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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Thursday 21st March 2024

08:55

Welcome and introduction

Prof Christoph Lees, Professor of Obstetrics, Imperial College London, UK

Fetal cardiology

09:00

Diagnosis and risk factors in HLHS and its 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 Raffaele 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

16:45

Paediatric outcomes of hydrocephalus

Mr Dulanka Silva, Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

17:15

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

Angiogenic biomarkers for suspected preeclampsia

Dr Sofia Cerdeira, Sub-Specialty Trainee Maternal Fetal Medicine, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Academic Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK

11:35

Pre-eclampsia: Perspective from maternal haemodynamics

Dr Lin Foo, Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

12:10

Panel Q&A

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

How ultrasound findings relate to the FIGO PAS classification

Professor Eric Jauniaux, Professor in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine

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

Pre-eclampsia screening and Aspirin: how good can we make it?

Prof Kypros Nicolaides, Professor of Fetal Medicine, Founder and Chairman, The Fetal Medicine Foundation, London, UK

17:00

Close of meeting