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Provisional Schedule

Day One

Thursday 18th January 2024

09:00

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Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speaker

Professor Louise Kenny, Executive Pro-Vice Chancellor University of Liverpool

Chair

09:15

Session 1: Prelabour Preterm Rupture of Membranes

09:15

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09:45

Balancing Risks for Mother and Baby – Can we predict adverse patient outcomes following PPROM between 16 and 22+6 weeks of pregnancy? Results of the UKOSS study

 

Speaker

Dr Laura Goodfellow NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women’s Hospital

09:45

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10:15

Paging Dr Google – Evaluation of online information and women’s experience of PPROM

Speaker

Dr Lisa Story NIHR Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, King’s College London & St Thomas’s Hospital London

10:15

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10:25

Supporting Women with PPROM

Speaker

Ms Ciara Curran - Little Heartbeats Patient Support Group

10:25

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10:55

Can amniotic membrane rupture heal itself? Updates on current understanding of amniotic membrane rupture and healing.

Speaker

Professor Anna David, Professor in Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, University College London

10:55

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11:15

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

11:15

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12:15

Abstract Talks

12:15

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13:15

Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session 2: Predicting Preterm Birth

13:15

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13:45

Using big data to try and predict preterm birth

Speaker

Professor Dilly Anumba, University of Sheffield

13:45

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14:15

miRNA and the development of a predictive test for preterm labour

Speaker

Dr Vasso Terzidou, Imperial College London (TBC)

14:15

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14:45

Abstract Talks

14:45

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15:15

Coffee break and poster viewing

15:15

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16:00

Abstract Talks

16:00

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17:00

UK Preterm Clinical Network Meeting

Chair

Dr Nigel Simpson, University of Leeds

19:00

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Dinner

Venue TBC

Day Two

Friday 19th January 2024

Session 3: Preventing and Planning for Preterm Labour

09:00

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09:15

Welcome and opening remarks

Speaker

Dr Devender Roberts and Catherine McClennan, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Cheshire and Merseyside Women’s Health and Maternity Programme

09:15

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09:45

Corticosteroids for Late Preterm Delivery – where are we up to and what happens next?

Speaker

Professor Sarah Stock / Dr Sarah Murray, University of Edinburgh

09:45

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10:30

A (C)STICH in time – an update on suture research

Speaker

Professor Katie Morris / Dr Victoria Hodgetts Morton, University of Birmingham

10:30

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11:00

4 years from the introduction of the BAPM Preterm Perinatal Management of Extreme Preterm Birth Framework- How is it going and what is next

Speaker

Dr Sarah Bates, PERIPrem Project Neonatal Operational Clinical Lead and Quality Lead for the British Association of Perinatal Medicine

11:00

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11:30

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

11:30

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12:15

Controversies related to preterm birth in twins

Speaker

Professor Asma Khalil, RCOG Vice President for Academia and Strategy

12:15

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13:00

Lunch and Poster Viewing

Session 4: Service Evaluations & Clinical Challenges

13:00

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13:30

Full Dilatation Cesarean Sections as a risk factor for spontaneous preterm birth and second trimester loss – what we know and what we don’t?

Speaker

Professor Andrew Shennan, King’s College London

13:30

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15:00

Abstract talks

15:00

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15:10

Introduction to the New Tommy’s Centre for PTB Research

Speaker

Professor Anna David and Professor Catherine Williamson

15:10

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15:45

Coffee Break

15:45

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16:30

Debate: To give or not to give – Omega 3 for women at high risk of PTB? A life saving nutrient or fishy burp?

For –Professor Alex Heazell, St Mary’s, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Against – Dr Nigel Simpson – Mr Nigel Simpson – Consultant O&G, Leeds Teaching Hospitals. NIHR Clinical Research Network National Specialty Lead for Reproductive Health.

16:30

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Meeting Close