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COOL TOPICS IN
NEONATOLOGY
2018 PROGRAM

Professor                      Dr Chris McKinlay           Professor
Nikki Robertson                                            Karen Simmer AO
University College,            University of Auckland,     University of
London                         New Zealand                 Western Australia

A/Professor                    Professor                   A/Professor
Tobias Strunk                  Stuart Hooper               Graeme Polglase
University of                  Hudson Medical              Hudson Medical
Western Australia              Research Centre, Victoria   Research Centre, Victoria

                                     COPLAND THEATRE
                                     Department of Business and Economics
Professor                            (The Spot Building), The University of Melbourne
David Burgner
                                     198 Berkeley Street,Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Murdoch Children’s
Research Institute, Victoria

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THE SPEAKERS
DR DOUG BLANK                                                  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JEANIE CHEONG

             Doug is a neonatologist, currently working                      Jeanie is a Neonatal Paediatrician at the
             at Monash and with PIPER, who came to                           Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne,
             Melbourne in 2014 to pursue a PhD after                         with expertise in neonatal neurology,
             completing a clinical NICU fellowship                           neuroimaging and long term follow up of
             in California. He had previously been                           high risk newborns. She is the Convenor of
re-educated as a fellow and locum consultant while             the Victorian Infant Collaborative Study group, a world
conducting resuscitation research at the RWH. Outside          leading research program of long term outcomes of
of work, he enjoys exploring Melbourne’s wonderful             extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight newborns
playgrounds with his sons, ages 6, 4, and 2.                   born in Victoria. She is also the medical/neurological
                                                               Team Leader of the Victorian Infant Brain Studies group,
DR ALICE BURNETT                                               which focuses on brain development and developmental
             Alice is a clinical neuropsychologist and         outcomes of high risk newborns. She will lead the
             research fellow specialising in the enduring      NHMRC-funded CRE in Newborn Medicine from 2019,
             impacts of early biological events like           taking over the successful program led by Professor Lex
             preterm birth on later cognitive, brain, and      Doyle over the last 10 years.
             behavioural development. Alice is a post-
doctoral researcher and knowledge translation fellow in        PROFESSOR PETER DAVIS

the Centre for Research Excellence in Newborn Medicine                      Peter joined the Women’s as a consultant
based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute                          neonatologist in 1993. He trained in
and a clinical neuropsychologist at the Royal Children’s                    Brisbane and McMaster University, Canada
Hospital in Melbourne.                                                      where he developed an interest in Clinical
                                                                            Epidemiology and Evidence Based
PROFESSOR DAVID BURGNER                                        Medicine. He continues to work clinically in Neonatal
               David is a paediatric infectious diseases       Intensive and Special Care Nurseries and remains
               physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital      involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education
               and an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow             at the Women’s. He became Professor/Director of
               at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.       Neonatal Medicine in 2009.
               He trained in paediatrics in the UK and         His team at the Women’s comprises young nurses
Australia and did his PhD on genetic susceptibility to         and doctors, many of whom undertake higher degrees
severe infection at Oxford University and at the Medical       through which they investigate ways to improve
Research Council unit in The Gambia, West Africa. His          outcomes of preterm and very unwell newborn babies.
current research and clinical interests include differential
susceptibility to neonatal and childhood infection and
the early infectious and inflammatory influences on the
risk of later non-communicable diseases. He is involved
in several national and international projects. These
include data linkage studies of early life determinants
of infection, the Barwon Infant Study, The Longitudinal
Study of Australian Children’s Child Health CheckPoint,
and Generation Victoria.

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                                  THE SPEAKERS
PROFESSOR LEX DOYLE                                           DR BRETT MANLEY

                Lex is a neonatal paediatrician with a                      Brett is a consultant neonatologist at
                major research interest in evaluating the                   The Royal Women’s Hospital and
                consequences of neonatal intensive care,                    a Senior Lecturer in the Department
                including how to improve on that care, and                  of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at
                its economic consequences. He has been                      The University of Melbourne. For his
a chief investigator on numerous randomised controlled        PhD, Brett studied the use of nasal high-flow as
trials of interventions before and after birth designed       post-extubation respiratory support for very preterm
to improve the outcome for the highest-risk babies,           infants. Supported by an NHMRC Early Career
including the tiniest and most immature babies. He is         Fellowship, and now an MRFF Career Development
active with several research groups interested in the         Fellowship, he has gone on to lead or supervise
outcome for tiny babies well beyond the nursery and           randomised trials of respiratory support in NICUs
into adulthood; these are the Premature Infant Follow-up      and non-tertiary centres. He is currently co-Principal
Program at the Royal Women’s Hospital, the Victorian          Investigator of the international, multicentre PLUSS trial
Infant Collaborative Study (VICS) Group, and the Victoria     of intra-tracheal budesonide mixed with surfactant to
Infant Brain Studies (VIBeS) Group.                           reduce BPD in extremely preterm infants.

