The programme below provides the running order for the 2018 Spring Meeting.
Spring Meeting, 30th March 2018
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
09.15 Coffee
Session1: Chair – Dr Chris Gale, Committee Member
09.30. C Harris, King’s College, London
Interleukin release from type 2 alveolar cell analogues following stretch mimicking standard inflations or sustained inflations at resuscitation
09.45. M Noureldein, Luton and Dunstable University Hospital
Outcome of preterm infants who received rescue inhaled nitric oxide to treat hypoxic respiratory failure
10.00. K Hunt, King’s College, London
Inflation breaths versus sustained inflations during stabilization at delivery of prematurely-born infants
10.15. V Sharma, University Hospital, Southampton
Role of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in prevention of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in extreme preterm neonates
10.30. G Belteki, University Hospital, Cambridge
High frequency oscillatory ventilation with volume guarantee (HFOV-VG): a single centre experience
10.45. D Gibbons, King’s College, London
Longitudinal assessment of immune development in preterm babies
11.00. Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Prof Andrew Ewer, Meetings Secretary
11.30. T Chowdhury, University of Southampton (Medical student Prize Bursary)
Immediate care of newborn babies in a low-income country (Bangladesh) – an observational study
11.45. J Webbe, Imperial College London.
Core outcomes in Neonatology: Final results of an International Delphi process involving patients, parents, healthcare professionals and researchers
12.00. N Hall, University of Southampton
Timing of nutritional exposures in relation to the development of severe necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in preterm growth restricted infants
12.15 Keynote Lecture. Prof Dominic Wilkinson, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Oxford.
Hard lessons: learning from controversial cases in medical ethics
13.15. Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Prof James Boardman, General Secretary
14.30. G Bravar, King’s College London
Correlation functional resting state networks and cerebral function monitoring in hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
14.45. J Kimpton, King’s College London
Microstructural maturation of white matter in the developing preterm brain
15.00. C Kelly, King’s College London
Abnormal microstructural development of the cortex in congenital heart disease is related to impaired cerebral oxygenation
15.15. P Montaldo. Imperial College London.
Cooling therapy is associated with improved MR biomarker measures after mild neonatal encephalopathy
15.30. Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 4: Chair – Professor Howard Clark, President
16.00. P Lally, Imperial College London
The prognostic accuracy of magnetic resonance biomarkers in neonatal encephalopathy (MARBLE): a prospective multi-centre study
16.15. G Rosser, Bart’s and the London School of Medicine
Are newborn babies with substantial brain injury after hypoxia-ischaemia more likely to have multisystem involvement as reflected by routinely collected laboratory measures? A statistical approach
16.30. L Shipley, University of Nottingham
Whole body vibration, as experienced during neonatal ambulance transportation, as a mechanism of injury in the developing brain: a new rodent model
16.45. U Kariholu, Imperial College London
Cooling in mild neonatal encephalopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
17.00. Prize for best presentation by a trainee
17.05. McCance Lecture: Dr Helen Pearson, Chief Magazine Editor, Nature
The Life Project: How 70 years of data from the British Birth Cohorts changed health and social policy
18.05 Drinks and close of meeting