18th November 2004
Jarvis Hall, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London
9.15 Coffee
Chairman: Dr Nikki Robertson
9.45 Dr Jon Dorling. Leicester Royal Infirmary
Developing a score for predicting neurological outcome following prematurity: the effect of birthweight and gestational age
10.00 Dr Topun Austin. University College London
Relationship between cerebral oxygen delivery, metabolism and mean oxygen saturation in the newborn infant
10.15 Dr Alan Groves. Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand
Relationship between blood pressure and blood flow in the first postnatal day in preterm infants
10.30 Dr Daniel West. University College London
Secondary energy failure in a piglet model of hypoxic ischaemic brain injury assessed by serial phosphorous magnetic resonance spectroscopy, water apparent diffusion and electrophysiology: a pilot study
10.45 Dr Christina Malamateniou. Hammersmith Hospital, London
Morphological differences of neonatal cerebral vascular development associated with preterm delivery: an MRA study at 3 tesla
11.00 Coffee
Chairman: Professor Andrew Wilkinson
11.30 Dr Phil Ward. Imperial College London
Reduced fractional anisotropy on diffusion tensor MR imaging following hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
11.45 Dr Giles Kendall. University College London
Amiloride is neuroprotective when administered before hypoxia ischaemia in a neonatal mouse model
12.00 Professor Hugo Lagercrantz – Stockholm, Sweden
Widdowson Lecture (sponsored by Chiesi): The development of the brain and the emergence of the mind
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 AGM – Members only
Chairman: Dr Howard Clarke
14.30 Dr Win Tin. The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
Are asymptomatic low blood glucose levels in babies of less than 32 weeks gestation really damaging?
14.45 Dr N Modi. Imperial College London
Increasing adiposity accompanies accelerated linear growth in healthy human infants
15.00 Dr Paul Clarke. Hope Hospital, Manchester
Vitamin K status of preterm infants with a prolonged prothrombin time
15.15 Tea
Chairman: Dr Andrew Lyon
15.45 Dr Geraldine Ng. St George’s Hospital, London
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Series – a comparison of two therapeutic eras
16.00 Dr Sanjay Gupta. The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough
Outcome of babies requiring adrenaline during resuscitation at birth
16.15 Dr Howard Clark. University of Oxford
Early treatment with a recombinant fragment of human surfactant protein D reduces the degree of emphysematous change developing in SP-D knock-out mice
16.30 Dr Gopi Menon. Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Late infection in a randomised controlled trial of pre-emptive morphine analgesia in preterm infants
16.45 Dr G Gavriel. Imperial College London
Neonatal buccal cell collection for DNA analysis
17.00 Close of meeting and Drinks