- 4th March 2021
- Hybrid event: Virtual meeting with some limited opportunity for attendance at a socially distanced in person meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine, London
- 10:00 - 17:40
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5pm on Friday 18th October 2019
- KEY LECTURES
The McCance Lecture
Professor Deborah Lawlor, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol:
‘Early life determinants of cardiometabolic health; separating cause from association’
The Named Lecture
Professor Tim Nawrot, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium
‘The impact of pollution on perinatal development’
- PROGRAMME
Meeting Virtual Link: To be emailed to delegates on 3rd March 2021
10.30. P Clarke, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Vitamin K1 deficiency in exclusively human milk-fed preterm infants in early infancy
10.45. S Greenbury, Imperial College London
Patterns of postnatal weight gain in very and extremely preterm babies: a 12 year, whole population study
11:00. S Uthaya, Imperial College London
Early versus delayed initiation of parenteral nutrition after very preterm birth
Session 1: Chair – Professor Helen Budge. Moderator – Professor Lucy Chappell.
10:00. A Aiyengar, Homerton University Hospital
A systematic review of complaints received by neonatal units
10:15. W Alyahya, University of Glasgow
Early feeding with fortified mother’s own, donor milk and formula in very preterm infants
11:15. W Lammons, Imperial College London
Involving parents, patients and clinicians in the design of a UK national double-cluster pragmatic randomised controlled trial
11:30. Tea / coffee
Session 2: Chair – Professor Andy Ewer.
11:45 Keynote Lecture
Professor Tim Nawrot, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Belgium The impact of pollution on perinatal development
12:45. Lunch break
Session 3: Chair – Professor James Boardman. Moderator – Dr Kevin Goss.
13:45. M Fernandes, University of Southampton
The INTERGROWTH-21st Project International INTER-NDA standards for child development at two years of age: An International Prospective Population-based Study
14:00. A Bonthrone, King’s College London
Individual differences in brain development and cognitive outcome in infants with congenital heart disease
14:15. T Hurley, Trinity College Dublin
Melatonin alters systemic cytokine production in neonatal encephalopathy
14:30. V Ponnusamy, Queen Mary University of London
Apoptotic neuronal cell death in neonatal encephalopathy is regulated by the Hippo-YAP-let-7b axis
15:45. S Pregnolato, University of Bristol
Regulation of neuroinflammation and glutamate transport in a term newborn rat model of hypoxic- ischaemic brain injury
15:00. S Williams, Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Assessment of the repeatability and reliability of ultrasound measurement of the new-born corpus callosum and comparison with MRI
Session 4: Chair – Professor Karen Luyt. Moderator – Professor Andy Ewer.
15:30. E Wheater, University of Edinburgh
Association between preterm birth, differential DNA methylation and brain dysmaturation
15:45. O Rivero-Arias, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford
Neonatal health care cost of preterm babies born between 27-31 weeks in England: Retrospective analysis of a national birth cohort using the OPTI-PREM dataset
16:00. M Casacão, University College Cork
Early life oxygen dysregulation and gram-positive bacterial challenge in a neonatal rat model induces an inflammatory response but ventilatory control is maintained during normoxia
16:15. N Aiton, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Using 3D photography and imaging analysis to detect prenatal alcohol exposure
16:30. Prize for best presentation by a trainee
16:40. McCance Lecture – Introduced by Professor James Boardman, President
Professor Deborah Lawlor, MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol Early life determinants of cardiometabolic health; separating cause from association
17:40. Close of meeting