November 14

HALL A

17.00-18.00 OPENING STATEMENTS

Welcome Adresses

Murat Yurdakök (Congress President)

Hercília Guimarães (President of UENPS)

Mathias Keller (President of EFCNI)

Why Europe should do more for preterm infants: The European Benchmarking

Analyses on neonatal health policies

November 15

HALL A

09.00-10.30 NEWBORNS AND NEONATOLOGY (PLENARY-1)

Chairpersons: Hercília Guimarães (Portugal), Gülsevin Tekinalp (Turkey)

George Simbruner (Austria)

What is the thing called science?

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30 RESUSCITATION

Chairpersons: la Davitaia (Georgia), Roger Soll (USA)

Ola Saugstad (Norway)

Current challenges in newborn resuscitation

Judy L. Aschner JL (USA)

Sodium bicarbonate: Basically useless therapy

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 OXIDATIVE STRESS

Chairpersons: Asuman Çoban (Turkey), Alan H. Jobe (USA)

Ola Saugstad (Norway)

Oxygenation of the ELBWI - in the delivery room and beyond

Giuseppe Buonocore (Italy)

Oxidative stress and feto-neonatal brain injury

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 LUNG INJURY

Chairpersons: Christian P. Speer (Germany), Paolo Giliberti (Italy)

Alan H. Jobe (USA)

Injury and inflammation from resuscitation of the preterm infant

Anton H. van Kaam (The Netherlands)

Lung-protective ventilation strategies in neonatology: What do we know and what do

we need to know?

HALL B

11.00-12.30 FETAL & NEONATAL ORIGINS-1

Chairpersons: Emila Christova (Bulgaria), Vassilios Fanos (Italy)

Peter D. Gluckman (New Zealand)

Developmental origins of health and disease: New insights

Apostolos Papageorgiou (Greece)

Intrauterine growth restriction: Short and long term implications

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 FETAL & NEONATAL ORIGINS-2

Chairpersons: Peter D. Gluckman (New Zealand), Nihal Oygür (Turkey)

Mikko Hallman (Finland)

Dilemma of antenatal and postnatal use of steroid therapies

Vassilios Fanos (Italy)

Renal perinatal programming and long term outcome in VLBW

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 NUTRITION-1

Chairpersons: Betül Acunaş (Turkey), Joseph Neu (USA)

William Hay (USA)

Fetal nutrition as a guide for nutrition of the preterm infant of the same gestational

age

Ekhard E. Ziegler (USA)

Human milk and the premature infant

HALL C

11.00-12.30 PERINATOLOGY-1

Chairpersons: Severi Filiberto Maria (Italy), Özgür Deren (Turkey)

Bennett Philips (UK)

Chorioamnionitis and molecular signals

John R. G. Challis (Canada)

Epigenetic signals and fetal growth

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 PERINATOLOGY-2

Chairpersons: Boris Filipovic (Crotia), Bennett Philips (UK)

Severi Filiberto Maria (Italy)

Urocortin: a fetal signal for preterm birth

Jorge Correia Pinto (Portugal)

Perinatal approach of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 PERINATOLOGY-3

Chairpersons: John R. G. Challis (Canada), Türkan Dağoğlu (Turkey)

Alexandra Matias (Portugal)

Early losses of twins versus singletons following ART

Cornelia Maschke (Germany)

Long-term follow-up after intrauterine laser treatment for twin-twin transfusion

syndrome

November 16

HALL A

09.00-10.30 RESPIRATORY DISTRESS (PLENARY-2)

Chairpersons: Suada Heljic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Giuseppe Buonocore (Italy)

Christian P. Speer (Germany)

Do we know how to treat RDS?

Hugh O’Brodovich (USA)

Transient tachypnea of the newborn: fluid transport in the perinatal lung

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30 CPAP

Chairpersons: Mehmet Satar (Turkey), Hugh O’Brodovich (USA)

Richard Polin (USA)

How about CPAP and RDS: Are we finally on the road to enlightenment?

Corrado Moretti (Italy)

Nasal respiratory support for the preterm infant

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 LUNG DEVELOPMENT

Chairpersons: Emilja Juretic (Crotia), Judy L. Aschner JL (USA)

Mikko Hallman (Finland)

Genetics and biomarkers as a tool to understand and eventually prevent perinatal

diseases

Alan H. Jobe (USA)

Prenatal inflammation and lung development

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 BPD

Chairpersons: Anton H. van Kaam (The Netherlands), Hasan Özkan (Turkey)

Hugh O’Brodovich (USA)

New BPD, Old BPD

Christian P. Speer (Germany)

What can we learn from the pathogenesis of BPD regarding strategies of prevention

and treatment?

Manuel Sanchez Luna (Spain)

Prevention of BPD, anything new?

