Submission deadline for Spring Meeting 2023 is 5pm GMT on 10th Feb 2023
- KEY LECTURES
Keynote Lecture
- Professor Sam Johnson: Interventions to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born preterm
THE McCANCE LECTURE
- Professor John Cryan: The neonatal microbiome, gut, brain axis: implications for lifelong health
The Rising Star Annual Invited Lecture will be given by Dr Rebecca Gentek: The intrauterine environment, immune development and health and disease in later life
- Further details coming soon
- PROGRAMME
Spring Meeting, 10th March 2023
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
Meeting Virtual Link: To be emailed to delegates on 9th March 2023
08:45. Tea/Coffee
Session 1
09:15. Rupa Rubinstein
Fathers’ experiences of family integrated care (FICare) in the neonatal unit, a systematic review
09:30. Topun Austin
Developing a digital support tool for the families of babies being cared for in neonatal units
09:45. David Wertheim
Changes in blood oxygen saturations associated with seizures in term babies
10:00. Vinita Verma
Impact of neonatal seizures on brain temperature in a preclinical model
10:15. Tea / coffee
Session 2
10:45. James Webbe
Primary outcomes in neonatal trials: hertrogeneity, gaps and how to strengthen reporting
11:00. Emily Prior
Childhood body composition following preterm birth: a systematic review and meta-analysis
11:15. Jessica Burgess-Shannon
Outcomes following the introduction of standard parenteral nutrition in preterm infants: A whole population non-concurrent control study
11:30. Kadi Vaher
Neonatal gut microbiota and brain dysmaturation in preterm infants
11:45. Keynote Lecture
Prof Samantha Johnson, Professor of Child Development, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Interventions to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born preterm
12:45. Lunch break (90 minutes)
Session 3
14:15. Ela Chakkarapani
Heart rate variability during cuddling encephalopathic infants undergoing therapeutic hypothermia and intensive care
14:30. Lancelot Jamie Millar
Hypoglycaemia in Neonates with Moderate-to-Severe Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE) undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia
14:45. Isabell Nessel
Neonates with Substantial Brain Injury After Therapeutic Hypothermia for Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Have Decreased Omega-3 Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
15:00. Arthur Spencer
School-age children cooled for neonatal encephalopathy without cerebral palsy retain healthy resting-state static and dynamic functional connectivity
15:15. Katie McKinnon
Integrated analysis of preterm birth and socioeconomic status with neonatal brain structure
15:30. Afternoon Tea / Coffee
Session 4
16:00. Rising Star Annual Invited Lecture
Dr Rebecca Gentek, Chancellor’s Fellow & Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh
The intrauterine environment, immune development, and disease in later life
16:30. Federica Amati
Infant body composition and long-term health outcomes: as systematic review and gap analysis
16:45. Tilly Pillay
Place of preterm births at 27-31weeks: mortality and morbidity outcomes from OPTIPREM
Session 5
17:00. Prize for best presentation by a trainee
17:10. McCance Lecture – Introduced by Professor Andy Ewer, President
Prof John Cryan, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience / Vice President for Research & Innovation, University College Cork
The neonatal microbiome: gut-brain axis: implications for lifelong health
18:10. Close of meeting