INFANT Research Day 2017

Friday 20 October 2017

This Research Day will share, promote and facilitate discussion on cutting edge, best practice perinatal research from international experts and early career researchers on how to improve health outcomes for pregnancy, infancy and childhood.

The event will take place in the Clayton Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork.

Registration Opens at 08:15.

Our Programme begins at 08:45 with a Welcome Address.

A poster session will take place at the break time.

Lunch will be provided to all attendees.

INFANT Research Day 2017 Programme

Pregnancy/Pre-eclampsia Session

Chair: Prof Louise Kenny

09:00 – KEYNOTE: Prof Richard McManus

Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure to Detect and Manage Hypertension During and After Pregnancy:

Can Women Do It Better?

09:45 – Dr Cathal McCarthy – Mitochondrial superoxide scavengers mediate endothlelial dysfunction in pre-eclampsia
10:00 – Eoin Roche – Analysis of comparable home / clinic blood pressure readings in the LEANBH population
10:15 – Sinead Flanagan – Periconceptual Maternal Alcohol Consumption and Subsequent Behavioural Outcomes at 2 and 5 Years of Age

Birth & Pregnancy Loss Session

Chair: Dr Keelin O’Donoghue

10:45 – KEYNOTE: Prof Anna David

Novel treatments for fetal growth restriction using gene therapy and other innovative approaches

11:30 – Indra San Lazaro Campillo – Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage hospital admission in Ireland: incidence, type of management and morbidity indicators
11.45 – Maeve O’Connell – Prevalence and associated risk factors of tocophobia in an Irish population
12:00 – Dr Karen McNamara – Intrapartum Death and Doctors: A Qualitative Exploration

12:15: Lunch & Poster Session

Neonatology/Nutrition Session

Chairs: Prof Gene Dempsey & Prof Mairead Kiely

13:00 – KEYNOTE: Prof Barry Schifrin

The Timing and Mechanism of Intrapartum Fetal Neurological Injury

13:45 – Dr Daragh Finn – Clamping the Umbilical cord in Premature Deliveries
14:00 – Dr John O’Toole – Temporal Evolution of Quantitative EEG within 3 Days of Birth in Early Preterm Infants
14:15 – Dr Karen Ni Cheallachain – Estimation of the dietary requirement for vitamin D in pregnancy
14:30 – Dr Áine Hennessey – No association between maternal or neonatal vitamin D status and atopic disease in 2- and 5-year-old children in the Cork BASELINE Birth Cohort Study

Bitesize Thesis

Chairs: Prof Fred Adam & Dr Ria O’Sullivan Lago

14.45 – Stacey Power – The Experience of Pregnancy with Major Fetal Anomaly
14.50 – Sarah Carter – Variation in the Risk of Labour Induction across NHS Trusts in the United Kingdom
14.55 – Rachel Williamson – Evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction in Pre-eclampsia
15.00 – Gillian Maher – Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Risk of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the Offspring: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
15.05 – Deirdre Hayes-Ryan – Placental Growth Factor
15.10 – Mark O’Sullivan – Neonatal Brain Stethoscope
15.15 – Alison O’Shea – Neonatal Seizure Detection using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Participant Experiences Session

Chair: Dr Ria O’Sullivan Lago

15:45 – 16:15 – KEYNOTE: Ms Sally Crowe

Research and Involvement

16:15 – Carla Gower – Understanding the Experiences of Fathers of Infants with Congenital Heart Disease
16:30 – Dr Deirdre Twomey – The Subjective Experiences of Parents Participating in the BiHIVE #2 Study
16:45 – Dr Sarah Meaney – When One Twin Dies: Parents’ Experience of Perinatal Palliative Care