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REGIONAL MATERNITY SURVEY OFFICE
NORCAS ANNUAL MEETING 2006
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20TH 2006 – THE EDUCATION CENTRE, JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Chair:
Dr Martin Ward Platt, Clinical Director, RMSO
09.30
Coffee and registration
10.00
Introduction to the day
10.05
Antenatal renal anomalies – a new way of service delivery
Dr Heather Lambert, Consultant Nephrologist &
Diane Wheeler, Senior Sonographer, RVI
10.20
Congenital renal fusion
Mr John Scott, Retired Paediatric Surgeon, RMSO
10.35
Update on in utero interventions
Dr Stephen Sturgiss, Consultant in Fetal Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary
11.05
Postmortem audit of antenatal findings in terminations for congenital anomalies
Dr Chris Wright, Consultant Perinatal Pathologist, Royal Victoria Infirmary
11.25
Coffee
11.45
Update on assisted reproduction – technology and service delivery
Dr Jane Stewart, Consultant in Reproductive Medicine, Newcastle Fertility Centre
12.15
Assisted conception & congenital anomalies
Dr Jenny Kurinczuk, Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist,
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
13.00
Lunch
Theme: Lifestyle risk factors and congenital anomalies
Chair:
Professor John Wilkinson, Director NEPHO
14.00
Systematic review of the effects of low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and
binge drinking
Dr Ron Gray, Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist,
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Oxford
14.30
Teratogens
Dr Simon Thomas, Reader in Therapeutics, Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology,
Univ of Newcastle
14.50
Substance misuse: Four years on, what have we learned?
15.10
Maternal obesity update
Dr Judith Rankin, Principal Research Associate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
15.30
Panel discussion – Lifestyle Risk Factors
16.00
Close
Dr Paul Moran, Consultant in Fetal Medicine, Royal Victoria Infirmary