PROFESSOR STUART HOOPER                                       DR CHRIS MCKINLAY

              Stuart is an NHMRC Principal Research                          Chris is a neonatologist at Kidz First,
              Fellow and Director of the Ritchie Centre                      Children’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
               at the Hudson Institute of Medical Research                   and Senior Lecturer at the Liggins Institute,
              and Monash University. He is a fetal and                       University of Auckland. He trained in
              neonatal physiologist whose research                           Auckland and Melbourne, and was awarded
focuses on fetal and neonatal lung development and its        a PhD in 2012 for studies relating to the late effects of
transformation into a functional gas-exchange organ at        antenatal corticosteroids. His research focuses on early
birth. Specifically, his research focuses on:                 life interventions for improving long-term metabolic,
» factors regulating normal and abnormal growth               neurodevelopmental and respiratory health outcomes.
  of the lung,
» the cardiovascular and respiratory transition
  at birth and
» how assisted ventilation of very preterm infants can
  be improved to avoid injury to the lungs and brain.
Stuart also leads a multi-disciplinary research team that
has pioneered the use of phase-contrast X-ray imaging
to image the entry of air into the lungs at birth.

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THE SPEAKERS
DR EOIN O’CURRAIN                                            DR TRISHA PRENTICE

               Eoin trained in Dublin, Ireland and                         Trisha is a consultant neonatologist and
               Melbourne and is a Neonatal Paediatrician                   serves on the clinical ethics committee at
               at the Royal Women’s Hospital.                              the Royal Children’s Hospital. She was the
               His research interests include improving                    inaugural William Kitchen Research Fellow
               the training of newborn resuscitation,                      at The Royal Women’s Hospital. She has
particularly in small and medium sized hospitals.            completed a Masters in Bioethics at Monash University
He is undertaking a PhD with the Newborn Research            and is currently undertaking a PhD examining the Moral
Centre investigating the teaching, monitoring and            Distress of healthcare professionals caring for Extremely
delivery of newborn mask ventilation.                        Low Gestational Age Neonates within neonatal intensive
                                                             care units. She has a special interest in the subjective
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GRAEME POLGLASE                          factors that influence end-of-life decision-making.
             Graeme is a perinatal physiologist,
             NHMRC career development fellow and             PROFESSOR NIKKI ROBERTSON

             Head of the Perinatal Transition Research                    Nikki is Professor of Perinatal Neuroscience
             Group based at The Ritchie Centre,                           at University College London (UCL) and
             Hudson Institute of Medical Research and                     Honorary Consultant Neonatologist at
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash                          University College London Hospital. Nikki
University. Dr Polglase is working to improve respiratory,                spent 4 years in Melbourne during her early
cardiovascular, and neurological outcomes of infants         neonatal training before completing her PhD at Imperial
born preterm; the single greatest cause of neonatal          College London in 2002.
morbidity and mortality. His findings continue to expand     Over the last 15 years at UCL, Nikki has been
our understanding of how key events during fetal             investigating new ways to protect the brain using a
development, birth, and post-delivery influence lung,        model of neonatal encephalopathy (NE) with agents
heart and brain inflammation and injury, with a vision to    such as melatonin, argon, post-conditioning and stem
improve immediate and long-term outcomes of infants          cells. Nikki’s work is targeted to both low and high-
born preterm.                                                income settings. The aim is to develop a balanced
                                                             therapy of compatible and complementary treatments
                                                             with maximal safety and efficacy for babies with NE.
                                                             Nikki has focused on cerebral magnetic resonance
                                                             spectroscopy as an early marker of brain injury in both
                                                             her pre-clinical and clinical studies. Nikki has published
                                                             >180 peer reviewed papers and leads a successful
                                                             translational research team.
                                                             Currently Nikki is in Doha, Qatar, helping to set up the
                                                             neonatal neurocritical care service in a new children’s
                                                             hospital – Sidra Medicine.

