THURSDAY 18th JUNE 2009 |
08.00–09.20 | Registration and coffee |
09.20–09.30 | Official opening of conference |
| Professor Stephen Robson, President, British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society |
SESSION 1 | FETAL MEDICINE |
| Chairs: Mr Gerald Mason and Mr Bill Martin |
09.30–10.10 | SOCIETY LECTURE |
| Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis |
| Professor YM Dennis Lo, Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine and Professor of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
10.10–10.22 | Comparison of off-line three-dimensional and real-time two–dimensional ultrasound assessment of nuchal translucency: a pilot study of 100 cases |
| S Sudhakar et al |
| Abstract 1.1 |
10.22–10.34 | Epidermal growth factor increases system A transport and attenuates apoptosis in placental explants |
| AEP Heazell et al |
| Abstract 1.2 |
10.34–10.46 | Local over-expression of VEGF in the uterine arteries results in long-term changes in uterine artery blood flow and vascular reactivity in the pregnant sheep |
| AL David et al |
| Abstract 1.3 |
10.46–11.30 | Coffee, Exhibition and Poster Viewing |
11.30–11.42 | Audit of first trimester chorionic villous sampling outcomes: a regional, population-based study |
| AM Tonks et al |
| Abstract 1.4 |
11.42–11.54 | Metabolic changes in plasma and placental villous explants from women who deliver a small for gestational age (SGA) baby |
| RP Horgan et al |
| Abstract 1.5 |
11.54–12.06 | Human primary cytotrophoblasts from normal and IUGR pregnancies respond differently to T3 treatment in vitro |
| E Vasilopoulou et al |
| Abstract 1.6 |
12.06–12.36 | Hot Topic: Cardiac defects in fetuses with elevated nuchal translucency |
| Professor Lindsey Allan, Consultant Fetal Cardiologist, King’s College Hospital, London, UK |
12.36–14.30 | Lunch, Exhibition, Poster Viewing and Meet the Experts Sessions |
13.20–14.20 | MEET THE EXPERTS SESSION (lunchtime sessions) |
| Failure to progress: |
| Mr Kim Hinshaw and Professor Tina Lavender |
| Abnormal liver function tests: |
| Miss Joanna Girling and Professor Catherine Williamson |
| Morbidity adherent placenta: |
| Miss Sara Paterson-Brown and Dr John Cockburn |
SESSION 2 | PREGNANCY OUTCOME |
| Chairs: Dr Myles Taylor and Dr Richard Smith |
14.30–15.00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| Outcome of prenatally detected renal anomalies |
| Miss H.K. Dhillon, Perinatal Urologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK |
15.00–15.12 | The combined use of two powerful predictors of preterm birth in high-risk asymptomatic women |
| LA Bolt et al |
| Abstract 2.1 |
15.12–15.24 | Prevalence and outcome for individuals with Down Syndrome, 1985-2003 |
| PWG Tennant et al |
| Abstract 2.2 |
15.24–15.36 | Low saliva progesterone concentrations are associated with spontaneous early pre-term labour (before 34 weeks of gestation) in high risk women |
| L Poston et al |
| Abstract 2.3 |
15.36–16.06 | Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing |
16.06–16.18 | Can twin pregnancy be safely prolonged to term (37 weeks gestation) |
| R Mahony et al |
| Abstract 2.4 |
16.18–16.30 | Extreme obesity in pregnancy in the UK: prevalence, pregnancy complications and outcomes |
| M Knight |
| Abstract 2.5 |
16.30–16.42 | The medicalising of obesity during pregnancy: forgetting the woman inside |
| CM Furber et al |
| Abstract 2.6 |
16.42–17.12 | Hot Topic: Abnormal placentation and long term cardiovascular disease |
| Professor Ian Greer, Professor of Obstetric Medicine and Dean, Hull York Medical School, University of York |
17.15–18.00 | Annual General Meeting |
19.30 | Society Reception and Dinner, St. George’s Hall, Liverpool |
FRIDAY 19th JUNE 2009 |
SESSION 3 | LABOUR AND DELIVERY |
| Chairs: Dr Tracey Johnston and Dr Lucy Kean |
09.00–09.30 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| Controversies in third stage management |
| Professor Judith S. Mercer, Clinical Professor, University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island, USA |
| Introduction by Professor Tina Lavender, Manchester, UK |
09.30–09.42 | Measuring placental transfusion for term births: weighing babies at birth with cord intact |
| D Farrar et al |
| Abstract 3.1 |
09.42–09.54 | The Release Trial: a randomised trial of umbilical vein oxytocin for retained placenta |
| AD Weeks et al |
| Abstract 3.2 |
09.54–10.06 | Subdural, subgaleal and cephalohaematoma – are these a result of obstetric trauma? |
| E Whitby et al |
| Abstract 3.3 |
10.06–11.05 | Coffee, Exhibition and Poster Presentations |
11.05–11.17 | ‘Normal Birth matters’: the impact of an interactive, multimedia learning package on maternity staff |
| J Grant et al |
| Abstract 3.4 |
11.17–11.29 | Macrophage infiltration of decidua and myometrium in rat models of preterm labour |
| SA Hamilton et al |
| Abstract 3.5 |
11.29–11.41 | A randomised, double masked, placebo controlled Study of Progesterone for the Prevention of Preterm Birth in Twins (STOPPIT) |
| JE Norman et al |
| Abstract 3.6 |
11.41–12.11 | Hot Topic: Mode of delivery of twins |
| Dr Jon Barrett, MD, Chief Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto, Canada |
12.11–13.10 | Lunch, Exhibition and Poster Viewing |
SESSION 4 | MATERNAL MEDICINE |
| Chairs: Mr Jason Waugh and Professor Fionnuala McAuliffe |
13.10–13.40 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| Thrombophilias in pregnancy |
| Professor Marc Rodger, MD, Haematologist & Epidemiologist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada |
13.40–13.52 | Biological activity of vascular endothelial growth factor in pre-eclipse |
| VL Bills et al |
| Abstract 4.1 |
13.52–14.04 | First trimester markers for the prediction of pre-eclampsia in women with a prior high risk |
| A Khalil et al |
| Abstract 4.2 |
14.04–14.16 | Maternal plasma fatty acid composition and pregnancy outcome in pregnant adolescents: |
| the About Teenage Eating (ATE) Study |
| SJ Wheeler et al |
| Abstract 4.3 |
14.16–14.46 | Tea, Exhibition and Poster Viewing |
14.46–14.58 | The gestation-specific risk and predictors of antepartum stillbirth in babies of women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: a population based study |
| I Balchin et al |
| Abstract 4.4 |
14.58–15.10 | A prospective study of highly sensitive CRP throughout pregnancy and postpartum in women who developed pre-eclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension |
| M Noori et al |
| Abstract 4.5 |
15.10–15.22 | Do maternal cardiac structural abnormalities predispose to high resistance uterine artery Doppler indices? |
| K Melchiorre et al |
| Abstract 4.6 |
15.22–15.52 | Hot Topic: Adult congenital heart disease in pregnancy |
| Dr Lorna Swan, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK |
15.52–16.00 | Presentation of Abstract Prizes |
16.00–16.30 | DEBATE: |
| ‘There is no place for stand alone midwifery-led units’ |
| Chair: Professor Jane Sandall |
| Professor Denis Walsh: AGAINST the motion |
| Associate Professor in Midwifery, University of Nottingham, UK |
| Professor James Walker: FOR the motion |
| Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leeds Institute of Medicine, St. James Hospital, Leeds, UK |
16.30 | Close of Meeting |