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Hall 8 08h00 09h30 Preventing non
communicable
disease by
ensuring a
healthy start in
life
C3
Collaborating
for Health
90
minutes

Kindgom
Panel discussion Luis Cabero-Roura Spain
Panel discussion Anil Kapur Denmark
Concluding remarks Christine Hancock
United
Kingdom
XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 8 OCTOBER
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sterilization
Habile
Sebitloane
South Africa
Women with disabilities
and the new ethical
guidelines on sterilization
Eszter Kismodi
Switzerland
Hall 9B 08h00 09h30 Management of
Infertility
FIGO 90
minutes
Symposiu
m
Reproductive
Medicine
Egbert te Velde
Netherlan
ds
Infertility with respect to
PCOS
Duru Shah
India
Duru Shah India
Management of female
infertility
Klaus Diedrich
Germany
Is there a relation

Sala
Raffaella
Alibrandi
Hall 10
(F+G)
08h00 09h30 The value of
diagnostic
Colposcopy in
2012
International
Federation of
Cervical
Pathology
and
Colposcopy
90
minutes
Symposiu
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Gynaecological
Oncology
Silvio Tatti
Argentina
Introduction and update
of New Nomenclature
Silvio Tatti Argentina
The utility of colposcopy
in the management of
women with abnormal
screening tests

90
minutes
Symposiu
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Low Resource
Countries
Marleen Temmerm
an
Belgium The Partnership and its
role in achieving MDGs 4
and 5
Carole Presern
Switzerland
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better health care for
mother and child
Flavia Bustreo
Switzerland
Room
Domizia/E
uphemia
(D+E) Hall
10
08h00 09h30 Educational
Program on
Pelvic Floor
Medicine and
Reconstructive
Surgery
FIGO Working
Group
90
minutes
Symposiu
m
Urogynaecology Morton Stencheve
r
United
States
Presentation of the FIGO
Working Group
Oscar Contreras Ortiz
Argentina
Results of survey of

Recommendations of
Subgroup 1 after Interim
Meeting – Rome January
2012
Gabriele Falconi
Italy
Summing up and
discussion
Stefano Salvatore
Italy
Summing up and
discussion
Mohamed Hefni
United
Kingdom
Room
Iustina (I)
Hall 10
08h00 09h30 ISGE Best
Videos on
Hysteroscopy
ISGE 90
minutes
Symposiu
m
Surgery Jack Sciarra
United
States
Office Hysteroscopy Stefano
Bettocchi

Symposiu
m
National and
International
Societies
Giovanni Scambia
Italy Ovarian Borderline
Tumor: How far can we
go with a conservative
strategy?
Pierandrea
De Iaco Italy
Paolo Scollo
Italy Surgical staging in non
epithelial ovarian tumors,
is it really necessary?
Giuseppe
Trojano Italy
Early stage ovarian
cancer: open,
laparoscopic or robotic?
Enrico
Vizza Italy
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International
Societies
Primary debulking Giovanni
Aletti Italy
Neoadjuvant
chemotherapy
Stefano Greggi Italy
Room
Aurelia
(A) Hall
10
08h00 09h30 Lebanese
Society Session
Lebanese
Society of O&G
(in collaboration
with CCCC)
90
minutes
Symposiu
m
National and
International
Societies
Muhieddine
Seoud Lebanon
RTIs and psycho-
protection: A new
paradigm in women’s
health care

Abdallah
Adra Lebanon
Antenatal corticosteroids:
A leap into the late
preterm?
Fadi
Mirza Lebanon
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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy

Kohinoor
Begum
Bangladesh
Harshalal R. Senevirat
ne
Sri Lanka Panel Discussion - India
(FOGSI)
P. K. Shah India
Moderators:
Alokendu
Chatterji
India Panel Discussion - Nepal
(NESOG)
Ashma
Rana
Nepal
Rubina Sohail
Pakistan Panel Discussion -
Pakistan (SOGP)
Lubna
Hassan
Pakistan
Narendra
Malhotra
India Panel Discussion - Sri
Lanka (SLCOG)
Mangala Dissanayake Sri Lanka
Room
Niside (N)
Hall 10

a randomized controlled
trial
Pharuhas Chanprapaph Thailand
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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Antenatal Care
and Diagnosis
Obstetric Outcome in

