Harvard Fifty-Ninth Annual Update Obstetrics and Gynecology 2023

This Obstetrics and Gynecology conference will provide a comprehensive update on the latest developments and treatments in the field of women’s reproductive health. The conference covers a wide range of topics, including obstetrics, infertility, adolescent gynecology, menopause management, gynecologic oncology, and high-risk patients. The conference will be held online, using live streaming and other remote learning technologies, and will be presented by Harvard Medical School’s leading faculty and master clinicians. Attendees will be able to customize their learning experience according to their specific areas of interest, and will receive practical updates and practice recommendations that they can immediately incorporate into their daily practice to improve patient care and outcomes.

UPDATES and STATE-OF-THE-ART PRACTICES

Education is comprehensive, designed to ensure attendees are current with 2023 updates and state-of-the-art practices. Coverage includes:

• Managing patients with prior preterm birth, stillbirth, or preeclampsia
• Multifetal pregnancies: improving outcomes
• NIPT
• Gynecologic pelvic pain
• The challenging hysterectomy
• Infertility workup updates
• Menopause management in 2023
• Cervical cancer prevention: primary HPV testing
• Surgical management of endometriosis
• Placenta accreta syndrome
• Cervical insufficiency
• The fallopian tube and “ovarian” cancer
• Vulvar lesions: biopsy, treat, or refer?
• COVID-19: variants, vaccines, and pregnancy outcomes
• Ovulation induction challenges
• IVF updates
• New avenues for fetal therapy
• Obesity, diabetes, and pregnancy
• Interconception care
• Overactive bladder, stress urinary incontinence and fecal incontinence
• Endometrial and cervical cancer management
• Fetal anomaly in twins
• Osteoporosis treatment
• Reversible contraceptives: where we are now
• Gestational trophoblastic disease
• Management of the adnexal mass
• Innovations in labor induction
• Improving outcomes after c-section
• Breakthroughs in gynecologic oncology
• Using the correct instruments in hysteroscopy
• Recurrent pregnancy loss: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
• Management of PCOS, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis
• Postpartum hypertension
• MIGS for pelvic organ prolapse
• Complex urogynecologic cases
• Enhanced recovery after gynecologic surgery
• Pediatric and adolescent gynecologic cases
• Treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding
• Fetal anatomy in the first trimester
• Expanding fetal phenotypes and deep sequencing
• Urogynecology for the general OB/GYN
• Health equity in obstetrics and gynecologic care
• Abortion in the post-Roe landscape

RESULTS-DRIVEN EDUCATION

The lectures, interactive discussions, and clinical skills-development sessions are presented by clinical leaders in their respective subspecialties.

Participants can rely on this program for:

• Important updates that optimize the reproductive health of women across their lifespan
• State-of-the-art approaches to clinical challenges
• Guidance to navigate diagnostic options
• Best practices to optimize treatment plans
• Drug and device updates
• Strategies for high-risk patients
• Education on imaging advances and their implications for clinical practice
• New therapy protocols
• Guidance for when to treat and when to refer
• Updates on COVID-19 and clinical care

Customize Your Learning Experience

The core curriculum is available as three separate 2-day sections, each covering a different area of obstetric and gynecologic practice:

Clinical Obstetrics: 
March 10–11, 2023

Coverage includes:

• COVID-19 updates
• Preterm delivery
• Twins, placenta accreta, and other high-risk pregnancies
• Labor planning, induction, and complex delivery issues
• Managing weight gain in pregnancy
• Prenatal genetic screening and diagnosis
• Maternal hypertension
• Fetal growth restriction and abnormal development
• Depression during and after pregnancy: how to detect and resources for management
• Optimizing the next pregnancy after preterm delivery, hypertension, cervical insufficiency, and stillbirth
• Postpartum care and maternal health

Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Urogynecology, and Gynecologic Oncology:
March 12–13, 2023

Coverage includes:

• Choosing the correct instruments in hysteroscopy
• The challenging hysterectomy
• Gynecologic pelvic pain: etiologies, diagnosis, algorithms for referral and treatment
• Surgical management of endometriosis
• Diagnosis of overactive bladder
• Conservative and advanced management of overactive bladder
• Pathophysiology of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and fecal incontinence (FI)
• Traditional and new treatment options for SUI and FI
• Techniques and best practices for minimally invasive surgeries for pelvic organ prolapse
• Management of complications and complex cases in urogynecology
• Tools to prevent and treat surgical complications
• How to manage ovarian masses
• Vulvar lesions: diagnosis and treatment
• Preventing cervical cancer
• Fertility-sparing options in uterine neoplasia
• The latest in trophoblastic disease
• Exciting developments in gynecologic cancer care
• How to optimize your surgical outcomes

Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility:
March 14–15, 2023

Coverage includes:

• The latest cost-effective workup for infertility
• Ovulation induction
• Guidance on when to make a referral for IVF
• Recurrent pregnancy loss
• Common reproductive endocrine disorders
• Egg freezing for women who wish to preserve fertility options
• A comprehensive update on contraceptive options, including long-acting reversible contraceptives
• Hyperandrogenism and polycystic ovary syndrome
• Congenital anomalies of the reproductive tract
• Managing the health concerns of menopausal women
• Sexual dysfunction in women
• Osteoporosis
• Management of fibroids
• Endometriosis-associated pelvic pain