Scientific Information

Organising Institutions

The European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR) has been at the forefront of Paediatric medical care and innovation since 1958. As one of the oldest and most prolific Paediatric research societies in Europe, its activities are organised according to three pillars:

1. The ten sections representing different Paediatric sub-specialties fostering the publication of research and guidelines;
2. The European School of Neonatology (ESN) acting as the society’s educational arm and implementing a wide range of educational activities.
3. The European Board of Neonatal Child Health Research (EBNCHR) that periodically reviews the European Training Requirements (ETR) in Neonatology and provides leadership in the context of child health research policy and funding.

The ESPR co-organises large-scale annual conferences, supports investigators with research grants, runs a mentoring programme and disseminates cutting-edge findings through its Springer-Nature journal Pediatric Research, amongst others.

Mission: Developing and applying research to improve newborn and child health.

The European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) is the first pan-European organisation and network to represent the interests of preterm and newborn infants and their families. It brings together parents, healthcare experts from different disciplines, and scientists with the common goal of improving long-term health of preterm and newborn children. EFCNI’s vision is to ensure the best start in life for every baby.

The mission of the Union of European Neonatal & Perinatal Societies (UENPS) is to improve healthcare in the neonatal and perinatal medicine in the European countries. Main goals of UENPS are to improve quality in perinatal and neonatal care by integrating, coordinating and adding national and scientific societies’ efforts, to promote the knowledge of the perinatal indicators and to develop recommendations, guidelines, training of the healthcare providers and any other tool to achieve the best healthcare for every newborn and surveillance of neonatal rights wherever they are born.

Following on UENPS’ mission, a division named “UENPS Hall of Knowledge” has been established in 2019. Its aim is to gather all experiences and cultural activities developed throughout the years and offer a wider educational approach to the hot topics of neonatology.

Congress Committees

Executive Committee
 

Scientific Committee

 
 

Scientific Programme

08:30-16:05

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘Nutrition in early life’
in collaboration with the IPOKRaTES Foundation

Coordinators: Mark Johnson, United Kingdom; Miguel Saenz de Pipaon, Spain

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-12:00

Pre-Congress Course: Moving from evidence-to-decision in Neonatology

Coordinators: Roger Soll, United States; Souvik Mitra, Canada

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-17:00

Pre-Congress Course: NEVAT course on neonatal vascular access

Coordinators: Eirik Nestaas, Norway, Fiammetta Piersigilli, Belgium

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

14:00-17:00

Pre-Congress Course: Neonatal Non-invasive Ventilation

Coordinators: Corrado Moretti, Camilla Gizzi

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-16:00

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘Delivery Room Management’

Coordinators: Arjan te Pas, The Netherlands; Colm O'Donnell, Ireland

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-17:00

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘Neonatologist performed echocardiography - A theoretical and practical introduction’ (Limited to 40 participants)

Coordinators: Silvia Martini, Italy; Kasper Kyng, Denmark; Eirik Nestaas, Norway

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-17:00

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘Mechanical ventilation’

Coordinator: Bernard Barzilay, Israel

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-16:30

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘Neonatal Pain Management’

Coordinators: Sinno Simons, the Netherlands; Giacomo Cavallaro, Italy;
Gerbrich van den Bosch, The Netherlands
(on behalf of the ESPR Special Interest Group Neonatal Pain)

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-17:00

ESN Pre-Congress Course ‘A new look at outcome’ (Limited to 32 participants)

Coordinators: Neil Marlow, UK; James Boardman, UK; Deirdre Murray, Ireland

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

09:00-16:00

Pre-Congress EFCNI Course: Partnering with parents: How can parents become partners in the care of their infants

Coordinator: Silke Mader

VIEW COURSE PROGRAMME

17:30-19:00

Plenary Session 1 - Opening Ceremony

OPENING CEREMONY

Chairs: Charles C. Roehr, United Kingdom; Silke Mader, Germany; Corrado Moretti, Italy

17:30-18:00

jENS Awards

18:00-18:20

TBD

TBD

18:20-18:30

Discussion

18:30-18:50

Speak on global paediatric / newborn health

Carlo Giaquinto, Italy

18:50-19:00

Discussion

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 1: BRAIN 1 - Neuromonitoring

