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NEONATAL SOCIETY 2009 AUTUMN PROGRAMME
The programme below provides the running order for the 2009 Autumn Meeting. Abstracts are linked below, but may also be located using the alphabetical index.
Autumn Meeting, 26th November 2009
Institute of Child Health, Guildford Street, London WC1N 1EH
09.00 Coffee
Session 1: Chairperson Dr Helen Budge
09.30 Hoo AF, Institute of Child Health, London
Impact of
prematurity, sex and ethnicity on respiratory function at one year
09.45 Tamanna Moore, University College London
Pitfalls of screening
for autism in extremely preterm infants
10.00 Samantha Johnson, University College London
Psychiatric and
behavioural disorders in extremely preterm children
10.15 Samantha Johnson, University College London
Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorders in extremely preterm children: Is hyperactivity really a
problem?
10.30 Reem Al-whaibi, Newcastle University
Evidence of early reaching and object permanence in term neonates
10.45 M Martinez-Biarge, Imperial College London & La Paz
University Hospital, Madrid
Predicting motor outcome and death in infants with central grey matter damage associated with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
11.00 Morning Tea/ Coffee
Session 2: Chair Professor Donald Peebles
11.15 Sudhin Thayyil, UCL Institute of Child Health
Cerebral magnetic resonance biomarkers for predicting neurodevelopmental outcome following neonatal encephalopathy: A meta-analysis
11.30 Ela Chakkarapani, University of Bristol
Xenon inhalation with therapeutic hypothermia is cardiosupportive after hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in newborn pigs
11.45 Marianne Thoresen, University of Bristol
Effect of
hypothermia treatment on the predictive value of amplitude integrated
electroencephalogram in infants with moderate and severe perinatal asphyxia
Session 3: Chair Professor Andrew Whitelaw
12.00 Keynote
Speaker: Professor Lee Martin, Professor of Pathology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
The role of brain pathology in animal models in the
understanding of brain injury in the human
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Annual General Meeting for Members of the Neonatal Society
Session 4: Chair Dr Richard Thwaites
14.15 Xun Liu, University of Bristol
Cortical brain
temperatures changes during whole body cooling of piglets
14.30 Sudhin Thayyil, UCL Institute of Child Health
Whole body cooling
using phase changing material in neonatal encephalopathy: A pilot randomised
control trial
14.45 Nicholas Hoque, University of Bristol
A comparison of
cooling methods used in therapeutic hypothermia for perinatal asphyxia
15.00 Christopher Gale, The Royal London Hospital
In-utero transfer, too difficult? A prospective survey of missed in-utero transfers
15.15 Y Statnikov, Chelsea & Westminster
Intensive care
provided by non-level 3 neonatal units in England
15.30 Neonatal
Society Student Prize: Elizabeth Hill, University of Bristol Medical School
Innovating iron supplementation during pregnancy in Guyana
15.45 Coffee
Session 5: Chair Professor Kate Costeloe
16.15 Kayleigh Almond, University of Nottingham
The influence of changing the macronutrient content of the maternal diet on offspring development and liver metabolism
16.30 D Murgasova, Chelsea and Westminster
Impact of maternal
BMI on intrahepatocellular lipid in offspring
16.45 JR Parkinson, Chelsea and Westminster
Intramyocellular lipid deposition in young adults born <33 weeks gestation
17.00 The Widdowson
Lecture: Professor Alan Lucas, Professor in Paediatric Nutrition, Institute of Child Health
Counter-intuitive concepts in early nutrition
18.00 Drinks and close of meeting
