18th March 2004
North Hall, Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street, London
09.15 Coffee
Chairman: Dr Andrew Lyon
9.45 R Gottstein
Vascular endothelial growth factor and soluble receptors in preterm chronic lung disease
10.00 J Cheong
Gastrointestinal manifestations of postnatal cytomegalovirus infection occurring in admissions to a neonatal intensive care unit over a five-year period
10.15 K Costeloe
Early admission Bifidobacterium breve strain BBG to Very Low Birthweight (VLBW) infants: A pilot study
10.30 D Harrington
Urinary excretion of vitamin K catabolites in term and preterm infants
10.45 S McCullough
Towards an effective and safe gentamicin regime in neonates
11.00 Coffee
Chairman: The President, Professor Andrew Wilkinson
11.30 L Passingham
The effect of maternal nutrient restriction during early to mid-gestation on the enzyme activity of 11 beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11bHSD2) in sheep kidneys of 3 year old offspring
11.45 M Gnanalingham
The effect of chronic umbilical cord compression on uncoupling protein-1 in the late gestation ovine brown adipose tissue
12.00 – 13.00 Keynote lecture Dr Olaf Dammann, Associate Professor in Perinatal Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
Perinatal Brain Damage in Preterm Newborns – Dry Numbers vs Wet Lab
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Chairman: Professor Anne Greenough
14.00 C Beveridge
The development of a sub-microarray for exploring virulence in Group B Streptococcus (GBS)
14.15 F Cowan
Focal perinatal brain lesions in the term infant: antenatal and perinatal factors
14.30 A Bainbridge
Comparison of apparent diffusion coefficient of water to histology in a model of hypoxia-ischemia in newborn brain
14.45 J Cheong
Characterisation of brain intracellular alkalosis during secondary energy failure in the newborn piglet model
15.00 Tea
Chairman: Dr Nikki Robertson
15.30 L Srinivasan
Smaller cerebellar volumes in very preterm infants at term equivalent age are associated with the presence of supratentorial lesions
15.45 J Boardman
Structural abnormalities in the central grey matter associated with cerebral white matter disease in preterm infants
16.00 The McCance Lecture: Professor Linda de Vries, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Neonatal Neuroimaging – the last 30 years
17.00 Drinks and close of meeting