Chairs: Ana Alarcon, Spain; Jeroen Dudnik, the Netherlands

09:00-09:30

Computational tracking of functional brain age in preterm infants

Sampsa Vanhatalo, Finland

09:30-10:00

Automated EEG background analysis in hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy

John O’Toole, Ireland

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 2: LUNG 1 - Invasive and non-invasive ventilation of the newborn

Chairs: Wes Onland, the Netherlands; Sarah Kotecha, UK

09:00-09:30

Volume guarantee during CMV and HFO

Anton van Kaam, the Netherlands

09:30-10:00

Targeting arterial oxygen saturation in preterm infants – what to aim for and how to achieve it - is closed-loop automated oxygen control the solution?

Peter Dargaville, Australia

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 3: NUTRITION 1 - Nutrition and preterm infant outcome

Chairs: Magnus Domellöf, Sweden, Sissel Moltu, Norway

09:00-09:30

Human milk as immune booster

Hans van Goudoever, the Netherlands

09:30-10:00

Strategies to promote breatmilk in ELBW

Gitte Zachariassen, Denmark

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 4: PHARMA 1 - Why neonatal pharmacology?

Chairs: Karel Allegaert, Belgium; Sezin Unal, Turkey

09:00-09:30

How to use drugs in neonates: the role of clinical pharmacology

John van der Anker, United States

09:30-10:00

New drug opportunities in the NICU

Sinno Simons, the Netherlands

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 5: EPIDEMIOLOGY 1 - Inequaties in newborn health care

Chairs: Jennifer Zeitlin, France; Hannah Blencowe, United Kingdom

09:00-09:30

The burden of fetal growth restriction and preterm birth in low and middle income coun-tries

Hannah Blencowe, United Kingdom

09:30-10:00

Malaria in pregnancy and its effect on fetal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa

Valérie Briand, France

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 6: EFCNI 1 - Ethical aspects around new technologies and research trials

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Luc Zimmermann, the Netherlands

09:00-09:30

The ethics of new technologies

Dominic Wilkinson, UK

09:30-10:00

Patient involvement in neonatal research and new technologies

Aisling Walsh country, Germany

10:00-11:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30

Plenary Session 2: jENS FOR WOMEN & DIVERSITY

Chairs: Sandra Horsch, Germany; Manon Benders, the Netherlands

11:30-12:00

How to achieve gender equality in leadership positions: don’t try to fix the women - fix the system

Christian Berg, Sweden

12:00-12:30

Gender inequities and racism in health care

Marceline Tutu van Furth, the Netherlands

12:30-13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30-15:00

5 POSTER SESSIONS

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 7: LUNG 2 - BPD

Chairs: Gianluca Lista, Italy; Kerstin Jost, Sweden

15:00-15:30

Prediction models

Matt Laughon, United States

15:30-16:00

Enose-for detecting BPD

Wes Onland, the Netherlands

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 8: BRAIN 2 - Neuroimaging

Chairs: Manon Benders, the Netherlands, Luca Ramenghi, Italy

15:00-15:30

Imaging and outcome of fossa posterior abnormalities in preterm infants

Sylke Steggerda, the Netherlands

15:30-16:00

What is the best MRI scorings system for longterm outcome in HIE?

Lauren Weeke, the Netherlands

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 9: CIRCULATION 1 - Multimodal evaluation of shock in the NICU

Chairs: Bernhard Schwaberger, Austria; Patrick McNamara, United States

15:00-15:30

Methods for assessing shock in the NICU

Erik Nestaas, Norway

15:30-16:00

Integrating multimodal surveillance and clinical signs in the clinical work

Elisabeth Kooi, the Netherlands

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 10: NUTRITION 2 - Effects of nutrition therapy

Chairs: Alexandre Lapillonne, France; Silvia Iacobelli, France

15:00-15:30

Effects of nutrition therapy on growth, inflammation and metabolism in immature infants

Sissel Moltu, Norway

15:30-16:00

Efficacy and Safety of Enteral Recombinant Human Insulin in Preterm Infants

Miguel Saenz de Pipaon, Spain

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 11: ESPR nursing and healthcare professionals - Sweet dreams

