Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 10 -18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ. Meeting virtual link will be emailed to delegates on 18th March 2026 

Session 1 

09:00. Anay Kulkarni
Effect of NAVA on lung and diaphragmatic ultrasound in extremely premature infants.

09:15. Sandeep Shetty

Randomised crossover trial of NAVA for neonates with CDH; the NAN-C study

09:30. Sandeep Shetty

What are normal diaphragmatic EDI peaks (EDIP) in newborn infants with respiratory distress? – a clinical correlation study.

09:45. Ceri Murphy
E1ect of Gestational Age on Clinical Outcomes in Preterm Infants with fetal growth restriction.

10:00. Yujing Ooi
Mortality and short-term outcomes of fetal growth restricted (FGR) infants born at ≤33 weeks gestational age from neonatal unit admission to discharge over 10 years.
10:15 Coffee Break (30 minutes)

Session 2 

10:45. Alexandra Duncan
Continuous glucose monitoring in neonatal intensive care in infants with dysglycaemia.

11:00. Alexandra Duncan
The role of continuous glucose monitoring in highlighting the challenges of glucose control in neonatal intensive care.

11:15. Lewis Saunders (online)
Normative values of left atrial reservoir strain in term and preterm neonates: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

11:30. Keynote Lecture
Professor Elaine Boyle, Professor of Neonatal Medicine and LCFC Professor in Child Health, University of Leicester.
Understanding and improving outcomes in moderate-late preterm and early term babies.

12:30. Lunch (60 minutes)

Session 3 

13:30. Reema Garegrat

Impact of a virtual training programme with an electronic screening system and real- time central support on recruitment to a time-sensitive clinical trial of cooling in mild neonatal encephalopathy (COMET).

13:45. Selena Das
Quantitative EEG for early Identification of mild hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in neonates following perinatal asphyxia.

14:00. Francesco Iaculli
Beyond cord pH: constitutional deviation as a marker of cumulative metabolic burden in perinatal asphyxia.

14:15.
Mahnoor Ali
The HEARD device: Early recognition and detection of fetal brain dysfunction.

14:30. Paolo Montaldo
Standardised neurological assessment with electronic decision support improves early and accurate diagnosis of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (hie) and reduces therapeutic drift of induced hypothermia.

14:45. Noah Pressler
Trends in the incidence of low-grade intraventricular haemorrhage amongst preterm babies: a national cohort study.

15:00. Coffee break (30 minutes)

Session 4
15:30. Rising Star Annual Invited Lecture

Dr Michelle Fernandes, University of Oxford
Profiling brain development over the first 1000 days to identify risk and develop interventions.

16:00. Alix Danis
Visual assessment of neonatal heart rate variability in newborn infants at risk of seizures.

16:15. Ilana Levene
LGBTQIA+ people’s priorities for lactation research in the UK – examination of a subset of responses to the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for LGBTQIA+ Perinatal Care

16:30. Sara Clohisey

Systems-level insights into bronchopulmonary dysplasia from meta-analysis of genome-scale studies

16:45. McCance Lecture-Introduced by Professor Chris Gale, President. Professor Eugene Dempsey, University College Cork

The importance of clinical research in neonatal care

17:45. Drinks reception