Submission deadline 5 pm on 22nd May 2022.
- KEY LECTURES
Keynote Lecture
Prof Karel Allegaert, KU Leuven, Belgium:
‘Challenges of evaluating medicines in neonates’
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Prof Saul Faust:
‘Treating and preventing complications of paediatric and neonatal COVID-19’
THE DAVID HARVEY FELLOWSHIP LECTURE
Prof Joy Lawn, LSHTM:
’30 million vulnerable newborns: high impact science and care gaps to close’
TIZARD LECTURE
Prof Arjan te Pas, University of Leiden, The Netherlands:
‘Advances in neonatal stabilisation and resuscitation’
- Further details coming soon
- PROGRAMME
Thursday 23rd June
9.30 Registration, coffee and exhibits
SESSION 1
9:55 Welcome
10:00 Ourania Kaltsogianni: A randomised crossover study of closed loop automated oxygen control in ventilated infants born at or near term
10:15 Emily van Blankenstein: Neonatal outcomes of babies born at 22-24 weeks gestation in England and Wales 2017-2020
10:30 Reena Bhatt: Recombinant surfactant protein D: a potential therapy in infants at high risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia
10:45 Aneurin Young: Protein intake is critically important to the early growth of very preterm infants
11:00 Tea break and exhibits
11:30 Keynote Lecture: Professor Karel Allegaert, KU Leuven, Belgium
Challenges of evaluating medicines in neonates
12:30 Lunch and exhibits
SESSION 2
14:00 Karen Luyt: The contribution of newborn illness to child mortality
14:15 Janine Abramson: Trends in caffeine use in very preterm infants and association between early caffeine use, preterm brain injury, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia
14:30 Tim van Hasselt: Examining transfers of preterm infants from neonatal units to paediatric intensive care in England 2008-2018
14:45 Sena Jawad: Improving the design of neonatal clinical trials using routinely collected data
15:00 Don Sharkey: Developing novel microbial biofilm-inhibiting polymer coated neonatal devices to reduce nosocomial infections: an in-vitro study using Candida albicans
15:15 Tea break and exhibits
15:45 David Harvey Fellowship Lecture: Professor Joy Lawn, LSHTM
30 million vulnerable newborns: high impact science and care gaps to close
16:45 Close of day
Friday 24th June
9:30 Registration, coffee and exhibits
SESSION 3
9:55 Welcome
10:00 Charlotte Hanratty: There is no link between Birth Weight and Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
10:15 Ahmed Ali: Histone acetylation changes in human placenta of mothers’ with preeclampsia
10:30 Sarah Sturrock: NeoMiniGut: preliminary results of a novel technique to create neonatal gut organoids
10:45 Melissa-Sue Ryan: Feasibility of using a parent-report questionnaire for two-year neurodevelopmental follow-up in infants born at 30-34 weeks’ gestational age
11:00 Tea break and exhibits
11:30 Keynote Lecture: Professor Saul Faust, University of Southampton Treating and preventing complications of paediatric and neonatal COVID-19
12:30 Lunch, exhibits
SESSION 4
14:00 Young Investigator Lecture 2022: Dr James Webbe, Imperial College London
14:45 Paul Cawley: Point-of-care ultra-low field neonatal magnetic resonance T1 mapping – a novel candidate biomarker for the developing brain
15:00 Samantha Sadoo: Magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy of neonates with encephalopathy in Uganda: feasibility, acceptability and findings
15:15 Raymand Pang: Complementary regional neuroprotection of melatonin and azithromycin following inflammation-amplified hypoxia-ischaemia in newborn piglets
15:30 Qiaochu Wu: Cerebellar volume, microstructure, and functional outcome in early school-age children without cerebral palsy cooled for hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
15:45 Tea break and exhibits
16:15 Prize-giving – best oral presentation and best poster by trainees
16:20 The Tizard Lecture: Professor Arjan te Pas, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Advances in neonatal stabilisation and resuscitation
17:20 Close of Meeting