The Royal Women s Hospital presents Cool Topics in Neonatology 2013 when Thursday 7 & Friday 8 November 2013 8.30am 5.00pm where Basement Theatre The Spot Building The University of Melbourne 198 Berkeley Street Parkville, VIC 3052 Registration queries E admin.foundation@thewomens.org.au T (03) 8345 2954 Meeting enquiries Niki Stratis E niki.stratis@thewomens.org.au T (03) 8345 3763 Please register at www.thewomens.org.au/cooltopics2013 Sponsored by
The Speakers Professor Maximo Vento, WH Kitchen Scholar, 2013 Max is Director of the Neonatal Research Unit at the Health Research Institute La Fe in Valencia (Spain), and Division Chief at the Maternity Hospital of the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe (Valencia; Spain). His principal area of research is related to the role of oxygen in fetal life and neonatal transition under physiologic and pathologic conditions, especially asphyxia and resuscitation. His group is studying the role of oxygen free radicals and reactive oxygen species in the regulation of the redox status of cells, damaging potential, and as signaling molecules in biologic processes. Moreover, the group has been validating biomarkers of oxidative damage to monitor clinical interventions related with the administration of oxygen to preterm infants. Dr Vento is Vice-President of the Spanish Neonatal Society and President of the Research Committee of the Spanish Pediatric Association, and Director of the Spanish Neonatal Network (Health Institute Carlos III; Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness). Professor Richard Polin Rich is Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York and has been Director of the Division of Neonatology at Morgan Stanley Children s Hospital of New York- Presbyterian since 1998. After earning BA and MD degrees from Temple University, Dr. Polin completed a pediatric internship and residency at Children s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and a pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at Babies Hospital in NY. Temple University s Medical School named Dr. Polin its outstanding alumnus in 1995. In 1998, Dr. Polin returned to Morgan Stanley Children s Hospital of NY- Presbyterian as the Director of Neonatology and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. In 2005 he received the Physician of the Year Award both from the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center and the Morgan Stanley Children s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Division of Nursing. In the spring of 2006 Dr. Polin received the National Neonatal Education Award from the AAP s Section on Perinatal Pediatrics. Dr. Polin has published over 200 original papers, 20 books (including Fetal and Neonatal Physiology, Workbook in Practical Neonatology, Pediatric Secrets, Fetal and Neonatal Secrets, Current Pediatric Therapy, Pocket Neonatology) and more than 200 abstracts. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on the Fetus and Newborn, and is the chair-elect of the Sub-board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. Dr. Polin is the Chair of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network executive steering committee. Professor Colin Morley Colin was educated at the University of Cambridge and undertook his paediatric training in the UK. He was a Nuffield Research Fellow in Oxford where he developed artificial surfactant treatment for premature babies (ALEC) and organised randomised controlled trials. He was appointed a University Lecturer/Paediatrician in Cambridge in 1979. In May 1998, he was appointed Professor/Director of Neonatal Medicine at the Royal Women s Hospital and the Royal Children s Hospital Melbourne. Among many different topics his main research has been respiratory support and neonatal resuscitation. He has published over 290 research papers of which more than 90 are related to neonatal resuscitation. He retired in 2008 but still lectures, supervises research and writes papers. Nick is trained in general paediatrics and neonatology, mainly in the UK but also some time in Australia. He returned to Australia in 1991 to take up a staff specialist neonatologist position at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and University of Sydney. He has been Head of Department there since 2008. His main research interest has been in the use of ultrasound to study transitional cardiovascular haemodynamics in the preterm and sick term infant. He has been an advocate for the value of point of care ultrasound in the NICU. Since 2009, he has been leading an Australia-wide surveillance study into severe newborn jaundice. Ross Haslam Ross was the Head of the Neonatal Medicine Department at the Women s and Children s Hospital, part of the Children,Youth and Women s Health Network in SA from 1979 till 2011. He is a Clinical in both the Disciplines of Paediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Adelaide University. His particular research interests are in the area of development of gastro-oesophageal motility of the newborn, the newborn effects of maternal diabetes and investigator led clinical trials of therapies for the mother, the fetus and the neonate to improve long term outcome. Currently he is Chair of the Australian and NZ Neonatal Network, a member of the inaugural executive of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance and PSANZ Working Group of Clinical Trials. He is an author of over 150 scientific papers, book chapters and invited lectures related to the care of the newborn.
