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THE ROYAL WOMEN’S HOSPITAL PRESENTS
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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NOVEMBER 2018
COOL TOPICS IN NEONATOLOGY PROGRAM 2018
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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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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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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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
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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.
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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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