Neonatal Society Summer Meeting, 19th and 20th June 2025 University of Birmingham

Meeting Virtual Link: To be emailed to delegates on 18th June 2025 Thursday 19th June 2025

Session 1 Chairs: Chris Gale and Jon Dorling
10:00. Lucy Fullerton
Can vomit colour guide urgency of surgical decision making in term infants with bilious vomiting: A prospective observational cohort study

10:15. Katherine Pettinger
Hitting the target and missing the point with shortened courses of antenatal steroids: an observational study

10:45. Emily Prior
Preterm infants at term corrected age have increased total and regional adiposity compared to term born controls

11:00. Benjamin Clayden

Neonatal thalamic morphometry in preterm birth and congenital heart disease

11:15 Morning tea / coffee break (30 minutes)

Session 2 Chairs: Chris Gale and Sabita Uthaya
11:45 Inaugural Reynolds Shaw Lecture: Introduced by Prof David Edwards Professor Cally Tann, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Understanding and improving outcomes following perinatal brain injury in diverse contexts

12:45: Lunch Break (75 minutes)

Session 3 Chairs: Sabita Uthaya and Helen Budge
14:00. Lynne Kelly (presenting online)
Sex and immunological markers in neonatal encephalopathy: impact on MRI and neurodevelopment

14:15. Kevin Goss
The association between different surfactant dosing regimens and clinical outcomes in preterm infants with RDS in England; OPTI-SURF: a prospective matched-cohort study using real-world data

14:30. Sunil Manandhar (presenting online)
Injectable Paracetamol for patent ductus arteriosus closure in preterm infants in Nepal

14:45. Francesca Hogg-Robinson
Effect of weak sodium bicarbonate infusion compared to sodium chloride for arterial line infusions of extremely preterm babies

15:00. Afternoon tea / coffee break (30 minutes)

Session 4 Chairs: Andy Ewer and Shalini Ojha
15:30. Keynote Lecture
Professor Colm O’Donnell, University College Dublin Advancing evidence-based practice in the delivery room

16:30. Close of day 1
1900: Conference dinner at Edgbaston Park hotel

Friday 20th June 2025

Session 1 Chair: Chris Gale and Shalini Ojha 09:30. T’ng Kwok: Young Investigator Award

10:00. Tizard Lecture
Professor Nikki Robertson, University College London / University of Edinburgh Translating neuroprotection from bench to bedside

11:00. Morning tea / coffee break (30 minutes)

Session 2 Chairs: Helen Budge and Andy Ewer
11:30. HL Turner
Early cerebral oxygenation following inflammation-amplified hypoxia-ischaemia is associated with brain injury severity on MR spectroscopy in a newborn piglet model

11:45. George Maple
Caffeine citrate administration after hypoxia-ischaemia does not reduce brain injury in a newborn piglet model

12:00. Rebekah Smikle
Neonatal methylation-based predictors of childhood cognition

12:15. N Ranaei-Zamani
Gestational changes in placental oxygenation and metabolism monitored with near infrared spectroscopy

12:30 Lunch break (75 minutes)

Session 3 Chairs: Jon Dorling and Kevin Goss 13:45. Keynote lecture
Professor Shalini Ojha, University of Nottingham Feeding preterm babies: sooner the better?

14:45. Ourania Kaltsogianni
Optimising ventilation in preterms with closed-loop oxygen control: a randomised controlled trial

15:00. Megan Jones
A systematic review of the use of melatonin in premature infants

15:15. Megan Jones
A systematic review of the use of melatonin in babies with hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy

15:30. Claire Murphy
Real-world practices of surfactant administration in preterm infants in England: Insights from the OPTI-SURF study (2018-2021)

15:45. Afternoon tea / coffee break (30 minutes)

Session 4 Chairs: Chris Gale and Helen Budge
16:15. David Harvey Fellowship Lecture
Professor James Boardman, University of Edinburgh
The neuroscience of socioeconomic status: impacts on preterm infants

17:15 Close of meeting