Institute of Child Health, Guildford St, London WC1N 1EH
09.15 Coffee
Session1: Chair – Dr James Boardman, Meetings Secretary
09.45 K Turner, University of Kent
Is Preterm Birth associated with Accelerated Telomere Shortening?
10.00 R Kumar, Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust Hospital
Improving Trends in the Outcome of Live Inborn Babies with Congenital Diaphragmatic
Hernia following development of a Centralised Management Protocol
10.15 P Seddon, Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, Brighton
Respiratory Monitoring by Pulse Oximetry Plethysmogram Analysis in Preterm Infants
10.30 P Shangaris, University College London
Correction of Haemoglobin Levels in a Heterozygous Humanized Mouse Model of Thalassaemia after Fetal Gene Therapy
10.45 N Aladangardy, Homerton University Hospital
Withdrawal of Life Sustaining Treatment for Newborn Infants: The WiLST Study
11.00 Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Professor Howard Clark, President Elect
11.30 M Ezzati, University College London
Limb Remote Ischemic Post-Conditioning Protects Cerebral White Matter in a Piglet Model of Perinatal Asphyxia
11.45 R Lee-Kelland, University of Bristol
Overcooling During Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Instability after Rewarming are associated with a Poorer Neurodevelopmental Outcome
12.00 Keynote lecture: Professor Peter Dargaville, University of Tasmania
Minimally Invasive Surfactant Delivery in the Preterm Infant
13.00 Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Dr David Carr, Committee member
14.00 A Walker, Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Outcome of Antenatally Detected Encephalocele; Tertiary Centre Experience over a 10 Year Period
14.15 B Ibrahim, Imperial College London
One-Year Mortality of Very Preterm Infants Admitted to Neonatal Units in England
14.30 E Moore, University of Edinburgh
Preterm Birth is Associated with Atypical Social Cognition in Infancy
14.45 S Mulla, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Severe Biochemical Disturbances after Introduction of a New Regional Parenteral Nutrition Formulation Matching Current ESPGHAN Recommendations
15.00 N Przysiezna, Imperial College London
Postnatal Age Related Metabolic Changes in Faecal Water from Premature Babies
15.15 S Sparrow, University of Edinburgh
Preterm Birth is Associated with Alterations in the Methylome at Sites that Influence Neural Development
15.30 Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 3: Chair – Dr Richard Thwaites, General Secretary
16.00 J Whistler, University of Nottingham
The Impact of Route of Delivery on Skeletal Muscle Metabolism in Piglets
16.15 N Andreas, Imperial College London
The Association between Breast Milk Macronutrient Content and Maternal BMI
16.30 I Mawson, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Does the Sensitivity of Pulse Oximetry Screening Depend on the Type of Critical Congenital Heart Disease? An Adjunct to the Pulse Oximetry Screening Debate
16.45 The McCance Lecture: Professor Malcolm Macleod, University of Edinburgh
Why Preclinical Trials Fail to Translate
17.45 Drinks and close of meeting