Conference Announcement: Neocon 2007 (December 13-16, Pune, India), "Towards Intact Survival"

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Dear Netters,

Please note an announcement for an upcoming Neonatal Conference hosted by NNF Pune Branch & Armed Forces Medical College and scheduled in December 13 to 16 at Pune, India. Many renowned neonatologists from India, USA, Australia and Europe are presenting their work at this very high powered conference.

For more information about the conference and registration please visit the conference website:

www.neocon2007.org

Additional information can be obtained from Dr. Umesh Vaidya (91-98220-31151) or kemnicu@yahoo.com .

In addition, a neonatal nursing conference is also simultaneously arranged at the same venue. Details of nursing conference are yet to be finalized.

We hope to see you all there!

Sincerely,

Nitin

Nitin Chouthai, MBBS, DCH, MRCP (UK), FAAP

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Division of Neonatology

Children's Hospital of Michigan

Wayne State University

Tel: 732 710 1624

Pager: 0049

Neocon 2007

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Dates: 13-16 December, 2007

Website: www.neocon2007.org

Hosts:

NNF Pune Branch & Armed Forces Medical College

Venue: AFMC Campus.

Theme: “Towards Intact Survival”

Dr. Umesh Vaidya (91-98220-31151) or kemnicu@yahoo.com

Conference Program as follows:

13th December, 2007 WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS

Basic ventilation

Advanced ventilation

Emergency stabilization and procedures

Neurodevelopmental follow up

TPN, fluid electrolyte balance

Evidence Based Medicine

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME : CME

CME I: For the Practicing Pediatricians

14th December 2007 - 08.00 - 17.30 hours

08.00 - 11.00 Symposium 1: The Preterm Infant

Chairs: Shashi Vani - Ahmedabad, Saroja Balan - Delhi

08.00 - 08.45 Jaundice: promoting the best practices - Arvind Saili, Delhi

08.45 - 09.30 Emerging Antibiotic resistance in sepsis: What is the solution? - David Issacs, Australia

09.30 - 10.15 Patent Ductus Arteriosus - David Osborn, Australia

10.15 - 11.00 Hematological issues in NICU - Lt. Col. R Holla, Delhi

BRUNCH

11.30 - 13.45 Symposium 2: Nutrition / Gastro-Intestinal

Chairs: Armida Fernadez - Mumbai, B Bhattacharya - Kolkatta

11.30 - 12.15 Search for optimal nutritional supplement for LBW - Karen Simmer, Australia

12.15 - 13.00 Post - Discharge Nutrition - Siddharth Ramji, Delhi

13.00 - 13.45 Use of probiotics in new born with special reference to NEC - Anil Narang, Chandigarh

HIGH TEA

14.30 - 17.00 Mini Symposium 1: NICU Practices

Chairs: Prem Sheth - Mumbai, Rahul Verma - Mumbai

14.30 - 15.15 Malpractice issues - Neelam Kler, Delhi

15.15 - 16.00 Medication errors / Latrogenic problems - Surg Cdr Girish Gupta, Mumbai

16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Innovations and ideas for a low cost NICU

Moderator:

Ashok Deorari - Delhi

Panelist:

Arti Maria - Delhi, Sunil Monga - Delhi, Vidya Gupta - Delhi,

Uma Nayak - Baroda

18.30 hours Inauguration Ceremony

20.30 hours Reception Committee Dinner

CME II: For the Neonatal Intensivist

14th December 2007- 08.00 - 17.30 hours

08.00 - 11.00 Symposium 3: Mechanical Ventilation

Chairs: Vinod Bhutani - USA, Praveen Kumar - Chandigarh

08.00 - 08.45 Non - invasive ventilation - Vivek Narendran, USA

08.45 - 09.30 Volume Ventilation - Sunil Sinha, U.K.

09.30 - 10.15 Newer ventilation strategies: Do they really make a difference - Eudardo Bancalari, USA

10.15 - 11.00 Current status of high frequency ventilation - Donald Null, USA

BRUNCH

11.30 - 13.45 Symposium 4: Endocrine/Metabolic

Chairs: Sudha Chaudhari, Pune RS Sethi- Jhansi

11.30 - 12.15 Inborn errors of metabolism - Breaking the code - Madhulika Kabra, Delhi

12.15 - 13.00 Persistent hypoglycemia: Sweet solution to bitter problem - Sherin Devaskar, USA

13.00 - 13.45 Clues to Endocrinal diagnosis in neonatal period - Vaman Khadilkar, Pune

HIGH TEA

14.30 - 17.00 Mini Symposium 2: Surfactant

Chairs: Uday Devaskar-USA, Umesh Vaidya- Pune

14.30 - 15.15 Lessons learnt from exogenous surfactant - Alan Jobe, USA

15.15 - 16.00 Surfactant deficiency in the term newborn - Jeffrey Whitsett, USA

16.00 - 16.30 Surfactant: Indian scenario - Praveen Kumar, Chandigarh

16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Debatable issues in intensive care

Moderator:

Arvind Shenoi - Bangalore

Panelist:

Satish Saluja - Delhi, Srinivas Murki - Hyderabad, Suman Rao - Bangalore, Ramesh Agarwal- Delhi

18.30 hours Inauguration Ceremony

20.30 hours Reception Committee Dinner

CME III: The way ahead...

