Neonatal Quality at Hot Topics
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
8 a.m.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE
International Medicine Moderator – Susan Niermeyer, MD, MPH
• Overview of Global Neonatology and Advances in the Field – Susan Niermeyer, MD, MPH
• The Underutilization of Caffeine in sub-Saharan Africa – Helen Nabwera, BMedSci, BMBS, DTM&H,
PhD, FHEA, FRCPCH
• Partnering to Improve Neonatal Care: Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Ethiopian Neonatal
Network – Danielle Ehret, MD, MPH and Bogale Worku, MD
• Providing Low-Cost and Effective Care in a Low-Resource Setting in Eastern Uganda: Making
Every Newborn Count – Kathy Burgoine, BMBCh, MRCPCH, PhD
10 a.m.
BREAK / Visit the Exhibit Hall
KEYNOTE SESSION
10:30 a.m.
Keynote Session
Moderator – Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc
The Jerold F. Lucey, MD, Lectureship and Keynote Address
How Inequality Affects Physical, Mental and Social Health – Richard Wilkinson, MMedSci, FFPH and Kate E. Pickett, PhD, FRSA, FFPH
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH / Visit the Exhibit Hall
FOLLOW UP
1:15 p.m.
Follow up
Moderator – Susan R. Hintz, MD, MS Epi
• Adult Outcomes Following Extremely Preterm Birth: Lessons from the Victorian Infant
Collaborative Study in Australia – Jeanie Cheong, MD
• How Adult Outcome Studies Inform Us About How to Follow Up Neonatal Survivors of the
NICU at 2 and 5 Years of Age? – Dieter Wolke, PhD
• Developing a Multi-Site Interprovincial Registry Combining Follow-Up and Dedicated Outcomes
Research After Surgery for Critical Congenital Heart Defects in Early Life – Charlene
Robertson, MD, FRCP(C)
2:45 p.m.
BREAK / Visit the Exhibit Hall
GREEN OR ROTTEN APPLES
3:15 p.m.
Green or Rotten Apples
Moderator – Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA
• Neonatal Lymphatics: Novel Advances in Diagnosis and Therapy – Deborah Rabinowitz, MD
• Kidney Support Therapy (Dialysis) for Neonates – David Askenazi, MD, MSPH
• The Potential for Precision Therapeutics in the Neonatal ICU – Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD
4:45 p.m.
DEBATE: Lost in Translation
Moderator – Avroy A. Fanaroff, MD
• Lost in Translation: Applying Knowledge from Animal Studies to Human Patients – Haresh
Kirpalani, MD, MSc vs. Stuart Hooper, AM, PhD
5:30 p.m.
ADJOURN