The University of Glasgow, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Pregnancy Forum
The University of Glasgow, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences Pregnancy Forum is pleased to announce a Pregnancy Research Symposium to be held on Friday 2nd February
Queen Elizabeth University Hospital,
Learning and Teaching Centre,
Lecture Theatre
There are sessions on Maternal Obesity and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome and on Placental Function with guest speakers, Professor Baski Thilaganathan from St George’s Hospital and Elizabeth Cottrell from the Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester.
Please find below the link for registering for the Pregnancy Research Symposium. Registration is free;
PROGRAMME INFORMATION:
Glasgow Pregnancy Research SymposiumFriday
2nd February 2018, 10.00-15.30
Learning and Teaching Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Lecture Theatre
09.30 – 10.00 Tea and Coffee
10.00 Welcome
Dilys Freeman
Maternal Obesity and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
(Chair: Dilys Freeman)
10.00 – 10.30 David Carty
Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow
Management of T1DM in pregnancy- where we are and where we’re heading
10.30 – 11.00 Shahzya Huda
Forth Valley NHS/ Wishaw District General Hospital
How good is maternal BMI as an indicator of adverse pregnancy outcome?
11.00 – 11.30 Stamatina Iliodromiti
Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow
Customised and Non-customised Birth Weight Centiles and Prediction of Stillbirth
and Infant Mortality and Morbidity
11.30 - 12.00 Nicola Heslehurst
Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle
Supporting health professionals with routine antenatal weight management
practice
12.00 – 12.30 Lunch, LTC Atrium
12.30 – 13.30 QEUH GRAND ROUNDS
Professor Basky Thilaganathan
St George’s Hospital, London
Pre-eclampsia as a cardiovascular, rather than a placental, disorder
Placental function
(Chair: Delyth Graham)
13.30 – 14.15 Elizabeth Cottrell
Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester
Therapeutic potential of dietary nitrate supplementation in pregnancy
14.15 – 14.35 Hannah Morgan
Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow
Establishment of a model of superimposed pre-eclampsia in the pregnant stroke
prone spontaneously hypertensive rat by exposure to angiotensin II
14.35 – 14.55 Heather Small
Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow
Role of tumour necrosis factor-α and natural killer cells in uterine artery
function and pregnancy outcome in the SHRSP rat model
15.00 – 15.30 Short student presentations
Amaal Alrehaili - Adipose tissue function in gestational diabetes
Sonya Frazier - Ultrasound and Microbubble Targeted Gene-delivery to the Kidney
with Potential Application to the Placenta
Sharon Mackin - Diabetes and pre-eclampsia risk: the role of vascular function
Registration is free.
Please register for catering purposes at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-pregnancy-research-symposium-tickets-39617096803
First published: 20 December 2017