Program
Sunday 2.6.
15.00 Registration is open
16.30 WELCOME AND OPENING WORDS (Sigrid Jusélius Foundation)
SESSION 1. Etiology and prevention of preterm birth
Chair: Prof. Mikko Hallman
16.45 Prediction of preterm birth (David Olson, University of Alberta, Canada)
17.25 Preventing spontaneous and iatrogenic preterm birth - what is the current evidence base? (Bo Jacobsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
18.05 Small vulnerable newborns - big potential for impact (Per Ashorn, Tampere University, Finland)
18.45 END OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
19.00 GET TOGETHER
Monday 3.6.
8.00 REGISTRATION IS OPEN
SESSION 2: Expanding limits of treatment
Chair: Prof. Liisa Lehtonen
9.00 Caring for the smallest infants: Evidence-based policy and practice in Europe and effects on health and development (Jennifer Zeitlin, INSERM, France)
9.40 Treating the smallest newborn infants: perspective from Japan (Satoshi Kusuda, Neonatal Research Network of Japan, Japan)
10.20 COFFEE AND POSTER VIEWING
10.50 Developing a neonatal care unit in a low-resource setting (Peter Waiswa, Makerere University, Uganda)
SESSION 3: Spontaneous preterm birth
Chair: Prof. Anisur Rahman
11.30 Genomics of birth timing and preterm birth (Louis Muglia, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, USA)
12.10 LUNCH
13.10 Novel pharmacological strategies to effectively and safely prevent preterm birth, and improve fetal/neonatal outcomes (Sylvain Chemtob, Université de Montréal, Canada)
13.50 Reduction of preterm birth over 30 years: the role of sociodemographic factors in a rural area, Bangladesh (Anisur Rahman, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Prevention, Bangladesh)
14.30 COFFEE AND POSTER VIEWING (author attendance)
SESSION 4: Adults born preterm: cardiovascular programming
Chair: Prof. Eero Kajantie
15.30 Preterm birth and lifelong health - what can we learn from register studies? (Casey Crump, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA)
16.10 Adam Lewandowski (UK Biobank and University of Oxford): Impaired cardiac reserve in adults born preterm: is there potential for intervention?
16.50 TBA
17.30 END OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
19.00 PROGRAM FOR THE INVITED SPEAKERS
Tuesday 4.6.
8.00 REGISTRATION IS OPEN
SESSION 5: Developing neonatal treatments
Chair: Dr. Peter Waiswa
9.00 Protecting extremely preterm babies’ brains (Liisa Lehtonen, University of Turku, Finland)
9.40 Improving preterm babies’ outcomes in an African low-resource setting (Queen Dube, Ministry of Health, Malawi)
10.20 COFFEE AND POSTER VIEWING
10.50 Co-occurrence of pulmonary and placental insults during premature perinatal transition (Mikko Hallman, University of Oulu, Finland)
11.30 TBA
12.10 LUNCH
SESSION 6: Child and adult outcomes
Chair: Prof Anne Monique Nuyt
13.10 Visuopathy of prematurity - retina, brain or both? (Tora Sund Morken, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
13.50 Motor skills in children and adults born preterm - why are they poorer and why does it matter? (Kari Anne Indredavik Evensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
14.30 COFFEE AND POSTER VIEWING (author attendance)
15.30 Social development of children and adults born preterm (Julia Jäkel, University of Oulu, Finland)
16.10 Does preterm birth affect adult mental health? (Katri Räikkönen, University of Helsinki, Finland)
16.50 TBC
17.30 END OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Wednesday 5.6.
SESSION 7
Chair: Prof. Eero Kajantie
9.00 Small vulnerable newborns (TBC)
9.40 Preterm birth: A natural experiment to test evolutionary hypotheses (Dieter Wolke, University of Warwick, UK)
10.20 COFFEE BREAK
10.50 Are we ready for clinical guidelines for adults born very preterm? (Eero Kajantie, University of Oulu and THL, Finland)
11.30 Preemie voices: how adults born at extremely low birth weight describe their life stories (Saroj Saigal, McMaster University, Canada)
12.10 CLOSING OF THE SYMPOSIUM