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Ninth Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture On Maternal and Child Health in the Americas

Prevention of Birth Defects and Prematurity: Myths and Facts
September 19, 2007 (10:00 a.m)

Sponsor/Co-Sponsor(s): Prevention Research and International Programs (PRIP), Office of the Director, NICHD; Fogarty International Center, NIH; The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies (College of Public Health, Department of Pediatrics, and the University of South Florida in partnership with the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa)

Location: Lawton Chiles International House (formerly “The Stone House”), 16 Center Drive, NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, Maryland

Purpose: Enrique Curt Gadow, M.D., Ph.D., Head of the Department of Research and Chief of Genetic Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Medical Education and Clinical Research, CEMIC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, will speak on Prevention of Birth Defects and Prematurity: Myths and Facts.

A light lunch will follow the lecture.

For more information:
Speaker Bio

Contact: Sondra Sheriff, PRIP, OD, NICHD, by September 12, 2007
Tel: (301) 435-7565
E-mail: sheriffs2@mail.nih.gov