HALL B

11.00-12.30 NUTRITION-2

Chairpersons: Apostolos Papageorgiou (Greece,Canada), Pierre Henri Jarreau

(France)

Joseph Neu (USA)

Strategies for enteral and parenteral nutrition in LBW infants: an update

Ekhard E. Ziegler (USA)

Aggressive nutritional management of premature infants

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 NUTRITION-3

Chairpersons: Teresa Tomé (Portugal), Ekhard E. Ziegler (USA)

William Hay (USA)

Neonatal hypo- and hyperglycemia: myths, facts, and current state of the art

Maka Mshvildadze (Georgia)

Intestinal microbiome in premature infants

Alfredo Guarino (Italy)

Probiotics in the newborn: what’s new?

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 NEC

Chairpersons: György Balla (Hungary), William Hay (USA)

Joseph Neu (USA)

Biomarkers for infants at risk for necrotizing enterocolitis: clues to prevention

Mehmet Vural (Turkey)

Evidence- vs. experince-based treatment in necrotizing enterocolitis

HALL C

11.00-12.30 SEPSIS

Chairpersons: Jean Bernard Gouyon (France), Kate Piperkova (FYR Macedonia )

Christian P. Speer (Germany)

Neonatal sepsis: an update

Ryszard Lauterbach (Poland)

Pentoxifylline - supportive therapy for neonatal sepsis

Alica Bystrica (Slovakia)

Nosocomial infections in VLBW infants

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 ORGANIZATION-1

Chairpersons: Jerzy Szczapa (Poland), Nikk Conneman (The Netherlands)

Janusz Gadzinowski (Poland)

Access to intensive care for very preterm infants in Europe

Jean Bernard Gouyon (France)

Late prematurity in 2010: consequences for organization of perinatal care

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 ORGANIZATION-2

Chairpersons: Ryszard Lauterbach (Poland), Nilgün Köksal (Turkey)

Nikk Conneman (The Netherlands)

Individualized developmental and family centered care in the NICU

Peter D. Gluckman (New Zealand)

The economic costs of a poor start to life

November 17

HALL A

08.30-10.30 ACADEMIC OLYMPICS FINAL

10.30-11.00 COFFEE BREAK

11.00-12.30 SURFACTANT

Chairpersons: Richard Plavka (Czech Republic), Ola Saugstad (Norway)

Egbert Herting (Germany)

Methods to deliver surfactant - what´s new?

Roger Soll (USA)

Synthetic pulmonary surfactant preparations: new developments and future trends

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 NO & HFO

Chairpersons: Mikko Hallman (Finland), Arie Bos (The Netherlands)

Judy L. Aschner JL (USA)

Inhaled nitric oxide for premature infants with severe respiratory failure

David J. Durand (USA)

High-frequency oscillatory ventilation for very-low-birth-weight infants

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 PDA & Indomethacin

Chairpersons: Heili Varendi (Estonia), Richard Polin (USA)

Maria João Baptista (Portugal)

Ductus arteriosus: therapeutic approach based on hemodynamic evaluation

Laura R. Ment (USA)

Long-term influence of indomethacin on developing brain

17.30-18.00 CLOSING CEREMONY

HALL B

11.00-12.30 NEUROLOGY-1

Chairpersons: Egle Markuniene (Lithuania), David J. Durand (USA)

Laura R. Ment (USA)

Antenatal magnesium sulfate for neuroprotection before preterm birth

Eli M. Mizrahi (USA)

Clinical and electrographic diagnosis of neonatal seizures

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 NEUROLOGY-2

Chairpersons: Kviluna Daiga (Latvia), Laura R. Ment (USA)

Eli M. Mizrahi (USA)

Acute therapy and long-term outcome of neonates with seizures

Richard Polin (USA)

Systemic infection and brain injury in the preterm infant

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 HYPOTHERMIA

Chairpersons: Peter D. Gluckman (New Zealand), Eli M. Mizrahi (USA)

George Simbruner (Austria)

Induced systemic hypothermia

David J. Durand (USA)

Brain cooling for newborns with hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy

HALL C

11.00-12.30 RESEARCH

Chairpersons: Silvia Stoicescu (Romania), Georgios Konstantinidis (Serbia)

George Simbruner (Austria)

An European dream of neonatal education and research

Alan H. Jobe (USA)

Challenges of clinical research in neonatology

12.30-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 ETHICS-1

Chairpersons: Janez Babnik (Slovenia), Frantisek Bauer (Slovakia)

Tomris Türmen (Turkey)

The value and the rights of the newborn

Apostolos Papageorgiou (Greece, Canada)

Birth at the limits of viability: outcome, ethical and intracultural aspects

15.30-16.00 COFFEE BREAK

16.00-17.30 ETHICS-2

Chairpersons: José Lopez Sastre (Spain), Elena Sulima (Ukraine)

Hercília Guimarães (Portugal)

Ethics in neonatal intensive care

Aytuğ Atıcı (Turkey)

Neonatal pain treatment: ethical to be effective

Roger Soll (USA)

Ethics in neonatal research