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A report of this meeting has been published as a part of a booklet which can be downloaded here: Download conference report
The booklet is part of a publication from the Science/AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Ten Critical Topics in Reproductive Medicine, published December 2013 and supported by SSIF. To go to the full publication click here |
FAQs asked at the Top Ten event, together with answers from experts present are now available to download as a pdf. Click here to see more |
Click here to watch an interview with Carlos Simón on his hopes for the Top Ten event
The unique idea behind SSIF’s Top Ten conference is to bring together the authors of ten of the top research papers in reproductive medicine in recent years and engage them with leading clinicians. We know research in reproductive medicine has made huge strides, but what have been the real ground-breaking papers, challenging traditional techniques and treatment and offering new opportunities to improve care to patients? SSIF believes that by facilitating discussion around these Top Ten papers we can help stimulate real practical advances for clinicians and researchers alike.
Selecting the Top Ten was no easy task with so much valuable research to choose from. In summer 2012, SSIF invited leading clinicians to join an expert panel. This panel selected from an initial 50 papers listed by a specialist independent bibliographer, with 25 related to basic research and 25 to clinical ‘in-field’ research, some of them deliberately chosen as ‘controversial’ papers. The 50 papers were selected by the number of downloads in the past two years and the number of citations in the past ten years. The expert panel, composed of eight experts in the field of reproductive medicine, then reduced the 50 to 10 (5 basic and 5 clinical papers).
The members of the expert panel that chose the final Top Ten papers are:
Sudhansu K. Dey, Director, Reproductive Sciences, USA
Johannes L.H. Evers, Editor in Chief - Human Reproduction, the Netherlands
Robert Fischer, SSIF Scientific Committee member and medical director, Hamburg Centre, Hamburg, Germany
Susan Fisher, Professor Director, Translational Research in Perinatal Biology and Medicine – MFM Division, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Randy Levinson, Senior Editor - Nature Medicine, USA
Martin M. Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Antonio Pellicer, Co-Editor in Chief - Fertility and Sterility, Spain
Carlos Simón, Scientific Director, Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Valencia, Spain
The ‘Top Ten’ authors of the most influential basic and clinical research in reproductive medicine in recent years, as chosen by our panel of international experts, will in turn present their findings. Each presentation will then be reviewed by an expert ‘challenger’ who will raise points about the speaker’s findings before opening up the session to general debate with the audience. SSIF Reproductive Medicine believes that this meeting will inspire an exciting new educational approach – updating and involving participants in the very latest research through open dialogue. We have designed the format to be similar to an expert focus meeting, targeted at a limited number of key opinion-forming clinicians and researchers working in the specialist field of reproductive medicine.
The aim of The Top Ten in Reproductive Medicine, a new high quality educational platform from SSIF, is to encourage dynamic communication between researchers (basic and clinical) and physicians, to help spread and put into practice the most up to date scientific knowledge whilst increasing awareness of how the best papers are prepared and published worldwide.
During the meeting, the authors of the ten most relevant basic and clinical papers over the recent years in reproductive medicine will be presenting and discussing their work with the audience, and inviting participants to challenge their findings. Bringing together authors of the most relevant published papers in reproductive medicine and the key opinion formers of the clinical community is a great opportunity for real-time sharing of scientific knowledge, helping to drive improvement in patient quality of life.
Attending the meeting, the participants will:
The program is in a similar format to an expert focus meeting and is targeted at a limited number of key opinion forming clinicians and researchers working in the specialist field of reproductive medicine. It is also relevant for PHD students and residents seeking to embrace innovative educational pathways.
For more information please download the brochure
An application has been made to the EACCME® for CME accreditation of the Serono Symposia International Foundation “The top ten in reproductive medicine: debating breakthrough basic and clinical papers with their authors” (September 20-21, 2013 - Florence, Italy)
This program “The top ten in reproductive medicine: debating breakthrough basic and clinical papers with their authors” (September 20-21, 2013 - Florence, Italy) will be submitted for CME accreditation from the Italian Ministry of Health.