Quality Care to Improve Outcomes of Sick Newborn Infants
- May 6 - 8, 2026
- Manila, Philippines
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.
The main objectives are:
1. To understand best care of the preterm infant, especially the moderate to late preterm infant
2. To develop basic knowledge of point of care hemodynamic and lung ultrasound
3. To understand evaluation and implementation of quality improvement for neonatal intensive care units
Faculty
- Jochen Profit
- University School of Medicine, Stanford CA, USA
- Josef Neu
University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA - Ju-Lee Oei
Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane Queensland, Australia - Nicholas Embleton
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK - Adrienne Gordon
University of Sydney, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia - Chor Yek Kee
Sarawak General Hospital, Sarawak, Malaysia - Chan Kok Joo
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Gillian Foo
Joan Kirner Women & Children’s, Sunshine Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Program
WED, May 6, 2026
THE SICK TERM NEONATE
08.00-08.30
Registration
08.30-09.00
Welcome and Opening Address
09.00-09.40
Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy and Hypothermia in LMIC
Jochen Profit
09.40-10.20
Enteral Feeding in Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy
Josef Neu
10.20-11.00
Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy for Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
Ju-lee Oei
11.00-11.30
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
11.30-12.30
Lunch break
12.30-13.10
Gut Injury and the Microbiome
Josef Neu
13.10-13.50
Risks and Benefits of Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
Nicholas Embleton
13.50-14.30
Shorter Versus Longer Duration Antibiotic Regimens for Neonatal Sepsis
Adrienne Gordon
14.30-15.00
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
15.00-15.30
Tea break
15.30-16.10
Optimizing Nurse Staffing Ratios in the NICU
Jochen Profit
16.10-16.50
Definition and Determinants of Neonatal Near Miss (NNM)
Adrienne Gordon
16.50-17.20
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
THU, May 7, 2026
THE SICK PREMATURE NEONATE
09.00-09.40
Understanding Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Josef Neu
09.40-10.20
Initiating and Advancing Feeds in the Premature Neonate
Nicholas Embleton
10.20-11.00
Controversy in Inhaled Nitric Oxide Use in Premature Infants
Ju-lee Oei
11.00-11.40
Reducing NICU Infection Rates Through Quality Improvement
Adrienne Gordon
11.40-12.10
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
12.10-13.10
Lunch break
13.10-13.50
Equity-focused Quality Improvement in the NICU
Jochen Profit
13.50-14.30
Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Neonates
Nicholas Embleton
14.30-15.00
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
15.00-15.30
Tea break
15.30-16.10
Scope and Goals of Neonatologist Performed Ultrasound
Chor Yek Kee
16.10-16.50
The Crashing Neonate Protocol
Chan Kok Joo
16.50-17.20
Question & Answer (Panel Discussion)
FRI, May 8, 2026
NEONATAL POCUS WORKSHOP
08.00-08.30
Registration
08.30-09.00
Welcome and Introductions
09.00-09.30
Applications of Point-of-Care-Ultrasound in Neonatology
Chan Kok Joo
09.30-09.45
Break
09.45-10.15
POCUS Basics: Ultrasound Knobology, Probes, and Modes
Chor Yek Kee
10.15-10.45
The Crashing Neonate Protocol
Chan Kok Joo
10.45-11.45
Station 1: Lung POCUS
Gillian Foo
11.45-12.45
Lunch break
12.45-13.45
Station 2: Brain POCUS
13.45-14.45
Station 3: Cardiac POCUS
Chan Kok Joo
14.45-15.45
Station 4: Abdominal POCUS
Chor Yek Kee
15.45-16.00
Question & Answer
All speakers
16.00-16.15
Closing
Subject to change
Target Audience
Neonatologists, fellows, nurses and pediatricians
Local Organizer
Philippine Society of Newborn Medicine in collaboration with the St. Luke's Medical Center
Main Sponsors
