2025 Hot Topics in Neonatology® Conference Schedule

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6:45 a.m.

Registration Opens

7:00 a.m.

Exhibit Hall Opens
Hot Breakfast and Digital Poster Showcase | Exhibit Hall

7:45 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions
Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE; Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA; Haresh Kirpalani, MD; and Jochen Profit, MD, MPH

8:00 a.m.

Little Details Are a Big Deal: Emerging Ideas in Tiny Baby Care
Moderator: Matthew Rysavy, MD, MPH

  • Fluid and Electrolyte Management in Infants Born at Less than 24 Weeks' Gestation — Johan Agren MD, PhD

9:30 a.m.

Morning Break Coffee Break With the Exhibitors | Exhibit Hall

10:00 a.m. 

Forgotten No More: New Evidence for Bigger Babies
Moderator: Elaine M. Boyle, MBChB, MSc, PhD

  • Surfactant or Not for Late Preterm and Early Term Babies?* — Elaine M. Boyle MBChB, MSc, PhD
  • Fluids Exclusively Enteral From Day 1: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Infants Born at 30 to 32 Weeks' Gestation — Shalini Ojha, PhD
  • The AIROPLANE Trial: Air or Oxygen at Birth for 32–35-Week Gestation Infants* — Louise Owen, MD

11:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)
Visit Exhibitors in Exhibit Hall
Digital Posters On-Display

1:00 p.m.

Precision Medicine in the Nursery: Precise for Whom?
Moderator: Connie Williams, MD, PhD, FRCPC

  • Implementing Genomics in Neonatal Care — Pankaj Agrawal, MBBS, MMSc
  • Genomic Uniform Screening Against Rare Diseases in All Newborns — Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
  • Embracing Complexity: Genetic Information in Neonatology — Katharine Press Callahan, MD, MSME

3:00 p.m.

Afternoon Break With the Exhibitors | Exhibit Hall

3:30 p.m.

Innovations in Surgical Mx
Moderator: Jochen Profit, MD, MPH

  • Milrinone in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia* — Satyan Lakshminrusimha, MD, MBBS
  • Nonsurgical Airway Treatment for Neonates With Severe Respiratory Distress and Oral Feeding Difficulty — HyeRan Choo, DDS, DMD, MS

5:00 p.m.

Sustaining Scientific Inquiry: A Timely Dialogue
Moderator: Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA

  • Assault on Scientific Research — Rebecca Simmons, MD

5:30 p.m. 

45th Anniversary Celebration Reception With Faculty | Exhibit Hall

6:30 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

Registration and Exhibit Hall Opens
Hot Breakfast and Digital Poster Showcase | Exhibit Hall

8:00 a.m.

The Jerold F. Lucey, MD Lectureship and Keynote Address
Moderator: Jochen Profit, MD, MPH and Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc

  • Milestones in the Development of Perinatal Quality Improvement — Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPH

Neonatology Luminary: Celebrating and Recognizing Dr. Rich Polin Impact in Neonatology

9:30 a.m. 

Morning Break With the Exhibitors | Exhibit Hall

10:00 a.m.

Clinical Trials Methodology Interpetation for Clinicians

  • When Has Enough Evidence Accumulated: Fragility Index
  • Ranked Outcomes for Clinical Trials

11:30 a.m.

Lunch (on your own)
Visit Exhibitors in Exhibit Hall | Digital Posters on Display

1:00 p.m.

Green and Rotten Apples
Moderator: Kevin Dysart, MD, MBI

  • NICHD Neonatal Research Network Management of the PDA Trial — Matthew M. Laughon, MD, MPH
  • Solving the Puzzle of Preterm Birth — David K. Stevenson, MD
  • Executive Function at School Age Following Early Enhanced Developmental Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial in Very Preterm Infants — Rita C Silveira MD, PhD

3:00 p.m.   

Afternoon Break With the Exhibitors | Exhibit Hall

3:30 p.m.

Phenotyping of Complex Lung Disease — Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
Moderator: Haresh Kirpalani, MD, MSc

  • Long-Term Pulmonary Outcome of Preterm Infants in the German Neonatal Network — Wolfgang Göpel, MD
  • How We Set About Phenotyping the Complexity of Acute RDS in Adults — Sinha Pratik, MD, PhD
  • Mapping Out the Phenotypes Within the BPD Label — Erik Jensen, MD, MSCE

5:00 p.m.

Happy Hour in the Exhibit Hall  

6:00 p.m.

Adjourn

7:00 a.m.

Registration and Exhibit Hall Opens
Hot Breakfast and Digital Poster Showcase | Exhibit Hall

8:00 a.m.

Updates in the Delivery Room Resuscitation
Moderator: Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE

  • Targeted Oxygen in the Respiratory Support of Preterm Infants and Their Developmental Outcomes — the Torpido 3060 Study — Ju Lee Oei, MBBS, FRACP, MD
  • Introducing the Delivery Room Intervention and Evaluation (DRIVE) Network — Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE
  • Prophylactic CPAP for Late Preterm Newborns Born Via C-Section: The PLaNT Study* — Edgardo Szyld, MD, MSc

9:30 a.m. 

Morning Break With the Exhibitors | Exhibit Hall

10:00 a.m.

Exhibit Hall Closes

10:00 a.m.

Green and Rotten Apples
Moderator: Jay S. Greenspan, MD, MBA and Eric C. Eichenwald, MD

  • The Safer Births Bundle of Care Program in Tanzania — Hege Langli Ersdal, MD, PhD and Robert Moshiro, MD, PhD
  • To Screen or Not to Screen: Assessing Cardio-Respiratory Instability at Newborn Discharge — Michael Narvey, MD, FRCPC and Benjamin Hoffman, MD

11:30 a.m.

Adjourn

*These session are under Embargo and will only be available during the live scheduled time.