Nutrition for Preterm Infants: Where are we now and what is the future?
- October 3 - 5, 2024
- Eurostars Oporto Hotel, Porto, Portugal
Objectives
IPOKRaTES seminars provide high quality postgraduate education which enables professionals to keep abreast of the most recent developments and offer participants the opportunity to discuss clinical problems or scientific issues personally with international experts.
This program will focus on:
- Discuss current controversies related to nutrition of the neonate such as donor milk use, parenteral nutrition strategies, enteral nutrition composition and advancement, microbial therapeutics and optimization of breast feeding.
- Appraise recent research related to optimization of nutrition for preterm infants.
- Discuss implementation strategies for scientifically based nutritional guidelines.
- Summarize recent advances in technology for evaluation of intestinal function.
- Generate novel research roadmaps for early recognition and prevention of adverse outcomes such as “Necrotizing Enterocolitis”, “Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia,”, Retinopathy of Prematurity", "Late Onset Sepsis" and "Growth Failure in preterm infants" using artificial intelligence/machine learning and multiomic integration.
Faculty
- Camilia Martin
Weill Cornell Medicine College, New York, USA - Josef Neu
University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville FL, USA - Deborah O'Connor
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Guilherme Sant'Anna
McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Program
THU, October 3, 2024
08.30-08.45
Introduction to program
Josef Neu, Henrique Soares
08.45-09.45
The Brain, Gut and Lung Axis: Clinical implications
Josef Neu
09.45-10.45
Intestinal morbidities and injury - a mismatch of developmental and expected competencies
Camilia Martin
10.45-11.15
Break
11.15-12.15
The association between fluids & nutrition during NICU stay and BPD
Guilherme Sant'Anna
12.15-13.30
Lunch
13.30-14.30
Donor Milk: From bench to bedside and back again: Improving health outcomes of hospitalized infants through mother’s milk, supplemental donor milk and lactoengineering
Deborah O'Connor
14.30-15.30
The evidence-based timeline informing current practices in parenteral protein delivery
Camilia Martin
15.30-16.00
Break
16.00-17.00
Precision nutrition for preterms using artificial intelligence: Is it possible?
Josef Neu
17.00-17.30
Panel Discussion
FRI, October 4, 2024
08.30-09.30
Feeding practices and lung aspiration: What do we know?
Guilherme Sant'Anna
09.30-10.30
The nutritional basis for recoverable function during and after the NICU period
Camilia Martin
10.30-11.00
Break
11.00-12.00
Human milk nutrient fortification – Gaps and opportunities to impact the health and development of the high-risk infant
Deborah O'Connor
12.00-13.00
Lunch
13.00-14.00
Continuous GI function monitoring in neonates: Is it possible?
Guilherme Sant'Anna
14.00-15.00
"NEC”: Past, present and future
Josef Neu
15.00-15.30
Break
15.30-16.30
Mother’s Milk intake by Very Low Birth Weight Infants and its association with epigenetic variations that may influence neurodevelopment
Deborah O'Connor
16.30-17.30
Round Table discussion, questions, and answers
SAT, October 5, 2024
08.30-09.30
Fatty acids in development, injury, and recovery - which ones, when, and why?
Camilia Martin
09.30-10.30
Ten dogmas in neonatal nutrition and GI: How to change?
Josef Neu
10.30-11.00
Break
11.00-12.30
Participant interaction with faculty. Discussions of current nutritional guidelines: What is science and nonsense?
Subject to change
Few Seats
Information
The number of participants is limited to 60
Participation Fees
Single person
- before September 19, 2024
400,00 Euro
- after September 19, 2024
450,00 Euro
Member of Portuguese Neonatal Society
- 400,00 Euro
Target Audience
Neonatologists, physicians and nurses caring for critically ill neonates and individuals involved in scientific research related to neonatal nutrition.
Local Organizer
Dra. Rita Magalhães Moita
Centro Hospitalar Universitário São João
Porto, Portugal
University
Division of Neonatology
IPOKRaTES Porto group – Faculty of Medicine of Porto
email: ritamagalhaesmoita@gmail.com
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