- 7th November 2019
- The Royal Society of Medicine, London
9:30 – 17:30 with a drinks Reception at 18:00
Open to all professionals working in the field of perinatal medicine welcome. Admission is free, no registration required.
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5pm on Friday 18th October 2019
- KEY LECTURES
The Widdowson Lecture
Professor Andrew Copp, UCL Institute of Child Health
Neural tube defects: developmental biology, prevention and policy
The Keynote Lecture
Professor Rebeccah Slater, University of Oxford
Pain perception in the Newborn
The Neonatal Society AGM will be held on the same day. Please contact our General Secretary, Professor Andrew Ewer if you would like to suggest agenda items.
- PROGRAMME
08.30. Coffee
Session 1: Chair – Professor Howard Clark
9.15 C Howarth, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Can we reliably predict NEC in preterm infants using gut biomarkers and Near Infrared Spectroscopy?
9.30 C Murphy, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Blood transfusion causes more profound changes in splanchnic oxygenation compared with brain
9.45 I Jones, University of Southampton
Remote ischaemic conditioning as a novel therapeutic intervention for experimental NEC
10.00 E Williams, King’s College London
End-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) levels during resuscitation and CO2 levels in the immediate neonatal period and subsequent cerebral injury
10.15 D Chong, University of Cambridge
The effect of pressure rise time on ventilator parameters and gas exchange during time-cycled and flow-cycled neonatal ventilation
10.30 O Carney, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Incidental findings on brain MR imaging in low risk term neonates in the developing human connectome project
10.45 Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Professor Andy Ewer
11.15 Keynote Lecture
Professor Rebeccah Slater. Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. University of Oxford.
Pain perception in the newborn
12.15 Annual General Meeting for Members of the Neonatal Society
13.15 Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Dr Ela Chakkarapani
14.45 J Gundersen, University of Oslo
Classical neuropathology shows hypothermic neuroprotection in seven day old rats after a mild hypoxic ischemic insult
15.00 L Hage, Imperial College London
Changing clinical characteristics of infants treated with therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy in England, Wales and Scotland
15.15 M Eyre, King’s College London
The developing human connectome project: normal and disrupted functional connectivity across the perinatal period
15.30 B Dean, University of Edinburgh
Eye-tracking for longitudinal assessment of social cognition in children born preterm
15.45 Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 4: Chair – Dr Chris Gale
16.15 S Newell, University of Bristol
Neonatal brain volume in twins with discordant birthweight – MRI findings from a multicentre prospective cohort study
16.30 G Toldi, University of Birmingham
Neonatal T cells acquire both pro-inflammatory and tolerant phenotypes in first three weeks of life
16.45 H Wood, University of Birmingham
Breast-fed neonates show increased immune tolerance against maternal antigens
17.00 Prize for best presentation by a trainee
17:05 Widdowson Lecture (Introduced by Professor James Boardman)
Professor Andrew Copp. UCL Institute of Child Health.
Neural tube defects: developmental biology, prevention and policy
18.05 Drinks reception and close of meeting
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Autumn Meeting 2019 Abstract Book
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Autumn Meeting 2019 Programme
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