Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Perinatal Pathology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Angiogenesis Core Leader,
The Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Susan is perinatal pathologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with special interests in congenital heart disease and vascular biology.  She is a member of two NIH study sections and runs a basic science research laboratory focused on investigating the mechanisms underlying dysregulation of angiogenesis in development and disease.  In an effort to increase information derived from cases of stillbirth, she is developing a perinatal pathology network with regional hospitals.

Department of Pathology
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Perth
Australia

Adrian is one of two consultants in the Department of Pathology,  Princess Margaret and King Edward Memorial Hospitals, Perth, Western Australia. He has a special interest in stillbirths and performs roughly 50% of the department autopises of 430 fetal/perinatal post mortem examinations/year. He has been involved in the neonatal morbidity and mortality meetings at St Michael's Hospital, help set up and attend a fortnightly special perinatal loss clinic seeing around 100 patients a year, and participates on the statewide perinatal mortality review committee. His current research interests include stillbirths,   placental apoptosis and placental immunology/reaction to infection. He is a co-investigator on a large NHMRC grant with Vicky Flenady ( the PI) and others comparing stillbirths in Victoria, Queensland and Victoria, supervises a Ph D student and 2 research assistants investigating stillbirths, and a PhD student involved in placental development and apotosis.

Medical Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center on Birth Defects  and Developmental Disabilities
Altanta, USA

Wes currently serves as a Medical Officer with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA. He received my MD from the Medical University of South Carolina, and completed my MPH and Preventive Medicine/Public Health residency at Emory University. He is board eligible in preventive medicine/public health, and I currently oversee the development and implementation of population-based, active surveillance of stillbirths in the metro-Atlanta area.

Staff-Specialist Maternal and Fetal medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University Medical Center Groningen
The Netherlands

Jan is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist at the University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands. He is an assistant professor at the faculty of Medicine. His research projects/interests include the classification of perinatal mortality, (TULIP classification) and is in charge of the Perinatal audit for substandard care

ZOBAS-study: This study evaluates which tests are needed in case of intrauterine fetal death, cohort of 1000 stillbirths.  He is an international speaker or the topic and has published multiple articles.

Perinatal Researcher
Mater Centre for Clinical Studies
Mater Health Services
South Brisbane, Queensland
Australia

Vicki Flenady is a perinatal researcher at the Centre for Clinical Studies - a clinical research unit attached to a large maternity hospital (approximately 7,000 births each year) - the Mater Mother’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia ( http://www.mater.org.au ). Vicki is also the coordinator of the Perinatal Mortality Group of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) and the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Stillbirth Collaborative Group ( http://www.psanzpnmsig.org/ ) and chairs the regional perinatal mortality review committee. Vicki has a background in midwifery and neonatal intensive care nursing and has a Masters in Medical Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Newcastle Australia. In collaboration with PSANZ, Vicki has developed guidelines on stillbirth investigations and is currently undertaking a case controlled study on unexplained stillbirth and also collaborating in the International study on pregnancies with decreased fetal movements with the Femina Collaboration.

Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School
Harvard Vanguard Medial Associates
Wellesley MA
USA

Ruth is a obstetrician gynecologist with a special interest in specific causes of still birth and strategies for prevention. She received her Medical Doctorate at Queen's University Canada, and trained in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill. She obtained a Master's in the School of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

She is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and is the Chair of the Stillbirth Review Committee at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

She is currently collaborating on an International study on pregnancies with decreased fetal movement. 

Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston
USA

Frederik is an epidemiologist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, and in the 2005/06 season a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. He has been a part of ISA since it's very beginning - first as the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee and the first Conference in 2005, and currently as the Co-Chair of ISA.

He received his MD degree from the University of Bergen, a PhD in pediatrics at the  Dept. of Pediatric Research, on research related to SIDS and perinatal brain injuries, and a PhD in obstetrics at the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, on the epidemiology of unexplained stillbirths, both at Rikshospitalet University Clinic, University of Oslo.

His research interests include many fields of stillbirth research, but the main focus is currently unexplained stillbirths, classifications and causes of stillbirth, and pregnancies with reduced fetal movements.