Chairs: Agnes van den Hoogen, the Netherlands; Esra Ardahan Akgül, Turkey

15:00-15:30

The benefit of neonatal EEG to improve sleep

Mary Ann Ryan, Ireland

15:30-16:00

The role of music interventions in sleep promotion

Jos Latour, United Kingdom

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 12: EFCNI 2 - The goldern hour and patient safety

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Luc Zimmermann, the Netherlands

15:00-15:30

Keeping the baby warm - thermoregulation

Lukas Mileder, Austria

15:30-16:00

Delayed cord clamping

Heike Rabe, UK

16:00-16:30

Kangaroo Mother Care/Skin-to-skin directly after birth – even with a very sick and preterm baby

Stina Klemming, Sweden

16:30-17:00

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

17:00-17:30

COFFEE BREAK

17:30-18:30

Plenary Session 3: BENGT ROBERTSON AWARD

Chairs: Anton van Kaam, the Netherlands; Willem de Boode, the Netherlands

09:00-10:30

Plenary Session 4 - YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PRIZE SESSION
in honour of late Prof. Henry L. Halliday – introduction by Prof. Ola Saugstad, Norway

Chairs: Charles C. Roehr, United Kingdom; Petra Hüppi, Switzerland

10:30-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 13: BRAIN 5 - Epigenetics and Brain development

Chairs: Deirdre Murray, Ireland; Monica Fumagalli, Italy

11:00-11:30

Epigenetics and the preterm brain

James Boardman, United Kingdom

11:30-12:00

The role of epigenetics in neurodevelopmental disorders

Jonathan Mill, United Kingdom

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 14: LUNG 3 - Cross talk

Chairs: Barbara Schmidt, Canada; Oliver Baud, Switzerland

11:00-11:30

The lung and the gut

Sarah Kotecha, UK

11:30-12:00

The lung and the brain

MJ Dahl, USA

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 15: CIRCULATION 2 - Time to integrate NIRS in neonatal care?

Chairs: Elisabeth Kooi, the Netherlands; Bernhard Schwaberger, Austria

11:00-11:30

Cerebral NIRS in the delivery room

Bernhard Schwaberger, Austria

11:30-12:00

Cerebral NIRS in the NICU

Mathias Lühr Hansen, Denmark

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

11:00-12:30

PARALLEL SESSION 16 - EPIDEMIOLOGY 2 Epidemiology and HIE

Chairs: Deirdre Murray, Ireland; Jennifer Zeitlin, France

11:00-11:30

The Epidemiology of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in the era of therapeutic hypo-thermia Results from the French national population-based cohort of infants with moder-ate and severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (LyTONEPAL Study)

Thierry Debillon, France

11:30-12:00

Prediction of outcomes and prognosis in infants with hypoxia ischemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia

Waldemar A. Carlo, United States

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 17: EFCNI 3 - How can we improve preterm infant nutrition and feeding?

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Mark Johnson, United Kingdom

11:00-11:30

How, when and what kind of fortification is needed to ensure an optimal growth and long-term development – what is the evidence?

Magnus Domellöf, Sweden

11:30-12:00

How to inform and involve parents in nutrition pathways

Luc Zimmermann, the Netherlands

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

11:00-12:30

Parallel Session 18 - Perinatal CMV infection

Chairs: Ana Alarcon, Spain; Eleanor Molloy, Ireland

11:00-11:30

Transmission of cytomegalovirus from mother's own milk to very preterm infants

Chris van den Akker, the Netherlands

11:30-12:00

Pros and cons for routine screening for CMV during pregnancy

George Daskalakis, Greece

12:00-12:30

Oral Communications (2x15 minutes)

12:30-13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30-14:30

5 POSTER SESSIONS

14:30-16:30

WORKSHOP 1: Care of the tiny infant

Panel discussion about everything around the care of extremely pretrem infants <25 weeks gestation
Richard Sindelar, Sweden; Angela Kribs, Germany; Charles C. Roehr, UK

14:30-14:40

Short introduction

Richard Sindelar, Sweden

14:40-15:00

The proactive approach to mother-infant dyads at 22-24 weeks of gestation - Perspectives from a Swedish center"

Johan Ågren, Sweden

15:00-15:20

The proactive approach to mother-infant dyads at 22-24 weeks of gestation - Perspectives from a Japanese center"

Hidehiko Nakanishi, Japan

15:20-15:40

The proactive approach to mother-infant dyads at 22-24 weeks of gestation - Perspectives from a German center"

Angela Kribs, Germany

15:40-16:00

The most immature infants - what evidence is there and what's next?"