The Speakers Professor Peter Davis Peter is Professor/Director of Neonatal Medicine at the Royal Women s Hospital, Melbourne. He trained in Brisbane and Hamilton, Ontario and currently leads a team of enthusiastic researchers investigating techniques of resuscitation in the delivery room and ventilation in the Newborn Intensive and Special Care nurseries. He is a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and contributes extensively to the Cochrane Library. Dr Jennifer Dawson Jennifer joined the Royal Women s Hospital as a Neonatal Research Nurse in November 2005 and is Deputy Director of Newborn Research. She trained as a nurse in Canberra and as a midwife in Scotland. She completed a MN (Research) at the University of Sydney in 2003 and a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2010. Her research has led to over 50 publications with many incorporated in the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines for delivery room management of newly born infants. Her current work focuses on the use of pulse oximetry in the delivery room and how this technology can help us. Her post-doctoral work is supported by a four year National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship and by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Professor Stuart Hooper Stuart is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Ritchie Centre within Monash Institute of Medical Research at Monash University. He is a fetal and neonatal physiologist whose research focuses on fetal and neonatal lung development and its transformation into a functional gas-exchange organ at birth. Specifically, his research focuses on; (1) factors regulating normal and abnormal growth of the lung, (2) the cardiovascular and respiratory transition at birth and (3) how assisted ventilation of very preterm infants can be improved to avoid injury to the lungs and brain. Prof Hooper also leads a multi-disciplinary research team that has pioneered the use of phase-contrast X-ray imaging to image the entry of air into the lungs at birth. Dr Brett Manley Brett is a Consultant Neonatologist in Melbourne, who has completed a PhD on the use of high-flow nasal cannulae (HFNC) for respiratory support of preterm infants. His research centred around a multicentre, randomised trial of HFNC vs nasal CPAP for post-extubation support of very preterm infants. Peter Anderson Peter is a psychologist and Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and the University of Melbourne. He is Director of the Victorian Infant Brain Studies (VIBeS) team and co-director of the Australian Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies (AC-CNS), which is the leading centre for paediatric neuropsychological research in Australia. Dr Anderson is interested in the cognitive development of children, and for the past 10 years he has focussed on understanding the mechanisms underlying cognitive and learning problems in children born very preterm. He is involved in observational outcome studies, longitudinal neuroimaging studies, and numerous randomised controlled trials assessing the long-term benefits and consequences of a range of obstetric, perinatal, and developmental interventions. Dr Graeme Polglase Graeme is a Senior Scientist at the Monash Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne and is also a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. Graeme has rapidly become one of the leading early career researchers in the field of perinatal physiology. His research focus is on the cardiopulmonary and cerebral circulatory transition at term and preterm birth, and how environmental and clinical influences can adversely alter this transition. He has published over 60 publications in the past five years in leading journals, and has been cited over 500 times. He has been invited to present his work over 20 times at national and international meetings, and three of his manuscripts are cited in the International Liaison Committee Resuscitation Guidelines (2010). Dr Polglase has received over two million dollars in research grant and fellowship funding in the past five years, with the impact and quality of his research being rewarded by the award of an NHMRC career development fellowship (2012 2015).
