The programme below provides the running order for the 2017 Autumn Meeting.
Autumn Meeting, 9th November 2017
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
09.30 Coffee
Session 1: Chair – Professor Andrew Ewer, Meetings Secretary
10.00. L Tullie, Southampton Children’s Hospital
Prematurity is not associated with worse outcomes in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia
10.15. C Course, University Hospital of Wales
The increasing demands of neonatal hypoglycaemia: Experience from a tertiary regional neonatal intensive care unit
10.30. J Davis, University of Western Australia
Postnatal dexamethasone increases relative expression of surfactant protein messenger RNA in a preterm ventilated lamb model
10.45. K Y Lee, Cambridge University Hospitals
Electrolyte abnormalities in preterm neonates receiving electrolyte-free versus standard parenteral nutrition solutions: a two-centre retrospective study
11.00. Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Professor Howard Clark, President
11.30. The Widdowson Lecture: Professor Pierre Gressens, INSERM and King’s College London
Genomics and Preterm Brain Injury
12.30. Annual General Meeting for Members of the Neonatal Society
13.30. Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Dr Karen Luyt, Committee member
14.45. I Lingam, University College London
Serial microRNA measurements can differentiate hypoxia from infectionsensitised hypoxia in a piglet model of neonatal encephalopathy
15.00. I Lingam, University College London
Refining the use of magnesium in neonatal encephalopathy: magnesiumaugmented therapeutic hypothermia compared to hypothermia alone
15.15. P Lewis, University College London Hospital
Improving the early care of newborn using a novel neonatal delivery safety checklist
15.30. G Sullivan, University of Edinburgh
Breast milk exposure influences brain development in preterm infants
15.45. Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 3: Chair – Professor James Boardman, General Secretary
16.15. K Martinello, University College London
Temperature profile of infants with moderate to severe neonatal encephalopathy undergoing standard temperature management at a Ghanaian hospital – a pilot study
16.30. A Abelian, Maelor Hospital, Wrexham
Feasibility study of a novel assay for detection of bacteria in neonatal CSF
16.45. M Thoresen, University of Bristol
Epilepsy and the need for drug treatment in infancy and early school years after perinatal asphyxia and therapeutic hypothermia
17.00 Prize for best presentation by a trainee
17.05. Keynote Lecture. Professor Rebecca Reynolds, University of Edinburgh
Maternal health determines life course outcome
18.05 Drinks and Close of Meeting