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                                  THE SPEAKERS
CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TOBIAS STRUNK                    PROFESSOR SUE WALKER AO

             Tobias is an early career researcher                           Sue is Director of Perinatal Medicine
             who was awarded his PhD on ‘Innate                             at Mercy Hospital for Women, and is the
             immune responses of preterm infants                            Sheila Handbury Chair of Maternal Fetal
             to Coagulase-negative staphylococci’                           Medicine, University of Melbourne. She is
             by the University of Western Australia                         lead of the Women’s and Newborn Health
in 2012. He completed specialist training in Neonatal/        theme, Melbourne Academic Centre for Health, and
Perinatal Medicine in Australia in early 2012 and since       Clinical Director of the Victorian Fetal Therapy Service,
then has been a full-time consultant neonatologist in the     a 3 centre collaboration responsible for fetal surgical
NICU at King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret            services in the state of Victoria. Her research interests
Hospitals (125 beds).                                         include disorders of fetal growth, stillbirth prevention,
His research interest is the immunological determinants       pre-eclampsia, and the impact of sleep disordered
of newborn susceptibility to invasive bacterial infection     breathing on obstetric outcomes.
and novel prophylactic and therapeutic interventions
to reduce disease burden, areas highly relevant to the
current proposal. Dr Strunk demonstrates a strong early
track record of productive and internationally recognised
research relative to opportunity.

PROFESSOR KAREN SIMMER AO

              Karen is the Professor of Newborn Medicine
              at the University of Western Australia and
              Co-Director of the NHMRC Centre of
              Research Excellence for preterm infants.
              She is a neonatal paediatrician and Director
of the NICUs at King Edward and Perth Children’s
Hospitals. She established the first Human Milk Bank in           MEETING AND
Australia. She leads the NHMRC PROTECT study – an                 REGISTRATION
international RCT aimed to reduce inflammatory brain               ENQUIRIES
damage in extremely preterm infants with late-onset
sepsis or NEC. Prof Simmer has qualifications from
Sydney, London and Harvard Universities. She was made
an Officer in the Order of Australia for her commitment
to paediatrics as an academic, researcher and clinician.
Prof Simmer was recently elected as a Fellow of the                                 REGISTRATIONS
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THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2018
TIME        SPEAKER           TOPIC

0730–0830                     REGISTRATION

0830–0835   Peter Davis       WELCOME

0835–0905   Brett Manley      Postnatal Steroids for BPD: What's New?

0905–0935   Chris McKinlay    Antenatal corticosteroids: More is better but will we pay later?

0935–1005   Karen Simmer      Donor milk – regulation and social responsibility

1005–1030   Discussion

1030–1100                     MORNING TEA

1100–1130   David Burgner     Infections in the newborn

1130–1200   Tobias Strunk     Neonatal defences and how to improve them

1200–1230   Discussion

1230–1330                     LUNCH

                              PROTECT COLLABORATORS MEETING

1330–1400   Jeanie Cheong     Long term outcomes of preterm birth: Beyond IQ and Cerebral palsy

1400–1430   Nikki Robertson   Inflammation sensitized neonatal brain injury – how do we detect it and treat it?

1430–1500   Discussion

1500–1530                     AFTERNOON TEA

1530–1600   Nikki Robertson   Melatonin the healing hormone: Is it ready for prime time?

1600–1630   Lex Doyle         What are we doing to the preterm lung?

1630–1700   Trisha Prentice   Moral Distress in NICU

1700                          CLOSE

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                                 FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018
TIME        SPEAKER             TOPIC

0730–0830                       REGISTRATION

0830–0900   Sue Walker          Life before Apgars: What’s new in Obstetrics

0900–0930   Peter Davis         Aerating the preterm lung at birth

0930–1000   Eoin O’Currain      Teaching mask ventilation

1000–1015   Discussion

1015–1045                       MORNING TEA

1045–1115   Stuart Hooper       Update in neonatal physiology

1115–1145   Graeme Polglase     When should we clamp the cord of an infant requiring resuscitation (the physiology)

1145–1215   Doug Blank          When should we clamp the cord of an infant requiring resuscitation (the babies)

1215–1230   Discussion

1230–1330                       LUNCH

1330–1400   Chris McKinlay      Neonatal hypoglycaemia: Is it a problem and what are we treating?

1400–1430   Alice Burnett       How does preterm birth affect the orchestra of thinking

1430–1500   Discussion

1500–1530                       AFTERNOON TEA

1530–1600   Nikki Robertson     Neonatal Seizures – an update from low and high resource settings

1600–1700   Panel and audience questions

1700                            CLOSE

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