10th March 2011

Institute of Child Health, Guildford St, London WC1N 1EH

09.15 Coffee

Session 1: Chair – Dr Richard Thwaites

09.45 A Shenvi, West Midlands Neonatal Transfer Service (WMNTS)
Gastroschisis transfers conducted by the West Midlands Neonatal Transfer Service

10.00 S Cleeve, Barts and The London NHS Trust
Necrotising Enterocolitis that requires surgery has a significant impact on survival

10.15 Keynote Speaker: Professor Agostino Pierro, Nuffield Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London
NEC, Experimental and Clinical studies

11.15 – Morning Tea/Coffee

Session 2: Chair- Dr Matthew Hyde

11.45 N Tusor, Centre For the Developing Brain, Imperial College, London
Diffusion Tensor Imaging analysed by Tract-Based Spatial Statistics as a biomarker of adverse outcome after hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy treated with hypothermia

12.00 M Karlsson, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet at Stockholm Söder Hospital
Lactate Dehydrogenase is a valid outcome-predictor in hypothermia treated newborn infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

12.15 Keynote Speaker: Dr Helena Gardiner, Senior Lecturer and Director of Perinatal Cardiology, Imperial College, London
Fetal cardiac intervention – does it make a difference?

13.15 Lunch

Session 3: Chair- Dr Helen Budge

14.30 E Chakkarapani, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol
Cerebrovascular Pressure reactivity: biomarker in newborn global hypoxia-ischemia pig model

14.45 M Thoresen, Child Health, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol
Resuscitation with 100% oxygen counteracts the neuroprotective effect of therapeutic hypothermia in the neonatal rat

15.00 N Modi, Section of Neonatal Medicine, Chelsea & Westminster Campus, Imperial College London
Two-year outcomes of a randomised trial of prophylactic granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to reduce sepsis in extremely preterm, small for gestational age babies (the PROGRAMS trial)

15.15 A Ismail, The Medical School, University of Oxford
Milk and the emergence of group B streptococcal disease in humans

15.30 Afternoon Tea/Coffee

Session 4: Chair- Professor Kate Costeloe

16.00 M Tranter, Department of Cardiac Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, London
Vaginal delivery in piglets, compared with caesarean section, is associated with a higher level of adrenergic stress at birth, and a sustained alteration in phospholamban at 7 days post partum

16.15 S Kayemba-Kay’s, Paediatrics Dept, Hôpital de l’Enfance, Lausanne University Teaching Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Does maternal smoking during pregnancy affect fetal weight gain before gestational age 32 weeks?

16.30 The McCance Lecture: Professor Abigail Fowden, Professor of Perinatal Physiology, University of Cambridge
The Placenta and Fetal Programming

17.30: Drinks and close of meeting