- 29th - 30th June 2023
- Hybrid event: The Neonatal Society Summer Meeting 2023 will be a hybrid meeting, with in-person attendees at the University of Bristol and welcomes online attendees from around the world.
- 09.00 - 17.30 BST
Tizard lecture was given by Prof Caroline Crowther, University of Auckland “Antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: building evidence from experimental medicine, imaging, trials, and metanalysis”
David Harvey Lecture was given by Prof Jennifer Zeitlin Senior Research Scientist, INSERM Paris “The future of federated research for improving the health of children born preterm”
Keynote lecture was given by Dr Ronit Pressler UCL “The development and assessment of novel therapies for the treatment of neonatal seizures”
Keynote lecture was given by Prof George Davey Smith, University of Bristol “Strengthening causal inference in antenatal and neonatal epidemiology”
The Young Investigator Lecture was given by Dr Qian Yang, University of Bristol “Individual and joint effects of chronotype and sleep patterns on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes”
Best Presentation by a Trainee: Dr T’ng Kwok
Best Presentation by a Consultant: Dr Claire Howarth
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6pm on Tuesday 30th May 2023
Submission deadline 5 pm on 11th February 2022.
- Further details coming soon
- PROGRAMME
Thursday 29th June 2023
9:30 Registration, coffee and exhibits
SESSION 3
9:55 Welcome
10:00 Ceri Murphy: Umbilical doppler patterns of flow in-utero affect the risk of necrotising enterocolitis in fetal growth restricted preterm infants
10:15 Claire Howarth: The effect of haemoglobin and red blood cell transfusion on gut perfusion and injury in preterm infants
10:30 Ceri Murphy: The impact of fetal growth restriction on cerebral and gut oxygenation using near infrared spectroscopy
10:45 Hannah Edwards: Antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: use in England, Scotland, and Wales 2014-2022
11:00 Tea break and exhibits
11:30 Keynote Lecture: Dr Ronit Pressler, UCL
“The development and assessment of novel therapies for the treatment of neonatal seizures”
12:30 Lunch and exhibits
SESSION 2
14:00 Keynote Lecture: Prof George Davey Smith, University of Bristol
“Strengthening causal inference in antenatal and neonatal epidemiology”
15:00 Tim van Hasselt: Examining neonatal morbidity and paediatric intensive care admission following neonatal discharge – using national linked datasets
15:15 Georgina Yan: Appraisal of the usefulness of the 2022 NICHD bronchopulmonary dysplasia outcome estimator in a UK single-centre extremely preterm cohort
15:30 David Odd: The contributor and causes of death after neonatal illness
15:45 Tea break and exhibits
16:15 David Harvey Fellowship Lecture: Professor Jennifer Zeitlin, INSERM Paris
“The future of federated research for improving the health of children born preterm”
17:15 Close of day
Friday 30th June 2023
9:30 Registration, coffee and exhibits
SESSION 3
9:55 Welcome
10:00 Alexandra Bonthrone: Impaired attentional antecedents of executive functions in toddlers with congenital heart disease: an eye-tracking study
10:15 Raymond Pang: Melatonin reduces brain injury following inflammation-amplified hypoxia ischaemia in a newborn piglet model relevant to low resource settings
10:30 Bec Jackson: Impact of antenatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure on developmental outcomes within 12 months of age: a meta-analysis
10:45 Carlos Sillero Rejon: The economic impact of antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: use in England, Scotland, and Wales 2014-2022
11:00 Tea break and exhibits
11:30 Chris Gale: Establishing the safety of waterbirth for mothers and babies: The POOL observational cohort study
11:45 David Chong: Detection and quantitative analysis of patient-ventilator interactions in ventilated infants by convolutional neural networks
12:00 T’ng Chang Kwok: Network variation of postnatal dexamethasone use and BPD severity across England and Wales in infants born <28 weeks of gestation: a population- based study
12:15 Peter Fleming: Unexpected and unexplained deaths in ex-preterm infants: how effectively are we getting parents to implement safe sleep practices?
12:30 Lunch and exhibits
SESSION 4
14:00 Young Investigator Lecture 2023: Dr Qian Yang, University of Bristol “Individual and joint effects of chronotype and sleep patterns on pregnancy and perinatal outcomes”
14:45 Kerry Woolfall: Timing of Stoma Closure in Neonates (ToSCiN) – a mixed methods feasibility study
15:00 Adam Smith-Collins: TRANSFER: ThReatened preterm birth, Assessment for in utero transfer; 22+0-23+6 weeks’ gestation
15:15 Don Sharkey: Novel polymer coating of nasogastric tubes to inhibit microbial biofilm formation in an in-vitro model
15:30 Tea break and exhibits
16:00 Prize-giving – best oral presentation by trainees
16:10 The Tizard Lecture: Professor Caroline Crowther, University of Auckland “Antenatal magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: building evidence from experimental medicine, imaging, trials, and metanalysis”
17:10 Close of Meeting
Submission deadline 5 pm on 11th February 2022.
- KEY LECTURES
Keynote Lecture
Dr David MacIntyre, Reader in Reproductive Systems Medicine, Imperial College London:
THE McCANCE LECTURE
Prof David FitzPatrick, Professor and Consultant in Paediatric Genetics, Group Head MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh:
‘Paediatric genomics: new methods for diagnosing rare disease in infants’
The inaugural Rising Star Annual Invited Lecture will be given by Dr Harry Leitch Academic Clinical Lecturer in Genetics & Medical Research Council Investigator, Imperial College London: ‘Pluripotent stem cell disease modelling approaches in acutely unwell neonates’
- Further details coming soon