West Midlands Perinatal Institute
Crystal Court, Aston Cross
Birmingham
United Kingdom

Jason is the director of the West Midlands Perinatal Institute based in Birmingham, UK and Professor in Maternal and Perinatal Health, University of Warwick. He is an obstetrician by background, with main interests in fetal growth and maturity, intrapartum surveillance and perinatal epidemiology. The Perinatal Institute (www.perinatal.nhs.uk) is a regional NHS organisation which aims to distil the evidence, understand the causes and develop pro-active strategies for the avoidance of adverse perinatal outcome.

Professor
Coordinator, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program
School of Nursing
Associate Director,
Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Louisville
USA

Dr. Marianne Hutti is Professor and Coordinator of the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Louisville, and Associate Director of the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville.  She also works as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner in a private gynecological practice with Donald B. Katz, MD.  Dr. Hutti has presented more than 200 programs on women’s health- related topics at regional, national and international meetings, and has published about 25 articles on women’s health topics.  She is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Nursing Research for a study in which she is Co-PI  on the topic of “Emotional Distress in a Pregnancy Subsequent to a Perinatal Loss”.  Dr. Hutti has been studying perinatal loss since the mid-1980’s when she completed her first study of factors that influence the intensity of grief after early pregnancy loss.  Aside from being an active researcher, Dr. Hutti is also a committed teacher, and has won several local, regional, and national teaching awards.

Coordinator Medical Research
Medical Research Centre
Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences
Jamshoro, Sindh
Pakistan

Abdul Hakeem Jokhio is currently coordinator of Medical research at Liaquat University, Jamshoro, Sindh Pakistan, trained in medical, management and public health sector development with research interests in perinatal and maternal healthcare. He has held senior positions at different levels in health department government of Sindh Pakistan. He has proven record of achievements in variety of healthcare projects design and implementation. He has proven ability in achieving cooperation between private and public sectors in Pakistan. Proven record of accomplishment in policy and planning dialogue with government officials, NGOs and donors at national level and successfully enacted the large and complex intervention in Pakistan. He has attended many international conferences and on panel for articles review with journals.

Chairman, Institute of Pathology
University of Milan
Italy

Since 1972, Full Professor of Pathology and Chairman of the Institute of Pathology University of Milano. Since 1980 Head of the First School of Specialization in Pathology, University of Milano. Coordinator of the International PhD Program in Pathological Anatomy, University of Milan, particularly focused on perinatal pathology and SIDS. Since 2000, Coordinator of the Master of Pathology of Stillbirth and SIDS, University of Milano. Since 1999, Chief of the "Reference Center of the Italian Republic's Lombardy Region for Pathological Study of Unexpected Fetal Death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) victims", Institute of Pathology, University of Milano, Lombardy Region. Since 2004, Chairman of the "Lino Rossi" Research Center for the study and prevention of the unexpected perinatal death (of the term fetus - stillbirth - and neonatal) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), University of Milan (Rectorial Decree n. 225878 of 23/04/04). Associated member of the Argentine Cardiology Society. Visiting Professor of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentine.The scientific activity (over 250 publications) is mainly addressed to the study of cardio-vascular pathology (atherosclerosis and cardiac conduction system) and to the investigation of the neuropathology of Stillbirth and SIDS. Recipient of the Gold Medal Award of the City Hall, Milano 1988.

Clinical Genetic Center
Madison WI
USA

Richard Pauli is a Senior Professor of Pediatrics  and Medical Genetics  and is the Division Chief in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism in Madison Wisconsin. He has had a special interest in the development of a community protocol for the evaluation of stillborns and counselling their families. His other interests inherited pediatric conditions such as achondroplasia and as well as the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. He is an international speaker, and has many published papers.

Department of Caring sciences and public Health
Mälardalens University
Västerås
Sweden

Ingela is a midwife and associated professor in reproductive and perinatal care, she is the author of the book “When a meeting is also farewell”, Books for Midwives press 1999.

In 1998 she wrote a thesis on a nation-wide follow-up of all women who gave birth to a stillborn baby in Sweden in 1991 (314 stillbirths and 322 controls are included in the study). She had her own experiences of loosing a child, her firstborn daughter was stillborn in 1981. Although her focus on how  we best care for mothers and fathers with stillborn children my interests also cover parental education and women´s experiences of delivery.

Professor,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Rikshospitalet University Hospital,
Norway .