That's a wrap for #ISPD2024! Thank you for joining us this week, either in Boston or online from your home country. Please mark your calendars for #ISPD2025 in Cape Town, South Africa, 30 October - 2 November 2025!

Happy hump day! Hope you can join for a brilliant day of ‘Healthcare Leadership for Everyday Leaders’- October 26. Great topics & speakers. Whether or not you’ve read Dinesh Palipana’s book, ‘Stronger’, you won’t want to miss this incredible story! One click to register! 👇

People undertaking #IVF who choose #genetic testing of embryos (for inherited conditions) have a better chance of falling pregnant than those going through other IVF procedures, a new #MCRI-led study finds. | #CysticFibrosis Lisa Hui Victorian Clinical Genetics Services (VCGS) 👉 bit.ly/4eGEPgy

Great to connect with the mito community this week to talk about preparing for pregnancy and antenatal care for people with mitochondrial disease - thanks to Mito Foundation for hosting! #mitochondrialdisease #pregnancy youtu.be/Bi8KRd2qnjw?si… via YouTube

So excited to announce the date for our next Australian Congenital CMV symposium - 2nd June 2025 - and our international guest speaker, maternal fetal medicine specialist Prof David Baud from Lausanne University, Switzerland! ISPD

Secure your ticket now for GMU 2025, taking place 30th–31st May at the Park Hyatt, Melbourne (& earn 11 CPD Points!). One of our highly anticipated sessions features Professor Linda Sweet, who will present: “Supporting and Caring for Pregnant Women Living in Larger Bodies”

Our food and built environment matters to mothers and babies! We have to stop focussing only on individual health behaviours and improve community access to healthy food, walkable streets and green spaces. Great work by Melvin Marzan ! MercyPerinatal Daniel Rolnik Sue Walker

Where you live matters. New University of Melbourne research analysed over 31,000 Melbourne births and found suburb-level factors like walkability and food access impact rates of gestational diabetes and maternal overweight. More → unimelb.me/4lfni2X

Insights and Experiences From the ‘Gatekeepers’: A Qualitative Study Exploring Clinician Perspectives on Providing Publicly Funded Prenatal Exome Sequencing - Dayman - Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology - Wiley Online Library obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

NIPT is a common choice for prenatal screening, but not all NIPT are the same! A quick primer here for those that want a refresher on prenatal screening in 2025 Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) MercyPerinatal #nipt RANZCOG - O&G UniMelb MDHS RACGP Human Genetics Society of Australasia

Here’s a sparkle for the 1st of May !! We shared with you at Twilight last week our exciting new initiative: the Global Research Obstetric Update (GROU). GROU will be held immediately before GOU on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th November at Park Hyatt. Coming for GOU? Stay for

📢 Registration & Abstract Submission is NOW OPEN! ✒️Join #CNAPS 2025 to connect, learn and make an impact! 🎯 Act Now! 🔗 Visit cnaps2025.org to register and submit your abstracts today!

Are you a GP working in antenatal care in Australia? Do you routinely screen your pregnant patients for cytomegalovirus in early pregnancy? Tell us what you think about this emerging practice and help inform future guidelines in antenatal care. redcap.unimelb.edu.au/surveys/?s=WLM…

Are you a GP working in antenatal care in Australia? Do you routinely screen your pregnant patients for cytomegalovirus in early pregnancy? Tell us what you think about this emerging practice and help inform future guidelines in antenatal care. redcap.unimelb.edu.au/surveys/?s

🔮 ECR Abstracts for the Australian Reproduction Update are due Midnight Friday the 30th of May!! 🔮 The sorting hat is on the job! We are offering the opportunity for Early Career Researchers to submit abstracts and present on August 18th and 19th at the Woodward Conference

Did you miss out on one of the converted spots at the Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CCMV) Symposium? As per usual, Mercy Perinatal has you covered! Wednesday June 4th, 6:00pm AEST, we are thrilled to be presenting Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CCMV) @ Twilight. We are welcoming 3

if you are a person with lived experience of congenital CMV, a clinician, researcher, or policy maker, have your say on research priorities for CCMV in Australia here: cerebralpalsy.org.au/our-research/r…

Proud to be supervising Cecilia in her PhD journey to map prenatal screening uptake across different socioeconomic groups in Australia mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-event…