14th December 2007- 08.00 - 17.30 hours

08.00 - 11.00 Symposium 5: Organ Injury

Chairs: Deepak Guha - Delhi, S Shanmugasundram - Chennai

08.00 - 08.45 Perinatal kidney - Jean P. Guignard, Switzerland

08.45 - 09.30 Lung injury - Phyllis Dennery, USA

09.30 - 10.15 Skin injury and repair - Stephen Hoath, USA

10.15 - 11.00 Intracranial hemorrhage - Shankar Narayan, Delhi

BRUNCH

11.30 - 13.45 Symposium 6: Respiratory

Chairs: MMA Faridi - Delhi, G. Prabhakaran - Chennai

11.30 - 12.15 PPHN - Ganesh Konduri, USA

12.15 - 13.00 Chronic lung disease: What is new - Sunil Sinha, U.K.

13.00 - 13.45 Meconium Aspiration Syndrome: Insights - Uma Raju, Pune

HIGH TEA

14.30 - 17.00 Mini Symposium 3: Circulation

Chairs: Jagadish Chandra - Hyderabad, Arvind Shingwekar - Gwalior

14.30 - 15.15 Choice of inotropic agents - David Osborn, Australia

15.15 - 16.00 Interventional cardiology: What is available? - Krishna Kumar, Kochi

16.00 - 17.00 Panel Discussion: Emerging issues in ELBW care

Moderator:

Vinod Paul - Delhi

Panelist:

Siddharth Ramji - Delhi, Sushma Kaul - Delhi, Naveen Jain - Trivendrum, Karen Simmer - Australia

18.30 hours Inauguration Ceremony

20.30 hours Reception Committee Dinner

MAIN CONVENTION DAY: DAY 2

16th December 2007- 07.30 - 17.00 hours

07.30 - 09.00 Breakfast Sessions (Meet the Experts)

Breakfast Session 4: Applying for research project How? Where? Sherin Devaskar - USA, Shinjin Bhatnagar - Delhi

Breakfast Session 5: Research presentations (Making a Power point Presentation / Poster) Ranjan Pejawar - Bangalore, Girish Gupta - Mumbai

Breakfast Session 6: Grand Rounds Meet the Professors Alan Jobe - USA, Geeta Gathwala - Rohtak, Richard Martin - USA

09.00 - 10.30 Guest Lectures

Chairs: Anand Pandit - Pune, Santosh Bhargava - Delhi

09.00 - 09.30 Intrauterine growth charts - Swarnarekha Bhat, Bangalore

09.30 - 10.00 Pune LBW study - Sudha Chaudhari, Pune

10.00 - 10.30 Fetal origins of Adult disease - Chittranjan Yajnik, Pune

09.00 - 10.30 Guest Lectures

Chairs: Vinod Bhutani - USA, S. Jayam - Chennai

09.00 - 09.30 Fluid electrolyte management - Jeane P. Guingard, Swtizerland

09.30 - 10.00 Apnea of Prematurity - Richard Martin, USA

10.00 - 10.30 HIE: Are newer approaches any better? - Seetha Shankaran, USA

10.30 - 11.30 Poster Plenary

Chairs: NB Mathur - Delhi, Krishna Diwakar - Kochi

11.30 - 12.30 Social Neonatology Award Papers

Chairs: Arvind Saili - Delhi, Harish Chellam - Delhi

12.30 - 13.30 Concurrent Free Papers IV

Chairs: T S Raguraman - Bangalore, P P Maiya - Bangalore

12.30 - 13.30 Concurrent Free Papers V

Chairs: Brig P K Sarkar - Bangalore, Shikhar Jain - Indore

12.30 - 13.30 Concurrent Free Papers VI

Chairs: Omkar Bhakoo - Chandigarh, Karthik Nagesh - Bangalore

LUNCH

14.15 - 15.45 Concurrent Symposia 4 - Bacterial Infections

Chairs: Uday Bodhankar - Nagpur, Ashok Kumar - Varanasi

14.15 - 14.45 Early diagnosis of sepsis - Saurabh Datta, Chandigarh

14.45 - 15.15 Fungal sepsis - Harish Chellani, Delhi

15.15 - 15.45 Sepsis beyond antibiotics - Sushma Nangia, Delhi

14.15 - 15.45 Concurrent Symposia 5 - Atypical Infections

Chairs: BD Bhatia - Varanasi, Raj Kumar Kayal - Guwahati

14.15 - 14.45 Diagnosis of TORCH infections - Dinesh Chirla, Hyderabad

14.45 - 15.15 CMV infection - Umesh Vaidya, Pune

15.15 - 15.45 Perinatal HIV - Raman Gangakhedkar, Pune

16.00 - 17.00 NNF Quiz

17.00 - 17.15 Valedictory Function