60th anniversary celebration
This special meeting marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Neonatal Society. A series of keynote lectures were given by research leaders who highlighted step changes in understanding and clinical practice in perinatal medicine that have taken place over the past six decades, and they discussed key challenges that must now be addressed.
There were free science presentations, posters, and the Society’s Young Investigator award.
A reception and dinner was held in Clare College on 27th June.
- 29th June 2019
- The Royal Society of Medicine, London
2019 Summer Programme
This programme provides the running order for the 2019 Summer Meeting of The Neonatal Society at Claire College, Cambridge.
These abstracts were presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Applying big-data science to real-world neonatal data
Greenbury S, Wu J, Ougham K, Hyde M, Glen R, Gale C, Angelini E, Modi N. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Morphine Sedation During Therapeutic Hypothermia In Term Asphyxiated Infants Does Not Influence Bayley 3 Developmental Outcome At 18-24 Months Of Age
Julia K Gundersen, Sally Jary, Emma Scull-Brown, Satomi Okano, Mathias Karlsson, Lars Walløe, Ela Chakkarapani, Marianne Thoresen. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Visual Impairments At 10-Year Follow-Up After Grades 3 Or 4 Intraventricular Haemorrhage With Ventricular Dilatation: A Prospective, Masked Evaluation
C Williams, P Warnes, S Jary , G Young, P Blair, H Miller, C Benton, M Morgan, C Lea, D Odd, I Pople, W Hollingsworth, K Aquilina, A Smith-Collins, A Whitelaw and K Luyt . (CW to be introduced by A Whitelaw). Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Can Planned Early Delivery Between 34+0 And 36+6 Weeks’ Gestation Improve Perinatal Outcomes For Women With Pre-Eclampsia In Low- And Middle-Income
Dr. Alice Beardmore-Gray, Emily Stroud, Prof Lucy Chappell, Prof Andrew Shennan. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Socioeconomic Deprivation And Preterm Birth Predict Speech, Language And Communication Skills: Evidence From A Population Cohort Of 26,341 British
Daniela Ene, Geoff Der MA MSc, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Sinéad O’Carroll, Graham MacKenzie, Martin Higgins, James P Boardman. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Planned delivery or expectant management for late preterm pre-eclampsia: a randomised controlled trial (PHOENIX trial).
Lucy C Chappell, Peter Brocklehurst, Marcus Green, Rachael Hunter, Pollyanna Hardy, Edmund Juszczak. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Thalamic N-Acetyl Aspartate Level Predicts Adverse Neurodevelopmental Outcomes In Babies With Isolated White Matter/Cortical Injury After Neonatal
P Ivain, P Montaldo, PJ Lally, V Oliveira, J Mendoza, M Morales, S Shankaran, and S Thayyil. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Parental Age Effects On Neonatal White Matter Development
O Gale-Grant, D Christiaens, L Cordero-Grande, A Chew, S Falconer, A Makropoulos, N Harper, A Price, J Hutter, E Hughes, S Victor, S Counsell, D Rueckert, J Hajnal, J O’Muircheartaigh. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Optimising Nutrition During Neonatal Therapeutic Hypothermia In The United Kingdom: An Observational Study Using Propensity Score Matching
Dusha Jeyakumaran; Cheryl Battersby, Kayleigh Ougham; Jon Dorling; Shalini Ojha; Nicholas T Longford; Chris Gale. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Cerebrovascular And Cardiovascular Responses To Cardio-Respiratory Events In Preterm Infants During The Transitional Period.
Silvia Martini, Luigi Corvaglia, Giulia Frabboni, Viviana Perrone, Marek Czosnyka, Peter Smielewski, Francesca Vitali, Arianna Aceti, Giacomo Faldella, Topun Austin. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Copy number variants and preterm birth: findings from the pilot Study of Preterm Infants and Neurodevelopment Genes (SPRING)
Hilary S Wong, Megan Wadon, Neena Modi, George Kirov, Michael O’Donovan, Anita Thapar. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Screening For Jaundice In Ghanaian Neonates By Smartphone Sclera Imaging
Felix Outlaw, Miranda Nixon, Terence S Leung, Nicola Robertson, Nana Okai Brako, Judith Meek, Christabel Enweronu-Laryea. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
These abstracts were presented as Poster Presentations at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Intracranial Haemorrhage In Term Infants Undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia
Elisa Smit, Richard Lee-Kelland, Sally Jary, Andrew Whitelaw, Frances Cowan, Marianne Thoresen. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Outcomes Of Surgical Necrotising Enterocolitis: Is It Time To Review The Rule Of Thirds?
