25th – 26th June 2009,
In honour of the Society’s 50th Anniversary
Redworth Hall Hotel, County Durham
Thursday 25th June 2009
10.00 onwards – Registration
12.00 Lunch
Session 1 Chair: Professor Howard Clark
13.00 Don Sharkey, Nottingham, UK
Maternal nutrient restriction during early fetal kidney development attenuates the renal innate inflammatory response in obese juvenile offspring
13.15 Michael Symonds, Nottingham, UK
Effect of late gestational nutrient restriction on gene expression of markers of white and brown adipocytes in the postnatal sheep
13.30 Neena Modi, Imperial College London, UK
The body composition of the healthy newborn infant
13.45 Anne Rikke Ruager-Martin, Imperial College London, UK
Effect of maternal obesity on newborn body composition
14.00 Neonatal Society Young Investigator, 2009: Matthew Hyde, Imperial College London, UK
Nature knows best: the effect of mode of delivery on the physiology of the neonate
The Young Investigator Lecture is sponsored by Chiesi.
14.45 Afternoon Tea/ Coffee
Session 2 Chair: Dr Anoo Jain
15.00 Poster Presentations
Session 3 Chair: Dr Donald Peebles
15.45 Divyen K Shah, St Louis, USA
Electrographic seizure activity in preterm infants in the first week of life is associated with cerebral injury
16.00 Ela Chakkarapani, Bristol, UK
Xenon inhalation with therapeutic hypothermia offers greater neuroprotection after hypoxic schaemic encephalopathy in newborn pigs
16.15 Andrew Whitelaw, Bristol, UK
Long-term effects of drainage, irrigation and fibrinolytic therapy for preterm infants with post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation
Session 4 Chair: Professor Andrew Whitelaw
16.30 Tizard Lecture: Professor Frances Jensen, Harvard Medical School, USA
Mechanisms and therapeutic targets in neonatal seizures
18.45 Group Photograph and Drinks Reception to mark The Neonatal Society’s 50th Anniversary
19.30 Dinner in honour of the 50th Anniversary
Reminiscences: Professor Cliff Roberton, Professor Andrew Whitelaw
Friday 26th June 2009
Session 5 Chair: Dr Andrew Lyon
08.30 Imogen Storey, Birmingham, UK
Real time polymerase chain reaction for the rapid detection of group B streptococcus in colonised infants and maternal postnatal low vaginal swabs
08.45 Robert Carr, Guy’s Hospital London, UK
Neutropenia, systemic infection and mortality in preterm, small for gestational age neonates
09.00 Kevin Goss, Southampton, UK
The culture-independent profiling of bacteria in preterm infants and correlation with bronchopulmonary dysplasia
09.15 Andrew Currie, King’s College London, UK
Prediction of extubation success using the tension time index in neonates
Session 6 Chair: Professor Sunil Sinha
09.30 Professor Richard Martin, Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Neonatal Lung: Past, Present and Future
10.30 Morning Coffee/ Tea
Session 7 Chair: Professor Anne Greenhough
The most influential neonatal science papers of the last 50 years
11.00 Helen Budge, Nottingham, UK
Barker et al. 1989 – Growth in utero, blood pressure in childhood and adult life, and mortality from cardiovascular disease
11.15 Andrew Whitelaw, Bristol, UK
Sarnat and Sarnat 1976 – Neonatal encephalopathy following fetal distress. A clinical and electroencephalographic study
11.30 Andrew Wilkinson, Oxford, UK
Gregory et al. 1971 – Treatment of the idiopathic respiratory-distress syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure
11.45 Howard Clark, Southampton, UK
Avery and Mead 1959 – Surface properties in relation to atelectasis and hyaline membrane disease
12.00 Kate Costeloe, Homerton London, UK
Liggins and Howie 1972 – A controlled trial of antepartum glucocorticoid treatment for prevention of the respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants
12.15 Professor John Davis
Looking back over 50 years of Neonatal Science
12.30 Lunch
Friday 26th June 2009
Session 8 Chair: Dr Richard Thwaites
13.30 Brian Darlow, Christchurch, New Zealand
Vitamin K deficiency bleeding in New Zealand after the vitamin K – cancer controversy: an 11 year surveillance study
13.45 Colin Morley, Melbourne, Australia
Defining the “normal” range for oxygen saturation in newly born infants
14.00 Colin Morley, Melbourne, Australia
Resuscitator performance during neonatal mask ventilation in the delivery room
14.15 Charles Roehr, Berlin, Germany
Delivery room management of VLBW infants in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Session 9 Chair: Professor Kate Costeloe
14.30 Keynote speaker: Professor Malcolm Chiswick, University of Manchester
Viability: Science, Ethics, and Practice
15.30 Close of Meeting, Afternoon Tea/ Coffee