WEDNESDAY, MAY 23rd, 2018
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Louis Bont
14:10 – 14:40 Introduction – “The year in review”
Paolo Manzoni
Session 1 – BURDEN OF DISEASE
chairperson: Helen Chu
14:40 – 15:10 Update on the global perspective and impact of RSV in low-income
. countries in both women and children
Helen Chu
15:10 – 15:40 Respiratory Microbiome of the neonate
Debby Bogaert
15:40 – 16:10 Interactions between respiratory viruses and environmental
. pollutants: implications for the neonate and lung development
Stephania Cormier
16:10 – 16:30 Discussion Q&A
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30 Biomarkers of bacterial versus viral respiratory infection
Octavio Ramilo
17:30 – 18:00 RSV in otherwise healthy prematurely born infants –
. a forgotten majority
Bosco A. Paes
18:00 – 18:20 Discussion – Q & A
18:20 – 18:30 Closing remarks
Paolo Manzoni
Welcome cocktail and reception
THURSDAY, MAY 24TH, 2018
08:30 – 08:45 Opening remarks
Louis Bont
Session 2 – NOVEL THERAPEUTICS
chairperson: John De Vincenzo
08:45 – 09:15 Antiviral development and new options for the treatment of viral
. respiratory tract infection
John De Vincenzo
09:15 – 09:45 Vaccines against respiratory viruses
Pedro A. Piedra
09:45 – 10:15 Second generation monoclonal Antibodies
. Hasaan Jafri
10:15-10:30 Discussion – Q & A
10:30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
Session 3 – MANAGEMENT OF VIRAL LRTI
chairperson: Octavio Ramilo
11:00 – 11:30 Role of Lung ultrasound
Daniele De Luca
11:30 – 12:00 RSV & asthma
Louis Bont
12:00 – 12:30 Respiratory Support in bronchiolitis: trial evidence
Steve Cunningham
12:30 – 13:00 Follow-up and long-term respiratory function management of
prematurity
Eugenio Baraldi
13:00 – 13:20 Discussion – Q & A
13:20 – 13:30 Closing remarks
Louis Bont and Paolo Manzoni
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
*Since GEM 2018 Pre Conference Course is separated from the conference itself, its registration is not included in the congress fee.
CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
24/05/2018 – 26/05/2018
THURSDAY, MAY 24TH, 2018
15:00 – 16:00 Opening Ceremony and welcome coffee
SELECTED LECTURES
16:00 – 16:30 A new paradigm for neonatal research
TBD
16:30 – 17:00 BPD: can we agree on a definition?
Eduardo Bancalari
17:00 – 17:30 Less surfactant and less intubation: has this strategy improved
. neonatal outcomes? – a scientific debate
Alan Jobe vs. Nestor Vain
17:30 – 18:00 Q & A – ask the four experts!
New Science – Not yet published!
18:00 – 18:30 The Australian Placental Transfusion Study: first data out
. William Tarnow-Mordi
18:30 – 19:00 LIFT – The NHMRC Lactoferrin Infant Feeding Trial: first data out
. William Tarnow-Mordi
FRIDAY, MAY 25TH, 2018
RESPIRATORY MODULE
Chairperson: Eduardo Bancalari
09:00 – 09:30 Respiratory adaptation after birth, lung protection
Anton Van Kaam
09:30 – 10:10 Pulmonary hypertension in Preterm Infants
Robin Steinhorn
10:10 – 10:40 Challenge of apnea of prematurity
Richard J. Martin
10:40 – 11:00 Q & A – ask the experts!
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00 Is LISA necessary or “only” helpful or just a fashion?
Gianluca Lista
12:00 – 12:30 Respiratory instability and hypoxemia episodes in preterm infants
Eduardo Bancalari
12:30 – 12:50 Q & A – ask the experts!
12:50 – 14:30 LUNCH and POSTER WALK
UPDATES ON NEWBORN SCIENCE
Chairperson: Avroy Fanaroff
14:30 – 15:00 Resuscitation, delivery room care, golden minutes
Myra Wyckoff
15:00 – 15:30 Lactoferrin for the developing brain: A promising milk protein?
Stèphane Sizonenko
15:30 – 16:00 EPO and neuroprotection: an update
Petra Huppi
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 17:00 New ventilatory strategies: HFOV combined with VG
Manuel Sanchez Luna
17:00 – 17:30 Regenerative medicine: Mesenchymal stromal cells for
. complications of prematurity
Bernard Thebaud
17:30 – 17:40 Closing Remarks
. Avroy Fanaroff
SATURDAY, MAY 26TH, 2018
New Science – Platform presentation
chairperson: Nestor Vain
09:40 – 10:10 Surgery for congenital heart disease:
. improvements in outcomes
Gerard Martin
10:10 – 10:40 Delivery of fetal CHD patients
Mary T. Donofrio
10:40 – 11:10 COFFEE BREAK
NUTRITIONAL SESSION
chairperson: Hans van Goudoever
11:10 – 11:35 Diagnostics in NEC: New approaches
Tim de Meij
11:35 – 12:00 Prevention of NEC
Paolo Manzoni
12:00 – 12:25 Parenteral nutrition strategies
Hans van Goudoever
12:25 – 12:50 Enteral feeding strategies
Virgilio Carnielli
12:50 – 13:00 Q & A – Closing remarks
(*) pending confirmation
