29 November 2001
Barnes Hall, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London
10.00 Coffee
Chairman Professor Anne Greenough
10.45 A Johnson
A multicentre randomised controlled trial of high frequency oscillatory ventilation for the prevention of chronic lung disease of prematurity: the United Kingdom Oscillation Study (UKOS)
11.00 MP Guerra
Effects of phenobarbitone on the background EEG in the newborn: video-EEG analysis
11.15 RJ Howells
Obstetric complications arising from deferred caesarean section
11.30 Coffee
Chairman Professor Terence Stephenson
12.00 DS Gardner
Fetal cardiovascular, endocrine and metabolic responses to umbilical cord compression and to subsequent acute hypoxaemia
12.15 RA Primhak
Maturational changes in lung impedance spectra
12.30 O Williams
Exhaled nitric oxide in prematurely born infants
12.45 M Meeks
Neonatal complications of primary ciliary dyskinesia; which neonates should be screened?
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Committee Meeting – Committee members only
14.00 – 14.45 Annual General Meeting – Neonatal Society members only
Chairman Dr Andy Lyon
14.45 J Bispham
Impact of maternal nutrient restriction in early to mid gestation on leptin, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and growth hormone receptor (GHR) mRNA abundance in adipose tissue of the fetal lamb
15.00 CJ Ashworth
Controlled alterations to maternal retinol status affect piglet birthweight and within litter uniformity
15.15 G Gopalakrishnan
Influence of maternal nutrition during early to mid gestation in sheep on juvenile plasma cortisol and glucose concentrations under basal and stimulated conditions
15.30 Tea
Chairman The President, Dr Paul Johnson
16.00 The Curosurf Lecture: Professor David Leon Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Fetal programming: how real, how relevant?
17.00 Drinks and close of meeting
The Neonatal Society would like to thank Miss Hannah Jarvis and her colleagues at SMA Nutrition for their generous help in printing and distributing this programme.