Keith Barrington, Canada

16:00-16:30

Time for discussion including a panel with all speakers

Charles Roehr, United Kingdom/ Richard Sindelar, Sweden

14:30-16:30

WORKSHOP 2: How to improve the quality of care/ safety on your unit

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Jens Schwindt, Austria

Error management and how to manage and evaluate the reporting

Jens Schwindt, Austria

Developing a blame free culture / or: Developing a valuing communication culture

Eva Schwindt, Austria

Using quality indicators

James Webbe

14:30-16:30

WORKSHOP 3: From Image to Insights: Neonatal Neuroimaging for Outcome Prediction

Expert Panel: Manon Benders, the Netherlands, Luca Ramenghi, Italy, Sandra Horsch, Germany, Jeroen Dudink, the Netherlands

Enhance your neuroimaging skills (CUS and MRI) and explore the fascinating world of neonatal brain injury. Through active participation and collaborative learning, you'll engage in discussions and analyze a variety of clinical cases. Guided by experts, you'll learn to interpret and analyze CUS and MRI imaging, choose the appropriate modality, and unravel the complexities of neonatal brain injury. By discussing a variety of cases of preterm and term brain injury, we'll demonstrate how neuroimaging can guide clinical decision-making, predict outome and improve patient care.

14:30-14:50

How to optimize CUS Imaging in term and preterm infants

Sandra Horsch, Germany

14:50-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:25

How to optimize MRI Imaging in term and preterm infants

Jeroen Dudnik, the Netherlands

15:25-16:30

Interactive Case Discussion

14:30-14:50

How to optimize CUS Imaging in term and preterm infants

Sandra Horsch, Germany

14:50-15:00

Discussion

15:00-15:25

How to optimize MRI Imaging in term and preterm infants

Jeroen Dudnik, the Netherlands

15:25-16:30

Interactive Case Discussion

Audience with Pane
Review the neuroimaging of presented cases and tell us what you think what the neurodevelopment outcome of the patient will be and what would you say to parents?

14:30-16:30

WORKSHOP 4: Ultrasound in the NICU (Abdomen, lung)


Lung Ultrasound: a primer – Francesco Raimondi, Italy
Abdomen Ultrasound – Oscar Navarro, Canada

14:30-16:30

WORKSHOP 5: Writing successfully for publication

Jos Latour, United Kingdom; Agnes van den Hoogen, the Netherlands; Eleanor Molloy, Ireland

14:30-14:50

Writing your first draft manuscript

Jos Latour, United Kingdom

14:50-15:10

Completing and submitting

Agnes van den Hoogen, the Netherlands

15:10-15:30

Writing an award winning conference abstract

Jos Latour, United Kingdom

15:30-15:50

The editors perspective

Eleanor Molloy, Ireland

15:50-16:30

Discussion

Round table with all speakers

16:30-17:00

COFFEE BREAK

17:00-18:00

Plenary Session 5 - NEWBORN AND MOTHERS IN WAR AND CRISIS

Chairs: Esin Koc, Turkey; Charles C. Roehr, United Kingdom

17:00-17:30

War (Speaker from Ukraine, WHO)

Denis Surkov, Ukraine

17:30-18:00

Perinatal outcome in refugees

George Daskalakis, Greece

18:00-19:00

MEET AND GREET, SIGs

jENS For women and diversity

Moderated by Sandra Horsch, Manon Benders, Christian Berg

08:00-09:00

10 POSTER WALK SESSIONS

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 19: BRAIN 4 - HIE and Neuroprotection

