26th – 27th June 2003
Centre for Medical Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford
Thursday 26th June 2003
09:00 – 10:00 Registration
Chairman: Professor Anne Greenough
10:00 J Calvert
Surfactant protein d/phosphatidyl-choline ratio is increased in tracheal lavage samples from artificially ventilated neonates with sepsis
10:15 J Abraham
Pilot studies of monocyte intracellular interleukin-1b for detection of neonatal sepsis
10:30 A Saraswatula
Hetero-resistance to vancomycin in Coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CoNS) isolated from neonatal blood cultures
10:45 A Lall
The intrauterine immune response and abnormal magnetic resonance images of the brain
11:00 P Fleming
Sleeping position amongst preterm infants after discharge: are we getting the message across?
11:15 D Andrews
The influence of maternal psycho-social adversity, including risk for SIDS, on maternal and infant sleep/wake organisation
11:30 -12:00 Coffee
Chairman: The President of The Neonatal Society, Dr Paul Johnson
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speaker: Professor Ronald Harper, Brain Research Center UCLA
The role of forebrain and cerebellar mechanisms on cardiorespiratory control during development
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Chairman: Dr Nikki Robertson
14:00 R Bhat
Impaired response to tube breathing in infants born to smoking mothers
14:15 S Victor
Effect of carbon dioxide on background cerebral electrical activity and fractional oxygen extraction in very low birth weight infants
14:30 A Jackson
Raised blood lactate in infants <30 weeks gestation is a marker of significant periventricular haemorrhage
14:45 P Filan
The relationship between best clinical estimate of the time of cerebral injury in the newborn and EEG seizure onset
15:00 C Mae Wong
Plasma substance P and neurokinin A in neonates – variation with gestation and postnatal age
15:15 H Wullbrand
The predictive value of EEG monitoring for subsequent intracerebral complications during ventilation in preterm infants
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
Chairman: The President of The Neonatal Society, Dr Paul Johnson
16:00 – 17:00 The Tizard Lecture: Professor Lynne Murray, Winnecott Research Unit, Dept Psychology, University of Reading
Effects of maternal depression and social adversity on parenting: Implications for infant physiological development
19:00 Reception, dinner and entertainment. Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road
Accommodation in Clive Booth Hall, Oxford Brookes University, John Carne Way, Marston Road, Oxford
Friday 27th June 2003
08:15 Breakfast in the Centre for Medical Sciences
Chairman: Dr Andrew Lyon
09:00 A Dhillon
A piglet model of advanced necrotising enterocolitis following exposure to hypoxia and endotoxin
09:15 S Chuang (introduced by N Modi)
Systemic and mucosal sensitisation to dietary antigens in necrotising enterocolitis: Evidence of a mixed Th1 /Th2 profile
09:30 C Roehr (introduced by Professor Andrew Wilkinson)
Reliability of dead space measurements by volumetric capnography in ventilated small lungs
09:45 M Harrison
Increased lung water and the location of lung damage in bronchopulmonary dysplasia
10:00 I Narang (introduced by Dr M Rosenthal)
Longitudinal evaluation of lung growth 21 years after preterm birth
10:15 N Hanchard (introduced by Professor Andrew Wilkinson)
Genetic susceptibility to intrauterine survival
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Chairman: Professor Andrew Wilkinson
11:00 – 12:00 Young Investigator Prize Lecture: Dr Mark Herbert, Clinical Lecturer in Neonatal Paediatrics, University of Oxford
The relevance of genome sequencing to neonatology
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote speaker: Dr Lucy Green, Lecturer, Centre for Fetal Origins of Adult Disease, University of Southampton
Programming of cardiovascular control and growth
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch.
Chairman: Dr Paul Johnson
14:00 G Gnanalingham
Maternal undernutrition during early to mid pregnancy and programming of mitochondrial uncoupling protein-2 (UCP2) and voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) in the juvenile lung
14:15 S Uthaya
Extremely preterm birth results in altered body composition at age term-equivalent
14:30 M Lal (introduced by Professor David Field)
Population based birth weight centile for preterm newborns <=32 week gestation
14:45 S Deshpande
Excessive weight loss in term infants
15.00 Close of meeting