The Speakers Dr Michael Stewart Michael has been the Medical Director of NETS for the past 13 years and maintains a role as a neonatologist in NICU at the Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne and in the Fetal Management Outpatients Clinic at the Royal Women s Hospital. His interests are in retrieval medicine, fetal anomalies and quality improvement, as well as how to avoid management by crisis through anticipation and systems engineering. You are strongly advised not to talk to him on a Monday after a Geelong loss. Jeanie Cheong Jeanie is a Neonatal Paediatrician with expertise in neonatal neurology, neuroimaging and long term follow up. She is based at the Royal Women s Hospital and is lead clinician in the Growth and Development clinic. She is a co-investigator of several research groups, namely the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study and the Victorian Infant Brain studies groups based at the Murdoch Children s Research Institute. She is the lead investigator on an NHMRC-funded study looking at long term neurodevelopmental outcomes and brain structural changes following late preterm birth. Dr Gehan Roberts Gehan is a Developmental-Behavioural paediatrician, based at the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children s Hospital in Melbourne, and an NHMRC post-doctoral fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. He completed his clinical fellowship in child development at the Boston Children s Hospital. He has a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University and a PhD in the field of child development from the University of Melbourne. Gehan coordinates the Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health. His research interests include the long term outcomes of preterm birth, intervention trials for children at risk of learning and developmental difficulties and health services research in the secondary care sector. Ms Rose Boland Rose is a neonatal nurse who completed obstetric training and a Master of Neonatal Nursing in Sydney. She has worked as a Statewide Nurse Educator with the Newborn Emergency Transport Service, Victoria since 2000. She is also a full time PhD student at the University of Melbourne. Rose has a special interest in translating neonatal resuscitation research into clinical practice and is the content developer for the NeoResus site: www.neoresus.org.au. Rose s PhD research is investigating the risk factors for the increased mortality rates seen in extremely preterm infants born in non-tertiary hospitals in Victoria. Frances Thomson-Salo Frances worked at the Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne for nearly 20 years before joining the Royal Women s Hospital. She works as an infant mental health consultant in NISC and aims to help translate the knowledge gained in the infant mental health developmental and neuroscience fields to the care of infants and their families and the staff in NISC. Dr Joyce O Shea Joyce is a Research Fellow at the Royal Women s Hospital. She trained in Ireland and moved to Melbourne in 2009. She has been part of the Newborn Research team at the Women s for nearly three years and is currently completing an MD through the University College Cork, Ireland. This is made up of a series of studies looking at different areas of neonatal resuscitation, the largest being a randomised controlled trial looking at videolaryngoscopy as an intubation training tool. In 2011 her daughter Erin was born at 26 weeks gestation and weighed 840g. She is now a delightful two year old. In 2014 Joyce will take up a position as consultant neonatologist at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Thursday 7 November Time Topic Speaker 730 820 Registration 820 830 Welcome Peter Davis 830 900 Oxygen in the DR: Understanding the science Max Vento 900 930 Oxygen in the DR: Translating the science into clinical practice Jennifer Dawson 930 1000 Ventilation in the Delivery Room Stuart Hooper 1000 1030 Panel discussion and questions Panel 1030 1100 Morning tea 1100 1130 Pathogenesis and prevention of NEC Rich Polin 1130 1200 Feeding the small for gestational age infant Max Vento 1200 1230 Recent advances in neonatal sepsis Rich Polin 1230 1330 Lunch 1330 1400 High flow nasal cannulae treatment, is this the new CPAP? Colin Morley 1400 1430 High flow implementing the evidence Brett Manley 1430 1500 The role of neonatal services in the early detection of congenital heart disease. 1500 1530 Afternoon tea 1530 1600 Gender differences and postnatal adaptation Max Vento 1600 1630 Gender and neurobehavioural outcomes in very preterm children Peter Anderson 1630 1700 Nature or Nurture which is the greater influence on long-term outcomes? Lex Doyle 1700 Close
Friday 8 November Time Topic Speaker 730 830 Registration 830 900 Do we really have evidence that the preterm patent ductus arteriosus doesn t matter? 900 930 Improving the cardiovascular transition at birth Graeme Polglase 930 1000 Respiratory support in non-tertiary centres a neonatal retrievalist s perspective Michael Stewart 1000 1030 Morning tea 1030 1100 Brain size in extremely preterm 18-year-olds does it matter? Jeanie Cheong 1100 1130 Is severe hyperbilirubinaemia and kernicterus still a problem in Australia? 11300 1200 From NICU to NAPLAN: how can we help preterm children to learn? Gehan Roberts 1200 1300 Lunch 1300 1330 1330 1400 The tyranny of distance: A 20 year review of perinatal outcomes following outborn birth Respecting the baby as a person: what might follow from this approach? Rose Boland Frances Salo 1400 1430 The Flip Side Neonatologist to NICU mum Joyce O Shea 1430 1500 Communication in High Risk Perinatology Ross Haslam 1500 1530 Afternoon tea 1530 1600 Oxygen targeting in NICU Peter Davis 1600 1630 CPAP and RDS: Are we finally on the path to enlightenment? Rich Polin 1630 1700 After 33 years of surfactant treatment what are we doing? Colin Morley 1700 Close D13-108 September