As previously announced, this year’s meeting is being held as a pre-congress meeting of the European Congress of Perinatal Medicine which runs from May 26 to 29. The cost is 50 euros which can be paid via the Congress web site. Please note the time below as it is incorrect on the congress web site. Our programme is below. You can pay on the door if you have notified us in advance that you are coming. Abstracts for the open session should be submitted before March 30 to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]

 

See you in Granada!

 

European Perinatal Epidemiology Network Meeting

Granada

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26

9:30 – 5:00

 

1.      International collaborations on severe maternal morbidity  9:30-11:15

-         Past studies in Europe and state of the art, Marie-Hélène Bouvier Colle

-         The UKOSS program in the United Kingdom, Peter Brocklehurst

-         The Nordic countries collaboration, Jens Langhoff Roos (to be confirmed)

-         The EPIMOMS project in France, Catherine Deneux, Marie-Hélène Bouvier Colle

-         German collaboration, Nicholas Lack

-         Discussion

(Coffee break 11:15– 11:30)

 

2.      Cohort studies 11:30-12:45 

-         Generation R – from fetal life until young adulthood in a multi-ethnic urban population in Rotterdam (Prof. Albert Hofman (to be confirmed))

-         Generation XXI – the first Portuguese birth cohort,  Sofia Correia

-         Overview of cohort projects in France, Béatrice Blondel

-         Cohorts of high risk infants, Elizabeth Draper

-         Discussion

(Lunch 1:00 – 2:00)

 

3.      Open session: themes for European research 2:30-3:45

-         Preconception care, Simone Buitendijk

-         Maternal mortality in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century,  Alison Macfarlane

-         3 other open sessions (abstracts to be submitted before 30^th of March).  

 

(3:45-4:00 coffee break)

4.      Raising the profile of European research in perinatal epidemiology 4:00-5:00

-         Priorities in perinatal epidemiological and health services research in Europe: results of a survey of EPEN members, Jennifer Zeitlin and Alison Macfarlane

-         Comments by Gérard Bréart and Peter Brocklehurst

-         Discussion on issues to develop in a white paper for the DG-Research

 

 

Alison Macfarlane
Department of Midwifery and Child Health
City University London
20 Bartholomew Close
London EC1A 7QN
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