05 PM - Sonographic Strategies to Optimize the Detection of Fetal Brain Anomalies

Speaker: Siegfried Rotmensch, MD

4:25 PM - Ultrasound Insights: A Window into Diabetic Pregnancy Complications

Speaker: Jacques Abramowicz, MD

4:45 PM - Artificial Intelligence in Perinatal Diagnosis and Management of Congenital Heart Disease

Speaker: Shifa Turan, MD

5:05 PM - Q&A

5:15 PM - Reception Exhibitors and Abstract Poster Presentations

Day 2 – November 7, 2025

7:30 AM - Registration & Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:00 AM - Welcome to Day Two

8:05 AM - Keynote Address: NIDDK Diabetes in Pregnancy: Aligning Investigator Goals with Organizational Priorities

Speaker: Griffin Rodgers, MD

Session VI:  Diabetes and Pregnancy: NIH Priorities and Funding Opportunities

8:40 AM - Moderator/Speakers: E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD and Menachem Miodovnik, MD

8:50 AM - Griffin P Rodgers, MD

9:15 AM - Janine Austin Clayton, MD

9:40 AM  - Denise Bonds, MD

10:05 AM - Q&A

10:20 AM - Break with Exhibitors

Session VII:  Beyond Carb Counting: Unlocking Optimal Nutrition in Diabetic Pregnancy

10:30 AM - Moderator/Speakers: Andrew Bremer, MD and Patrick Catalano, MD

10:35 AM - Redefining Diabetes Nutrition in Pregnancy: Beyond the 2000-Calorie Myth

Speaker: Patrick Catalano, MD

10:45 AM - Optimizing Nutrition for Mom and Baby: Implications for the Pregnancy and Beyond 

Speaker: Andrew Bremer, MD

10:55 AM - Eating for Two with Diabetes in Pregnancy: Modern Dietary Strategies- New Guidelines for Optimal Health

Speaker: Amy Valent, DO

11:15 AM - From Restriction to Balance: Challenging Traditional Diets for Diabetes in Pregnancy Re-examining Carbohydrate Requirements

Speaker: Terry Hernandez, PhD

11:35 AM - Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Risk for Gestational Diabetes

Speaker: Jagteshwar Grewal, PhD

11:55 AM - Nourishing the Next Generation: Maternal Diabetes and its Impact on Breastfeeding – Optimal Weaning Time – Lessons from Cross-Species Studies

Speaker: Francis Mimouni, MD

12:15 PM - Q&A

12:30 PM - Lunch with Exhibitors

Session VIII: Shaping Tomorrow's Care: Early Career Investigators at the Frontier of Diabetes in Pregnancy Research

Moderators/Speakers: Monika Longo, MD and Jean Lawrence, ScD, MPH

1:25 PM - ETCHED Cohort: Maternal/Fetal Epigenetics Diabetes and Obesity

Speaker: Sourav Roy Choudhury, PhD

1:45 PM - Islet Cell Dynamics in Gestational Diabetes: From Pregnancy to Postpartum

Speaker: Aoife Maria Egan, MD, PhD

2:05 PM - Maternal Hyperglycemia and Cardiac Development: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Insights

Speaker: Javier Contreras

2:25 PM - Intensive Glycemic Targets in Overweight and Obese Women with Pregestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Multicenter Randomized Trial

Speaker: Ashley Battarbee, MD

2:45 PM - Q&A

3:00 PM - Break

Session IX: Breakout Sessions

Breakout A: Simulation (Pre-registration is Required)

Moderator/Speakers: Shad Derring and Antonio Saad, MD

Breakout B: Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes

3:15 PM - Moderator/Speaker: Christine Field, MD

3:30 PM - Cultural Awareness and Grounded Diabetes Care for Latina Individuals     

Speaker: Sandy Ramos, MD

3:50 PM - Group Prenatal Care in Minoritized Individual Living with Diabetes

Speaker: Ebony B. Carter, MD

4:10 PM - Pregnancy Inflammation and Diabetes: Insights from ETCHED Study

Speaker: Madhumita Sinha, PhD

4:30 PM - Upstream Interventions: Preventing T2DM Disparities After GDM

Speaker: Teresa Janevic, PhD

4:50 PM - Closing Remarks

Speakers: Scott Sullivan, MD and Antonio Saad, MD