Chairs: Nicola Robertson, United Kingdom; Ela Chakkarapani, UK

09:00-09:30

What do we do with the infants that we do not cool? Long term outcome following mild HIE

Deirdre Murray, Ireland

09:30-10:00

COOLPRIME study: comparative effectiveness of treatment for mild HIE

Lina Chalak, United States

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 20: LUNG 4 - Longterm BPD

Chairs: Anna Lavizzari, Italy; Peter Dargaville, Australia

09:00-09:30

Adults with BPD

Klaus Rabe, Germany

09:30-10:00

Long term effects of BPD

Keith Barrington, Canada

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 21: Challenges and opportunities in LMIC

Chairs: Ola D. Saugstad, Norway; Corrado Moretti, Italy

09:00-09:30

How to reduce neonatal mortality

Joy Lawn, UK

09:30-10:00

TBD

Sushma Nangia, India

10:00-10:30

Attaining the SDG 3.2 in LMICs, the need for neonatal innovative technologies

Chinyere Ezeaka, Nigeria

10:30-11:00

Situation in Etiopia

MOH

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 22: NUTRITION 3 - Whole body and organ growth

Chairs: Miguel Saenz de Pipaon, Spain; Gitte Zachariassen, Denmark

09:00-09:30

Optimising growth in very preterm infants

Mark Johnson, United Kingdom

09:30-10:00

Congenital nephron deficit associated with a low birth weight

Silvia Iacobelli, French territories

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 23: I&I&I Sepsis - Covid19 and neonates multiorgan effects and MISC

Chairs: Chris Gale, United Kingdom; Carlo Pietrasanta, Italy

09:00-09:30

Does COVID-19 affect neonatal brain?

David Kimberlin, United States

09:30-10:00

Update on MISC/PIM-TS in neonates

David Kimberlin, United States

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 24 - Neonatal Blood Transfusion

Chair: Enrico Lopriore, the Netherlands

09:00-09:30

Fetal-hemoglobin-enriched RBC transfusions in preterm neonates

Luciana Teofili, Italy

09:30-10:00

Neonatal blood transfusions: new insights and future perspectives

Suzanne Gunnink, the Netherlands

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30

Plenary Session 6 - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Chairs: Sampsa Vanhatalo, Finland; John O’Toole, Ireland

11:30-12:00

Introduction to artificial neural networks. Deep learning solutions

Pawel Kulakowski, Poland

12:00-12:30

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in neonatology

Josef Neu, USA

12:30-13:30

LUNCH BREAK

13:30-15:00

5 POSTER SESSIONS

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 25: BRAIN 5 - Translational brain research

Chairs: Pierre Gressens, France; Ursula Felderhof- Müser, Germany

15:00-15:30

Peripheral immune cells and perinatal brain injury: a double edged sword?

Josephine Herz, Germany

15:30-16:00

Building a regenerative scaffold for the focal brain injury - tails of spider venom and seaweed

Bobbi Fleiss, Australia

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 26: RESUSCITATION 1 - Intrauterine stabilisation

Chairs: Mario Rudiger, Germany; Max Vento, Spain

15:00-15:30

Stimulation of fetal breathing: experimental data

Graeme Polglase, Australia

15:30-16:00

Stimulation of fetal breathing: clinical data

Arjan te Pas, the Netherlands

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 27: NUTRITION 4 - Nutrition after abdominal surgery

Chairs: Sissel Moltu, Norway; Virgilio Carnielli, Italy

15:00-15:30

Enteral nutrition following intestinal surgery in neonates

Alexandre Lapillonne, France

15:30-16:00

Management of short bowel syndrome at a NICU – practical tips for the neonatologist

Magnus Domellöf, Sweden

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 28: CIRCULATION 3 - PDA

Chairs: Aisling Smith, Ireland; Samir Gupta, United Kingdom

15:00-15:30

What can we learn from PDA trials?

Willem de Boode, the Netherlands

15:30-16:00

Is it time to accept the null hypothesis, or do we need more PDA trials

Patrick McNamara, United States

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 29: What is the risk and impact of RSV infection for all infants?

