The programme below provides the running order for the 2018 Summer Meeting.
Summer Meeting, 28th – 29th June 2018, Dublin
Thursday 28th June 2018
10.50 – 11.00 Welcome
Session 1: 11.00 – 13.00
Chairpersons: Prof. Afif El – Khuffash & Prof. Eleanor Molloy
11.00 – 11.15 M Abu Bakar, University Maternity Hospital, Limerick (UMHL)
Home oxygen referral audit in premature neonates born In UMHL
11.15 – 11.30 H Sharp, University College London
Management of neonatal chylothorax: Twenty years’ experience in a single tertiary Neonatal Unit
11.30 – 11.45 J Timon, NUI Galway
Cord blood lymphocyte count as a potential screening tool for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
11.45 – 12.00 E Andrews, University Hospital, Southampton
3D Scanning as a minimally invasive measuring technique for neonatal anthropometry
12.00 – 13.00 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Rhodri Cusack, Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition and its potential clinical applications
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch/Meet the Sponsors/Posters
Session 2: 14.00 – 15.30
Chairpersons: Prof. Gene Dempsey & Dr Chris Gale
14.00 – 14.15 C Kortsalioudaki, University College London
Colonisation and late-onset sepsis due to Gram-negative bacteria in hospitalized neonates: the NeoHIEC study
14.15 – 14.30 S Fareed, University Hospital Limerick
Indicators for lumbar puncture in well – looking neonates; evidence from a national questionnaire – based survey
14.30 – 14.45 R Hutchinson, Kings College London
Intestinal microbiome development in stable preterm infants: a longitudinal study
14.45 – 15.00 E Molloy, Trinity College Dublin
Sex differences in innate immune function in neonates
15.00 – 15.15 G Toldi, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
T-cell proliferation response in neonates at birth and at 3 weeks of age: preliminary results of the NAMFISIN study
15.15 – 15.30 T Strickland, Trinity College Dublin
Chronobiology in Neonatal Encephalopathy
15.30 – 16.00 Tea/Coffee/Meet the Sponsors/Posters
16.00 – 17.00 The David Harvey Lecture: Prof Allyson Pollock, Consultant in Public Health Medicine and the Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University
The Future of the National Health Service in England and implications on the rest of the UK?
17.00 Day 1 Close
18.30 Drinks followed by Conference Dinner – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
19.00 Conference Dinner – Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Friday 29th June 2018
08.30 – 09.00 Registration/Tea/Coffee/Meet the Sponsors/Posters
Session 3: 09.00 – 10.45
Chairpersons: Prof. Jan Miletin and Dr Karen Luyt
09.00 – 09.15 G Geary, University of Bristol
Corpus callosal area is associated with cognitive but not motor abilities in school-aged children without cerebral palsy cooled for neonatal encephalopathy
09.15.09.30 P Galdi, University of Edinburgh
A data-driven metric of atypical brain development in preterm birth
09.30 – 09.45 P Tharmapoopathy, Royal London Hospital
The predictive value of cerebral MR imaging for later neurodevelopment in newborns who have undergone therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in clinical practice
09.45 – 10.00 G Toldi, Birmingham Women’s Hospital
Cytokine production pattern of T lymphocytes in neonatal arterial ischaemic stroke during the first month of life – a case series
10.00 – 10.15 E Jordan, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Survey of sedation, respiratory support and parental contact practices during therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
10.15 – 10.30 E Molloy, Trinity College Dublin
Altered innate immunity in neonatal encephalopathy
10.30 – 10.45 H Cullen, King’s College London
Genes associated with neuropsychiatric disease increase vulnerability to abnormal deep grey matter development
10.45 – 11.15 Tea/Coffee/Meet the Sponsors /Posters
Session 4: 11.15 – 13.15
Chairpersons: Prof. Helen Budge and Dr Mike Boyle
11.15 – 11.30 N Aminudin, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
Noise exposure in NICU and during neonatal transport: effects and effectiveness of noise protection
11.30 – 11.45 N Bussmann, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
Early diastolic dysfunction and respiratory morbidity in premature infants: an observational study
11.45 – 12.00 N Bussmann, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
Right ventricular and pulmonary vascular coupling is influenced by left ventricular diastolic function in premature infants
12.00 – 12.15 M Murphy, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
Breathing and crying by newly-born preterm infants in an era of delayed cord clamping
12.15 – 13.15 Keynote Lecture: Prof. Andrew Ewer, University of Birmingham, UK
Pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects: a long journey, are we there yet?
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch and Meet the Sponsors and Posters
Session 5: 14.15 – 15.45
Chairperson: Prof. Howard Clark
14.15 – 14.55 Young Investigator’s Prize Lecture: Dr Cheryl Battersby, Imperial College London
Necrotising enterocolitis: addressing uncertainties using population approaches and big data
14.55 Prizegiving for Best Oral Presentation by a Trainee
15.00 – 15.30 Tea/Coffee/Meet the Sponsors/Posters
15.30 – 16.30 The Peter Tizard Lecture: Professor Andrew Morris, Professor of Medicine
Director, Health Data Research UK, Vice-Principal Data Science, University of Edinburgh
Data Science: the cornerstone of medical discovery
16.30 Close of meeting