3rd Annual Conference
29 September - 2 October 2007
Birmingham, UK
 
     
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Scientific programme (provisional)

 
SATURDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 2007

      Evening Welcome Reception

 


SUNDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2007

9:30
JOINT PLENARY
  N Long / J Gardosi
UK
Welcome and Introduction
  ISA Board   The Work of the International Stillbirth Alliance
  ISA Parents
 
ISA Parents Advisory committee
  S Guy
UK
A father's experience of the death of a baby
10:30     Coffee / Tea
11:00
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
  M Islam
SUI
WHO and stillbirth
  R Goldenberg
USA
Stillbirth in devloping countries
  D Manandhar
Nepal
Implementing perinatal mortality reviews
  S Guruvare
India
Rural satellite maternity centres improve perinatal outcome
  N Habib
Tanzania
Sociodemographic inequalities in perinatal mortality in Tanzania
12:10

Poster Session

  International fellowships
13:00     Lunch
14:00
UNDERSTANDING STILLBIRTH THROUGH AUDIT
  R Pattinson
SA
Perinatal audit in South Africa
  V Flenady
AUS
Unexplained antepartum fetal death in Australia
  K Casson
NI
Socio-economic inequalities in Stillbirths in N Ireland 1993-2002
  J Gardosi
UK
Perinatal mortality & ethnicity and social deprivation
15:20     Coffee / Tea
15:40
FETAL ACTIVITY AND GROWTH
  J Tveit
NOR
Epidemiology of decreased fetal movements
  R Fretts
USA
Prospective study of pregnancies with DFM
  L McCowan
NZ
Risk Factors for fetal growth restriction
  M Williams
UK
Confidential Enquiries into Stillbirths with IUGR
17:00
WORKSHOP: DEFINITIONS
  R Fretts
USA
Introduction; Overview of international variation
  G Guyon
CAN 
The use and misuse of stillbirth death rate
  I Radestad
SWE
When definition issues collide with abortion issues
17:45

General discussion

 
18:00
End of Day 1
      Mediaeval Banquet
      Back to main programme

 

 
MONDAY 1st OCTOBER 2007

8:15 ISA AGM
9:30
JOINT PLENARY
 
Sum-up
Overview of previous day (Bereavement & Scientific)
 
S Springall
UK
Life after stillbirth: a mother's experience
 
R Sharma
UK
Individual grief and cultural influences
10:30     Coffee / Tea
10:50
PLACENTA: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
 
S Gordijn
NL
Perinatal autopsy: considerations in a multicultural society
 
T Marton
UK
Value of placental examination in the absence of postmortem consent
 
F Korteweg
NL
Placental causes in 750 intrauterine deaths
 
M Parast
USA
Placental vascular changes in cord accidents
 
G Smith
UK
Markers of Placental Function and the Risk of Stillbirth
12:20

Poster Session

   
13:00     Lunch
14:00
POSTMORTEMS AND ANOMALIES
 
C Duke
USA
Postmortems in the identification of congenital anomalies
 
A Tonks
UK
Anomalies as a cause of high stillbirth rates in multi-ethnic communities
 
P Cox
UK
Postmortems in the diagnosis of growth restriction
 
A Charles
AUS
Postmortem Bacteriology
15:20     Coffee / Tea
15:40
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
 
R Goldenberg
USA
Infection and stillbirth
 
A Gordon
AUS
Intrauterine inflammation and stillbirth
 
C Blackwell
AUS
Parallels between SIDS and Stillbirths: a role for inflammation?
16:30
WORKSHOP: PROTOCOLS AND INVESTIGATIONS
 
U Reddy
USA
Work-up of stillbirths
 
L Matturri
ITA
Neuropathologic developmental abnormalities: common bases of stillbirth, SIDS and protocols
 
F Korteweg
NL
The place of thrombophilia work up
17:15
General discussion
   
18:00
End of Day 2
      Dinner & Dance
      Back to main programme

 

 
TUESDAY 2nd OCTOBER 2007

9:30
JOINT PLENARY
 
Sum-up
  Overview of previous day (Bereavement & Scientific)
 
S Pullen
USA
Life after stillbirth: hope with a heartbeat
10:15
Presentation of abstract(s) of Best Poster Prize
10:40     Coffee / Tea
11:00
ROUNDTABLE ON PREVENTION
  G Smith
UK
Researching Risk
  F Froen
NOR
The promise of fetal movement
  L McCowan 
NZ
Preventing SGA - the old and the new
12:00
Open Forum
   
13:00     Lunch
14:00
WORKSHOP: CLASSIFICATION I
  Roundtable   - Who/what is a classification system for?
    - What are the main challenges
 
S Gould
UK
Wigglesworth and New Aberdeen
 
V Flenady
AUS
PSANZ
 
JJ Erwich
NL
Tulip
 
F Froen
NOR
Codac
 
J Gardosi
UK
ReCoDe
15:45     Coffee / Tea
16:00
WORKSHOP: CLASSIFICATION II
 
V Flenady
AUS
Evaluation of Classification systems
 
M Griffiths
UK
Classification by 'avoidability'
 
R Pattinson
SA
Classifying perinatal deaths in South Africa
 
R Koshy
Malaysia
Applying modified Wigglesworth in Malaysia
16:40 General discussion    
17:00 - 17:30
Close of conference
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