Chairs: Ola D. Saugstad, Norway; Luc Zimmerman, the Netherlands

15:00-15:30

ResQFamily: Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus hospitalisation on Quality of life of Families – a multi-country study

Christina Tischer, Germany

15:30-16:00

RSV from the clinic to prevention strategies

Fabio Midulla, Italy

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

15:00-17:00

Parallel Session 30: PHARMA 2 - Life course medicine

Chairs: Anne Smits, Belgium; Giacomo Cavallaro, Italy

15:00-15:30

Maternal drug use and impact on neonates/breastfeeding

Robert Flint, the Netherlands

15:30-16:00

Paternal drug use and effects in offspring Maternal drug use and impact on neo-nates/breastfeeding

Genny Raffaelli, Italy

16:00-17:00

Oral Communications (4x15 minutes)

17:00-17:30

COFFEE BREAK

17:30-18:30

Plenary Session 7: PEDIATRIC RESEARCH SESSION

Chairs: Pierre Gressens, France; Bobbi Fleiss, Australia

17:30-18:00

Artificial womb – update where are we now?

Alan Flake, USA

18:00-18:30

Stem cell research in primates

Marius Möbius, Germany

08:00-09:00

10 POSTER WALK SESSIONS

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 31: BRAIN 6 - Seizures and epilepsy syndromes

Chairs: Geraldine Boylan, Ireland; Claudia Roll, Germany

09:00-09:30

Neonatal presentation of genetic epilepsies: early differentiation from acute provoked seizures

Roberta Cilio, Belgium

09:30-10:00

Epilepsy following acute symptomatic neonatal seizure

Hannah Glass, USA

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 32: LUNG 5 - Apnea of prematurity

Chairs: Anton van Kaam, the Netherlands; Sinno Simons, the Netherlands

09:00-09:30

Non-invasive respiratory support in infants with apnea of prematurity

Anna Lavizzari, Italy

09:30-10:00

Pharmacological treatment of apnea of prematurity

Barbara Schmidt, Canada

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 33: NUTRITION 5 - NEC

Chairs: Camilla Martin, USA; Mark Johnson, United Kingdom

09:00-09:30

NEC – update on pathogenesis, preventive strategies and non-surgical treatment

Josef Neu, United States

09:30-10:00

Surgical treatment of NEC

Nigel Hall, United Kingdom

10:00-11:00

Oral communications (4x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 34: EFCNI 5 - Infant and family-centered developmental care – is this already standard of care?

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Karen Walker, Australia

09:00-09:30

The COUSIN Study: defining outcomes for family-centred care

Agnes van den Hoogen, The Netherlands

09:30-10:00

Introduction of the WHO Kangaraoo Mother Care STAGE Program

Karen Walker, Australia

10:00-10:30

Mother-Newborn Couplet Care from theory to practice to ensure zero separation for all newborns

Stina Klemming, Sweden

10:30-11:00

Oral communications (2x15 minutes)

09:00-11:00

Parallel Session 35: Dos and don´ts when planning a research project

Chairs: Kerstin Jost, Sweden; Genny Raffaelli, Italy

09:00-09:30

Dos and don´ts when planning a research project

Deirdre Murray, United Kingdom

09:30-10:00

Grant writing

Chiara Gabbi, Italy

10:00-10:30

Experience with ESPR award from a young researcher’s perspective

Maria Luisa Tataranno, the Netherlands

10:30-11:00

Experience

Marius Möbius, Gemany

09:00-10:00

Parallel Session 36: Parents in the NICU

Chairs: Silke Mader, Germany; Sinno Simons, the Netherlands

09:00-09:30

Father in the NICU

Simone Favero, Italy

09:30-10:00

Prevention of PTSS

Naomi Meesters, The Netherlands

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30-13:00

Plenary Session 8 - CLOSING CEREMONY

Chairs: Charles C. Roehr, United Kingdom; Silke Mader, Germany; Corrado Moretti, Italy

11:30-11:50

Telemedicine for ROP screening

Donny W. Suh, USA

11:50-12:10

Telemedicine in DR

Mario Rüdiger, Germany

12:10-12:30

Telemedicine in neonatal neurocritical care

Juan Arnaez, Spain

12:30-12:50

Discussion

12:50-13:00

Closing Ceremony