Each year, PREBIC members meet to discuss the latest developments in preterm birth research, identify knowledge gaps, and plan future projects. This meeting is attended by clinicians, scientists and academics from a wide range of countries. This multidisciplinary team bring significant expertise and a wealth of resources to PREBIC projects.
In 2015, this meeting will be held in Florence, Italy at the Preis School, Instituto Degli Innocenti. The meeting will run for three full days on Friday 8th, Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th May.
MEETING PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 8TH MAY 2015
SESSION 1 – PREBIC: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Session Chair - Hanns Helmer MD
PREBIC Vice President; Department of Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Medical University
Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Discussion Facilitator – David OlsonPhD
PREBIC Board Member, Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics & Physiology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
0830-0840 Official Welcome and Meeting Overview
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
0840-0900 PREBIC’s future directions
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
0900-0920 Q&A Session re: PREBIC future directions
Moderator – Melanie White BMedSci(Hons)
PREBIC Treasurer, Research Programme Manager – Perinatal Genomics, The University of Western Australia
0920-1000 State of the Art Lecture 1
Aging begins in utero; may signal parturition
Ramkumar Menon PhD
PREBIC Board Member (Past President), Assistant Professor University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
1000-1030 Morning Tea
1030-1130 State of the Art Lecture 2
Placental microbiome – friend or foe?
Indira Mysorekar PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
1130-1200 OPERA – Development, progress and the future
David OlsonPhD
PREBIC Board Member, Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics & Physiology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
1200-1300 Working Group Presentations
Achievements since the 2014 meeting and plans for 2015
New Investigators
Systems Biology & PGP
Nutrition
Biomarkers & PBP
Epidemiology
Global Initiatives
1300-1400 Lunch
SESSION 2 – EXTREME PRETERM BIRTH
Session Chair – Siobhan Dolan MD MPH
Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Discussion Facilitator – Bo Jacobsson MD
Professor/ chief physician, The Sahlgrenska Academy Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1400- 1440 State of the Art Lecture 5
The management of the woman at risk of extreme preterm birth; prevention rather than cure
Phillip Bennett MB BS MRCOG MD PhD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology to Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust at Queen Charlottes and Hammersmith Hospitals
1440-1510 Birth between 16 and 24 weeks – does it matter?
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1510-1530 Facilitated Discussion
Is it time for definitions of preterm birth to change?
Does PREBIC have a role?
1530-1600 Afternoon tea
1600-1730 Working group discussions - Tidying up loose ends
New Investigators
Systems Biology & PGP
Nutrition
Biomarkers & PBP
Epidemiology
Global Initiatives
1730-1830 Drinks to celebrate 14 years of PREBIC
SATURDAY 9TH MAY 2015
SESSION 3 – IATROGENIC PRETERM BIRTH – THE POOR COUSIN TO SPONTANEOUS PRETERM BIRTH?
Session Chair - Regina Torloni MD PhD
Post-Graduate Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Department of Internal Medicine, São Paulo Federal University, Brazil; Assistant Director of the Brazilian Cochrane Centre
Discussion Facilitator –Joseph Hwang MD FACOG
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School
0830-0920 State of the Art Lecture 3
Nutrition and Pregnancy Outcome
Bo Jacobsson MD
Professor/ chief physician, The Sahlgrenska Academy Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gothenburg
0920-0935 Iatrogenic preterm birth – the poor cousin to spontaneous preterm birth?
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
0935-1000 Facilitated discussion – PREBIC's potential role in prevention of preterm birth secondary to pre-eclampsia
1000-1030 Morning tea
1040-1120 State of the Art Lecture 4
Prevention of preterm birth secondary to fetal growth restriction
Gian Carlo Di Renzo MD
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
1120-1200 INTERGROWTH Fetal Growth Charts – will these reduce the rate of iatrogenic preterm birth for intrauterine growth restriction?
Jane Hirst MBBS MPH FRANZCOG PhD
Nuffield Medical Fellow, University of Oxford, INTERGROWTH-21st Consortium
1200-1230 Facilitated discussion – PREBIC’s potential role in prevention of preterm birth secondary to intrauterine growth restriction
1230-1330 Lunch
SESSION 4 - PRETERM BIRTH PREVENTION IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES
Session Chair – Nanbert Zhong MD PhD
PREBIC Board Member; Head, Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York, USA
Discussion Facilitator – Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1330-1400 WHO and March of Dimes – Coordinating international preterm birth research
Joe-Leigh Simpson MD, FACOG, FACMG, FROCOG
SVP Research and Global Programs March of Dimes
A. Metin Gulmezoglu MD PhD
World Health Organisation
1400-1430 A global view of interventions to prevent preterm birth
Hanns Helmer MD
PREBIC Vice President; Department of Obstetrics & Maternal-Fetal Medicine,
Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
1430-1500 Practical considerations for PTB prevention research in LMIC
A. Metin Gulmezoglu MD PhD
World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
1500-1530 Afternoon tea
1530-1600 PREBIC Guidelines for the global prevention of PTB
How does a guideline become a WHO guideline?
A. Metin Gulmezoglu MD PhD
World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
1600-1700 Facilitated Discussion – PREBIC Guidelines for the global prevention of PTB
Round table discussion facilitated by Craig Pennell and A. Metin Gulmezoglu.
Scope, timelines, literature review, expertise and resources required
SUNDAY10th MAY 2015
SESSION 5 – PRETERM BIRTH PREVENTION – IS IT POSSIBLE?
Session Chair: Ronald Lamont MD FRCOG
Professor , Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Odense University Hospital
Discussion Facilitator: Phillip Bennett MB BS MRCOG MD PhD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology to Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust at Queen Charlottes and Hammersmith Hospitals
0830-0915 State of the Art Lecture 6
Preterm birth prevention – what is known and what is unknown?
Angharad Care BSc, MRCOG
Clinical Research Fellow, Liverpool University/Liverpool Women's Hospital
0915-0945 Reducing rates of preterm birth in the United States – how did they do it?
Siobhan Dolan MD MPH
Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
0945-1000 Facilitated discussion
1000-1030 Morning Tea
1030-1130 A molecular solution to the progesterone conundrum
Sam MesianoPhD
Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
1130-1200 The Odon Device
Dr Mario Merialdi MPH MD
Becton Dickinson and Company, Advisory Board Member - Maternal and Neonatal Directed Assessment of Technology
1200 – 1215 New PREBIC Publication
Ronald Lamont MD FRCOG
Professor , Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Odense University Hospital
1215 -1300 Lunch
SESSION 6 – THE FUTURE OF PREBIC
Session Chair - Ramkumar Menon PhD
PREBIC Board Member (Past President), Assistant Professor University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Discussion Facilitators
Joshua Vogel MD PhD
World Health Organisation
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1300-1430 PREBIC Guidelines for the global prevention of PTB
A strategic approach to guideline development
Melanie White BMedSci(Hons)
PREBIC Treasurer, Research Programme Manager – Perinatal Genomics, The University of Western Australia
Round table discussion facilitated by Craig Pennell and Hanns Helmer
Moving forwards, deliverables, completion and publication
1500-1530 PREBIC Annual General Meeting
Chair - Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
1530-1600 Afternoon tea
1600-1700 Working group summaries
1700-1715 The future of PREBIC Roundtable Discussion
What should PREBIC be tackling: discovery research, international collaborative research, guidelines, changing preterm birth definitions, preterm birth prevention, other topics?
1715-1730 Closing comments
Craig Pennell MBBS(Hons) PhD(Dist) FRANZCOG CMFM
PREBIC President, Associate Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
