Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd March 2024, QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London.
Chaired by Professor Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London.
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Programme
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*All programmes are subject to change, a final programme with be available shortly
Thursday 21st March 2024
08:55
Welcome and introduction
Prof Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London, UK
Fetal cardiology
09:00
HLHS and variants
Professor Julene Carvalho, Consultant Fetal & Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Brompton & St George's Hospitals, London, UK
09:30
Aortic arch imaging: US and MRI
Dr Trisha Vigneswaran, Consultant in Fetal & Paediatric Cardiology, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust Hospitals, London UK
10:00
How to diagnose fetal tachy-arrhythmias
Dr Laura Vazquez-Garcia, Consultant Fetal & Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
10:30
Coffee break
Fetal growth restriction: diagnosis & management
11:00
The computerized CTG and fetal Growth Restriction
Professor Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London, UK
11:30
Fetal size, Dopplers and outcomes
Professor Tamara Stampalija, Professor of Obstetrics, University of Trieste, Italy
12:00
Outcomes of term FGR according to algorithm based management
Dr Rafaelle Napolitano, Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, UCL, London, UK
12:30
Lunch
Non invasive prenatal genomics
14:00
Whole exome sequencing - parent and professionals' experience
Dr Dagmar Tapon, Genetic Counsellor at Imperial College London, UK
14:20
NIPT 10 years on-where are we with it?
Professor Mark Kilby, Honorary Consultant of Fetal Medicine, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK
From prenatal to postnatal outcomes: Urology
14:45
Obstructive uropathies
Miss Marie-Klaire Farrugia, Consultant Paediatric Urologist, Imperial College London, UK
15:05
Revisiting Shunts: new insights
Professor Christoph Berg, Head of Prenatal Medicine, Gynaecological Sonography and Fetal Surgery, University Women's Clinic, Cologne, Germany
15:30
Q&A
15:45
Coffee break
From prenatal to postnatal outcomes: Neurology
16:15
Fetal neurology clinic: prognosis and counselling
Dr Nigel Basheer, Consultant Neonatal Neurologist, Imperial College London, UK
16:40
Paediatric outcomes of hydrocephalus
Mr Zubair Tahir Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Great Ormond Street Children Hospital, London UK
17:05
Q&A
17:30
Close of day 1
Friday 22nd March 2024
08:55
Welcome and introduction
Prof Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London, UK
Ultrasound and the labour ward: what can I learn?
09:00
How to do and why
Professor Torbjørn Eggebø, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway
09:35
Prediction of labour outcome
Miss Sana Usman, Consultant Obstetrician and Subspecialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine, City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
10:10
Q&A
10:30
Coffee break
Pre eclampsia: pathophysiology
11:00
How biomarkers work in the clinic
Dr A. Sofia Cerdeira, Obstetrician Clinician Scientist, Imperial College London, UK
11:30
Cardiovascular adaptation and the two phenotypes
Dr Lin Foo, Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK
12:00
Disease modifying therapy for pre eclampsia
Prof Herbert Valensise, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Policlinico Casilino Tor Vergata, University of Rome, Italy
12:30
Lunch
Placental Imaging
14:00
Vasa praevia: recognition and pitfalls
Dr Deepa Srinivasan, Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK
14:30
3D placental imaging
Professor Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London, UK
15:00
FIGO and RCOG guidelines for placenta accreta spectrum
Professor Eric Jauniaux, Professor in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University College London, UK
15:30
Coffee break
Interventions in fetal medicine
16:00
Monochorionic selective reduction
Prof Kurt Hecher, Professor in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
16:30
FETO and Spina Bifida repair: everything you wanted to know but didn’t dare to ask
Professor Kypros Nicolaides, Professor of Fetal Medicine, Founder and Chairman, The Fetal Medicine Foundation, London
17:00