Management of
threatened Preterm
Labor Based on
Sonographic
Measurements of the
Cervical Length
Homeira Vafaei Iran
Antenatal Care
and Diagnosis
Second trimester
prediction of small for
gestational age and
intrauterine growth
restriction
Ambrogio P Londero Italy
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Health Care
Policy
Folic Acid Intake and
Neural Tube Defects
(NTDs) in a Cohort of
Egyptian Mothers
Mona Elhusseini Egypt
Health Care
Policy
Influenza A (H1 N1) MF59-
adjuvanted vaccine and
adverse perinatal
outcomes. A large cross
sectional multicenter
study
Ariel Karolinski Argentina
Health Care
Policy
US abortion
determinants: an
ecological perspective
Renzo Puccetti Italy
Health Care
Policy
Clinical audits to reduce
cesarean sections in
hospital setting in Iran.
Ambitious or obtainable
goal?
Soheila Mohammadi Sweden

“The recognition and
initial management of
Ovarian Cancer”
James Duncan United
Kingdom
Room
Livia (L)
Hall 10
08h00 09h30 FC3 90
minutes
Free
Communi
cation
Session
Assisted
Reproduction
Basil Tarlatzis
Greece
ICSI Outcome after
Assessment of Sperm
DNA Integrity for
Diagnosis of Fertility
Potential
Aziza Mansour Egypt
Assisted
Reproduction
Role of Antimullerian
hormone and follicel
stimulating hormone
receptors genotypes in

Presenter Last
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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Assisted
Reproduction
A Case for Vaginal
Insemination as a Safer
Method of Conception in
HIV Discordant Couples
(female positive, male
negative) Desiring
Conception in Kisumu,
Kenya
Okeoma Mmeje United States
Assisted
Reproduction
Correlation of Body Mass
Index with ovarian
reserve in infertile
women undergoing IVF in
a developing country
Anupama Bahadur India
Assisted
Reproduction
Study Of Sub-
Endometrial Blood Flow

Presenter
Country
XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Assisted
Reproduction
Management of women
affected by
endometriosis
undergoing assisted
reproduction
technologies
Jessica Melluso Italy
Assisted
Reproduction
Parameters predicting
pregnancy and fetal
outcome in IVF/ ICSI
patients: is it possible?
Andreea Enache Romania
Assisted
Reproduction
A clinical audit of saline
infusion sonography in an
assissted conception unit
Gbolahan Obajimi Nigeria
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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Gyne-oncology Aromatase inhibitor
'Letrozole' versus
progestin 'norethisterone'
in women with simple
endometrial hyperplasia
without atypia; a
prospective cohort trial
Maged Elshamy Egypt
Gyne-oncology New FIGO staging
Provides Better Practical
Guides: A Comparison of
New and Old Staging
system and
clinicohistopathological
findings in 185 cases of

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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Gyne-oncology Composite Scoring
System to detect early
invasive or premalignant
vulval lesions
Shakun Tyagi India
Gyne-oncology
Review of management in
women with abnormal
smears referred to
colposcopy less than 25
years
Pushpakala
Ajaya
Maharajan United
Kingdom
Gyne-oncology Prevalence of human
papillomavirus (HPV) and
genotype distribution in
Thai female population:
preliminary report of
cervical cancer screening
project 2011 at

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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
High Risk
Pregnancy
Influence of smoking and
snuff cessation on risk of
Small-for-Gestational-Age
Births

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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
High Risk
Pregnancy
Etiological role of insulin-
like growth factor 1 (IGF-
1); insulin-like growth
factor 2 (IGF-2) and

Maysoon Jabir Iraq
Maternal
Mortality and
Morbidity
QUARITE (quality of care,
risk management and
technology in obstetrics):
a cluster-randomised trial
of a multifaceted
intervention to improve
emergency obstetric care
in Senegal and Mali
Alexandre Dumont France
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Anne-Sophie Ducloy-
Bouthors
France
Maternal
Mortality and
Morbidity
External aortic
compression device,
manual aortic
compression & El Minya
Air Inflated Balloon: Are
too simple, too cheap
and saving too many lives
in law resource settings
Saad El Gelany Egypt
Maternal
Mortality and
Morbidity
Prevalence and Predictors
of Giving Birth in Health
Facilities in Bugesera
District, Rwanda
Stephen Rulisa Rwanda
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Case Management Of
Eclampsia In Nigeria’s
Teaching Hospitals
Rosemary Ogu Nigeria
Exhibition
Hall 7
09h30 09h55 Tea/coffee break 25
minutes
Hall 8 09h55 11h25 FIGO President's
Session:
Professional
Organisations
and MDGs
90
minutes
Plenary Joanna Cain United
States
What is the role and
importance of
professional
organisations in achieving
the health-related
Millennium Development
Goals?
What are the challenges?
How can the role of
professional
organisations be
promoted in this respect?
Panel discussion:

Country
XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Frances
Day-Stirk
United
Kingdom
Paul
De Lay
Switzerland
Paul
Howell
United
Kingdom
Babatunde
Osotimehin
Nigeria
Gamal
Serour
Egypt
Jill
Sheffield
United States
Luis
Sambo
Switzerland
Hall 8
11h30
12h30

Diana Mansour United
Kingdom
What makes Mirena one
of the most popular
contraceptive methods?
Diana Mansour United
Kingdom
Is the IUS also
appropriate for
nulliparous women?
Kirsten Black Australia
Italian experience with
Mirena
Manuela Farris Italy
Q&A and Closing Remarks Diana Mansour United
Kingdom
Hall 9B 14h15 15h15 E2V/DNG and
Additional
Benefits: A
Comprehensive
Concept in
Hormonal
Contraception
Bayer
Healthcare
60
minutes
Industry-
sponsored
Symposiu

Rosella Nappi Italy
Investigating OC-
associated FSD: results
from the STABLE study
Alessandra Graziottin Italy
Recognising and Relieving
the Burden of HMB
Johannes Bitzer Switzerland
Q&A and Closing Remarks Ian Fraser Australia
Sala
Raffaella
Alibrandi
Hall 10
(F+G)
12h30 13h30 Ulipristal
Acetate: New
SPRM
Therapeutics for
Uterine Fibroids
Gedeon Richter 60
minutes
Industry-
sponsored
Symposiu
m
David H Barlow United
Kingdom
From Development to
Clinical Use: an Overview
of SPRMs

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7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
A Randomised Placebo-
controlled Trial Assessing
the Putative Benefit of a
Progestin Course
Following Ulipristal
Acetate Treatment:
PEARL III Clinical Study
Bart CJM Fauser Netherlands
Interactive Question &
Answer Session
David H Barlow United
Kingdom
Andrea R Genazzani Italy
Room
Baebiana
(B) Hall 10
12h30 13h30
Iron matters -
convenient and
effective
treatment for
women’s health
Vifor Pharma 60

sponsored
Symposiu
m
Christopher
W.
Redman United
Kingdom
Current definition of pre-
eclampsia – limitations
and uncertainty
Christopher
W.
Redman United
Kingdom
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minutes
Symposiu
m
Maternal Fetal
Medicine
Carole Presern Switzerlan
d
Preterm Baby Joy Lawn
South Africa
José Belizán Argentina
Reducing preterm birth:
Care between before and
between pregnancies
Zulfiqar Bhutta
Pakistan
Reducing preterm birth.
Care during pregnancy
Fernado Althabe
Uruguay
Preterm Births: Everyone
has a role to play
Christopher Howson
United States
Panel of representatives
from some of the
organizations involved in
Born Too Soon including
FIGO, IPA, WHO,
PMNCH and a parent
group

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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Moving medical abortion
from the private to the
public sector in South
Africa
Jaymala
Mukesh
Devjee
South Africa
Introducing medical
abortion in Zambia:
Results of an operations
research project
Rueben Mbewe

Berek United States
FIGO 2009 vulvar cancer
staging - has it made a
difference?
Neville
Hacker Australia
Room
Baebiana
(B) Hall
10
13h45 15h15 Task sharing:
strengthening
workforce
capacity for
community based
family planning
and reproductive
health services
IPPF 90
minutes
Symposiu
m
Low Resource
Countries
Ilka Rondinelli United
Kingdom
Community-based access
to injectable
contraception (CBA2I)
toolkit development and

workers (CHWs) to
provide injectables at a
global level
Jeff Spieler
United States
Community based access
to injectable
contraception advocacy
and implementation
following the pilot in
Kenya
Baker Ndugga
Maggwa
United States
Community based access
to injectable
contraception service
provision from an
implementing agencies
perspective
Negash Seifu
Ethiopia
2012 WHO Task Sharing
Guidelines
Leo Bryant
United
Kingdom
RoomDo
mizia/Eup
hemia

research issues (e.g. data
definitions)
Mario Merialdi
Switzerland
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XX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics
7-12 October 2012, Rome, Italy
PROGRAMME
Who needs to collaborate
to do this research;

of the non-deceptive and
honest cosmetic-plastic
gynecological field
Troy
Hailparn
United States
New classifications and
protocols for cosmetic
gynecology and combine
general cosmetic with
cosmetic gynecologic
procedures
Danilo
Dodero
Italy
Labia minora with or
without clitoral
hoodoplasty and labia
majora labioplasty: New
surgical interventions
Mark
Scheinberg
United States
Vaginal rejuvenation new
techniques and G-
Spotplasty
Adam
Ostrzenski
United States
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