INFANT Research Day 2016

We will host our annual research day on 9 September 2016 at the Western Gateway Building.

Registration is FREE through Eventbrite: please register HERE

The INFANT Centre will host its annual research day on 9 September 2016 at the Western Gateway Building.

6 CPD Points are Available 

Registration is FREE through Eventbrite: please register HERE

 

BETTER OUTCOMES FOR MATERNAL, FETAL & INFANT HEALTH

Western Gateway Building, Western Road, Cork. 

 

PROGRAMME

08.30: Registration

9.00:  Opening Address

Prof Louise Kenny, Director of INFANT

09:15-10:45 – Intrauterine Growth Restriction & Pregnancy Loss

Chair: Dr Keelin O’Donoghue, PI Infant

KEYNOTE: PROF PETER VON DADELSZEN, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

 

 

1. Intrapartum Deaths and Intrapartum Event Related Neonatal Deaths int he Republic of Ireland, 2011-2014

Karen McNamara, Richard Greene and Keelin O’Donoghue 

2. Rates of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Secondary to IUGR over a 10 Year Period

Ciara Nolan and Etaoin Kent 

3.The General Populations’ Understanding of Miscarriage: A Cross-Sectional Study

Sarah Meaney, Jacqueline Sheehan, Rachel Rice and Keelin O’Donoghue

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session  

 

 

11.15-12.45 – Clinical Trials in Perinatal Populations

Chair: Prof Geraldine Boylan, Director of INFANT

KEYNOTE: DR MARK TURNER, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL.

 

1. Risk based monitoring (RBM) tools for clinical trial monitoring – a narrative review

Caroline Hurley, Frances Shiely, Jessica Power, Mike Clarke, Joseph Eustace, Evelyn Flanagan and Patricia Kearney.

2. Habitual Calcium and Vitamin D Intakes in Pregnant Irish Women; Preliminary Data from the DMAT Randomised Controlled Trial

Karen O’ Callaghan, Áine Hennessy, Louise Kenny and Mairead Kiely

3. Validation of altered miRNA in neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: The BiHIVE 2 Study

Ann Marie Looney, Marc O’Sullivan, Mikael Finder, Conor Bogue, Caroline Ahearne, Geraldine Boylan, Boubou Hallberg and Deirdre Murray

 

Lunch & Poster Session

 

13.30 – 15:00 – Immunology, Dermatology and Atopy

Chair: Dr Deirdre Murray, PI Infant

KEYNOTE: PROF ALAN IRVINE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN.

 

1. A dose-interval study of a dual probiotic preparation in preterm infants.

 C Watkins, K Murphy, Eugene M Dempsey, Carol-Anne O’ Shea, P W O’ Toole, R P Ross, C Stanton and C A Ryan

2. Carbohydrate Syntrophy during feeding on Mother’s Milk enhances the establishment of Bifidobacterium breve in the neonatal gastrointestinal tract.

Mary O’Connell Motherway

3. Postnatal Breastfeeding rates in low risk Nulliparous women in a tertiary hospital

Lisa Mc Sweeney, Cathy Monteith, Colm Breatnach, Patrick Dicker, Adam James, Elizabeth Tully, Maura Lavery, Afif El Khuffash and Etaoin Kent

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

15.15 – 16:45 – Innovation in Medical Engineering

Chair: Prof Frederic Adam, PI Infant

KEYNOTE: MATTHEW PICKET, CERNER CORPORATION.

 

1. Estimating the Gestational Age of Preterm Infants with EEG

John O’ Toole, Elena Pavlidis, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Geraldine Boylan and Nathan Stevenson    

2. Further enhancing obstetric training through the amalgamation of simulation and virtual reality

Donnchadh Coffey, Sabin Tabirca and Richard Greene      

3. Community Connected Health for Pregnancy: The case of LEANBH

Simon Woodworth, Paidi O Reilly, Molly Mattsson, Louise Kenny and Frederic Adam      

 

17:00:  Prize Giving

 

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