Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
09.30 Coffee
Session 1: Chair – Professor Howard Clark, President Elect
10.00 N Longford, Imperial College London
Monitoring the progress of infants with low birth weight in Colombia
10.15 E Neary, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
Coagulation system in very premature neonates
10.30 S Pereira, Queen Mary University of London
Intervention levels for the support of blood pressure in extremely preterm infants: a pilot randomized trial
10.45 L Mahoney, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Non-invasive measurements in the assessment of normal cardiovascular adaptation in term & near term infants
11.00 Morning Coffee
Session 2: Chair – Dr Richard Thwaites, General Secretary
11.30 Keynote lecture: Professor Nick Bishop, University of Sheffield
What’s new in paediatric bone disease?
12.30 Annual General Meeting for Members of the Neonatal Society
13.30 Lunch Break
Session 3: Chair – Dr James Boardman, Meetings Secretary
14.30 C Kotidis, University of Liverpool
Haemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus impairs cerebral oxygenation and may be linked with intraventricular haemorrhage
14.45 C Lee, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Diffuse optical imaging of resting state functional connectivity in newborns
15.00 P Yip, Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Temporal changes in the expression of candidate microRNAs in dried blood spots from cooled newborns with cerebral injury
15.15 M Chalia, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Investigating the cortical haemodynamic response of burst suppressed or discontinuous electroencephalographic activity in infants with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
15.30 Afternoon Tea
Session 4: Chair – Dr David Carr
16.00 Q Qureshi, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough
Perinatal outcomes of echogenic bowel during second trimester anomaly scan: a cohort study
16.15 N Andreas, Imperial College London
The influence of maternal BMI on the infant and maternal urinary metabolome
16.30 Prize for best paper by a trainee, presented by Professor Modi
16.35 The Widdowson Lecture: Professor John Mathers, University of Newcastle
The Science of Nutrigenomics
17.35 Drinks and Close of Meeting