7th March 2002
Barnes Hall, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London
09.00 Coffee
Chairman Professor Anne Greenough
09.30 A-F Hoo
Airway function is diminished at 1 year in ‘healthy’ infants delivered prematurely
09.45 J Pillow (introduced by Professor J Stocks)
Respiratory impedance measurements can identify optimal lung volume recruitment during HFOV
10.00 S Pearce
Ontogeny of prolactin receptor and uncoupling protein 2 in the pregnant uterus during mid to late gestation in sheep
10.15 H Clark (introduced by Professor A Wilkinson)
Treatment with recombinant surfactant protein D (SP-D) ameliorates macrophage mediated inflammation in mice developing chronic lung disease
10.30 Coffee
Chairman Dr Andrew Lyon
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote speaker: Dr Alex Mellanby, Public Health Consultant, East London and The City Health Authority
Effective sex education
Chairman Dr Lindsay Heasman
12.00 G Gopalakrishnan
Maternal nutrient restriction during pregnancy results in lower plasma cortisol concentration in sheep
12.15 M Hyatt
Ontogeny of hepatic growth hormone (GH), prolactin (PRL) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) receptor abundance between late gestation and six months after birth in the lamb
12.30 Z Yaqoob (introduced by Professor N McIntosh)
A comparison of the retinal vascular changes following a short or prolonged exposure to carbon dioxide in a variable oxygen model of retinopathy of prematurity
12.45 JR Tooley
How stressful is being cold? Implications for current clinical studies of hypothermia
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Chairman Professor Terence Stephenson
14.00 – 15.00 Keynote speaker: Dr Jacqueline Wallace, Head – Ovine Pregnancy Group, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen
Nutrient partitioning and prenatal development during adolescent pregnancy
Chairman Dr Nikki Robertson
15.00 A Narendra
New cot side method of measuring total circulating blood volume by near infrared spectroscopy and ICG in newborn infants
15.15 AK Sinha
Volumetric measurements of common carotid artery blood flow in premature infants: intra-observer and inter-observer reproducibility
15.30 M Brodlie (introduced by Dr I Laing)
Accelerated decline in autopsy rate
15.45 H Wright
Outcomes for extremely preterm infants (<26w gestation) in a geographic region with highly centralised perinatal services
16.00 Tea
Chairman The President of the Neonatal Society, Dr Paul Johnson
16.30 The McCance Lecture: Professor Andrew Prentice, International Nutrition Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Yokesacs, placentas and breasts: nutritional regulation of early growth
17.30 Drinks and close of meeting