Neonatology calls for papers / meetings & conferences

Call for Abstracts: 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention

Do you have something to say about the care of women and newborns? Now’s your chance! The call for presenters is open for the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, June 15-19, 2013.

Our national conference draws more than 3,000 attendees, approximately 72% have 15 or more years of experience, and 46% have a master’s degree or higher. Presenting at the AWHONN convention ensures that your talk, research, case studies or innovative programs will be heard or viewed by a highly skilled, sophisticated, and influential body of nurses.

Objectives of the 2013 AWHONN Annual Convention are to

• Integrate improvement science into practice,
• Experience inspiration and professional growth, and
• Strengthen connections and enhance collaborations.

For those interested in this opportunity, there are four application options:

1. Specialty Sessions
2. Research Presentations (Papers or Posters)
3. Innovative Program Presentations (Papers or Posters)
4. Case Study Presentations (Papers or Posters)

All abstracts are due no later than September 10, 2012.

For information on criteria, further instructions, and access to our electronic submission site, go to www.awhonn.org . If you have any questions, please contact Carolyn Schick at cschick@awhonn.org.

Call for Abstracts: 15th National Mother Baby Nurses Conference

Sponsored by the Academy of Neonatal Nursing and Mother Baby Education

September 5–8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois

The purpose of this conference is to provide current and clinically applicable information for prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care of the mother as well as infant care, both in the hospital and through transition to home. The educational sessions provide information to nurses and other health care professionals who care for the expectant and postpartum mother and her newborn. Specific objectives for each presentation will be listed in the conference program.

We are seeking poster presentations to compliment our line-up of world-class speakers. In keeping with our theme of examining current practice, we invite you to submit a poster abstract. Clinical, case study, and research posters are welcome. The topics for these posters should be relevant to the theme of the conference and the audience of mother baby nurses.

Abstracts for poster presentations are due July 2, 2012. Presenters will be notified by July 16, 2012.
 

Call for Papers: MICCAI Workshop on Perinatal and Paediatric Imaging: PaPI 2012

In conjunction with MICCAI 2012

October 1, 2012 Nice, France

MICCAI 2012, the 15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, will be held from 1st to 5th October 2012 in Nice, France, organised by Inria (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics). MICCAI attracts annually world leading scientists, engineers and clinicians from a wide range of disciplines associated with medical imaging and computer assisted surgery.

Workshop Topics

Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to:

- Imaging biomarkers from routine 2D fetal ultrasound screening

- Recent advances in 3D fetal/neonatal ultrasound and MRI

- Characterisation of developmental abnormalities

- Placental malfunction and maternal preeclampsia

- Congenital heart disease in the fetus, and effects on neurodevelopment

- Imaging lung function in the neonate

- Fetal abdominal imaging

- Intrauterine growth restriction and twin pregnancies

- Spatio-temporal atlases for organ development

- Multi-modality imaging of the fetus and neonate

- Long-term cognitive outcome

- Correlation of imaging biomarkers to functional and nutritional measurements

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the wider field of perinatal and paediatric imaging, to help bridge the gap between antenatal, obstetric, and neonatal healthcare (within the so-called perinatal period, which refers to the time immediately before and after birth), and follow-up monitoring by paediatricians, using a range of quantitative imaging techniques correlated to neurodevelopmental functional tests, that are not necessarily limited to the brain.

The link between fetal organ measurement and growth characterisation, and correlation with neonatal and paediatric outcome is still an open research topic, which this workshop is trying to address. Examples for delayed organ development are thought to be caused by (often a combination of) intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR), placental malfunction, intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia, amongst many other factors.

Monitoring developmental health, in a “womb-to-cot” approach, using perinatal imaging will enable to gain a better understanding in the interaction of these factors, develop tools to assess individual risk profiles, and provide opportunities for early intervention to improve paediatric outcome.

The target audience of this workshop will be a multi-disciplinary mix of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and obstetricians, neonatologists, paediatricians.

Important Dates (tentative)

01 June 2012 Workshop paper submission deadline

01 July 2012 Notification of acceptance

14 July 2012 Early Bird registration deadline

30 July 2012 Deadline for camera ready papers

01 October 2012 Workshop (half day: AM or PM TBA)

The submission system will open in May 2012.

Workshop format

PaPI will run as a half day workshop, with oral sessions, a poster session and a keynote lecture (TBA). Full-length paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and published online, as well as on the MICCAI workshop USB stick.