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NEONATAL SOCIETY 2009 SPRING PROGRAMME
The programme below provides the running order for the 2009 Spring Meeting. Abstracts are linked below, but may also be located using the alphabetical index. View images from the meeting.
Spring Meeting, 12th March 2009
Institute of Child Health, Guildford St, London WC1N 1EH
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee/ Tea
Session 1: Chairman - Dr Anoo Jain
10.00 Ela Chakkarapani, University of Bristol
Combined xenon-hypothermia therapy preserves cerebrovascular pressure reactivity (PRx) in
hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE)
10.15 Nicholas Hoque, University of Bristol
Anti-fibrotic drugs as potential treatments for Post-Hemorrhagic Ventricular
Dilatation: Evaluation in a neonatal rat model
10.30 Vimal Vasu, Imperial College London
Preterm macronutrient intake does not influence brain size at term equivalent
age
10.45 Paul Kemp, Imperial College London
The effect of elective caesarean section on hepatic gene expression 7 days
post-partum
11.00 Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford
Self-fulfilling prophecies in newborn intensive care
(abstract not accepted for publication on website)
11.15 Coffee/ Tea
Session 2: Chairman - Professor Kate Costeloe
11.45 Ravi Parikh, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Maternal methadone therapy increases QTc interval in newborn infants
12.00 Xun Liu, University of Bristol
72-hour-therapeutic hypothermia in encephalopathic infants does not affect serum
gentamicin concentrations
12.15 Ravi Parikh, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Assessment of myocardial function in preterm neonates with significant PDA using
tissue doppler imaging
12.30 Deepak Julka, Imperial College London
The influence of preterm birth on cardiovascular development at term
Session 3: Chairman - Dr Alison Forhead
14.00 Anne Doolan, Imperial College London
Intrahepatocellular lipid (IHCL) content in young adults born below 33 weeks
gestation
14.15 Nikhil Patel, University of Nottingham
The effect of maternal nutrient restriction in early-to-mid gestation followed
by juvenile obesity on inflammatory markers in pericardial adipose tissue
14.30 Areli Gutierrez, Imperial College London
Calculation of weight growth velocity in extremely preterm infants
14.45 Neonatal
Society Student Prize: Peter Fernandez, University of Oxford
Neonatology in East Africa
15.00 Coffee/Tea
Session 3: Chairman – Professor Andrew Whitelaw
15.30 The
McCance Lecture: Henrik Hagberg, Institute of Reproductive & Developmental
Biology, Imperial College, London
Hypoxia-ischemia in the neonatal brain: molecular mechanisms of injury
16.30 Drinks and close of meeting