Shazia P Sharif, Bethan Johnson, Rafdzah A. Zaki, Michael F. Hird, Simon R. Phelps. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Quality Of Informed Parental Consent In A Randomised Controlled Trial Of Hypothermia For Moderate/Severe Neonatal Encephalopathy
M Sebastean; M Babu; M Morales; I Prabhu; P Montaldo; P Ivain; I Jahan; T Chatuga; P Bandiya; J Mendoza; V Oliveira; N Benakappa; S Mangalabharathi; S Kamalaratnam; V Prakash; Sajid M; R Chandramohan; S Manerkar; J Mondkar; S Moni; M Shahidullah; R Rodrigo; A Sreelar; SB Peters; S Kumar; S Saritha; R Ajit; S Ramji; R Swamy; S Shankaran; S Thayyil. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Neonatal Network Facilitated Quality Improvements in The First Hour of Care: A Regional Experience
Paul Cawley, Ian Long, Claire O’Mara, Mark Dyke. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Uncovering Effects Of Preterm Birth On The Developing Brain Using Machine Learning And Mri
Adam Mainz, Maria Deprez. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Using Early Postnatal Growth In A Well-Grown Preterm Cohort To Generate Weight Centile Charts
Aneurin Young, Ed Andrews, James Ashton, Freya Pearson, R Mark Beattie, Mark J Johnson. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Growth Outcomes In Infants Undergoing Surgery For Spontaneous Intestinal Perforation
Annelies Mitchell, Melanie Drewett, Nigel J Hall, Freya Pearson, Mark Johnson. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Using An Early Onset Sepsis Calculator Reduces The Proportion Of Babies Receiving Antibiotics
Adam King, Laura Croucher, Charlotte Weeks, Mike Hall, Sarah Davidson. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
CRP and white blood cell count response in infants cooled for neonatal encephalopathy is sex dependent and related to neurodevelopmental outcome
Robb T, Sabir H, Jary S, Thoresen M, Chakkarapani E. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Effect Of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Intake On Growth And Clinical Outcomes In Preterm Infants On The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Miss Ffion Myfanwy Ridgway, Dr Mark Johnson. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Continuous Intra-Venous Vancomycin Infusions: Reduced rate of sub-therapeutic blood levels on clinical audit
Rosalind Howe, Paul Cawley, Mark Dyke. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Compromised Cerebral Oxygenation May Explain Worse Neurodevelopmental Outcome Seen In Infants With Necrotising Enterocolitis
Claire Howarth; Joan Morris; Jayanta Banerjee; Terence Leung; Simon Eaton; Narendra Aladangady. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
The Ex-Preterm Infant In Childhood (Epic) Study
Prior EL, Longford N, Emsley R, Gale C, Uthaya S, Modi N. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Enhanced rate of admission normothermia in extremely preterm newborn infants following implementation of continuous infant temperature monitoring in the delivery room
Paul Cawley, Lynn Jones, Paul Clarke, Priya Muthukumar. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
To Compare Transcutaneous Bilirubin With Total Serum Bilirubin In Preterm Neonates Receiving Phototherapy
Kushagra Chaudhari, Ruchi Nanavati. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Cardio-Respiratory Events In Preterm Infants During The First 72 Hours Of Life: Clinical Features And Impact Of Neonatal Characteristics.
Silvia Martini, Luigi Corvaglia, Giulia Frabboni, Paola Rucci, Silvia Galletti, Anna Giulia Cimatti, Giacomo Faldella, Topun Austin. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Timing of antenatal steroids in women presenting with suspected pre-eclampsia and the role of PlGF in targeting their use.
Paula Busuulwa, Kate Duhig, Paul T Seed, Andrew H Shennan, Lucy C Chappell. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.
Prediction Of Age At Scan And At Birth From Neonatal Structural Connectome With Deep Neural Networks
Y T.Benchekroun, D Christiaens, A Schuh, A Makropoulos, T Poppe, E Hughes, J Hutter, A Price, J-D Tournier, L Cordero-Grande, S Counsell, D Rueckert, J Hajnal, D Batalle, M Deprez, AD Edwards. Presented at the Neonatal Society 2019 Summer Meeting.