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Welcome to the EGA IfWH '17th' Annual Conference & UCLH WH Division Audit Day 2022 - Report page.
This year the format included oral presentations from IfWH/UCLH Researchers presenting their work, and undergoing a Q&A session. Presentations were judged by our panel, and prizes awarded for the overall best performances.
In addition to this, as like every year, we had our poster presentations and prizes, with some posters presented in person and some via our e-poster page, as well as highlights from our Institute staff of the high profile research that has been undertaken.
At this meeting we celebrated how staff are delivering breakthroughs across women’s health. In neonatology we will learnt about innovations in identifying neonatal hypoxia using light technology, baby spectacles to improve visual outcomes, melatonin for neuroprotection and new surfactants to protect the lungs during ventilation. In maternal fetal medicine we highlighted placental function and oxygenation, the effect of steroids and outcomes after fetal growth restriction. Reproductive Health topics were wide-ranging and included the effect of chemotherapy on male infertility, the importance of abortion care and the menopause, with a lively debate on whether it is a hormone-deficiency disorder. In Women’s Cancer we learnt about cervical precancer, cervical cancer vaccination, endometrial cancer genetic testing, and molecular signals in breast cancer.
Our Keynote speaker Professor Dame Lesley Regan, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Imperial College London closed our conference detailing the Women’s Health Strategy in England and her role as the Government Women’s Health Ambassador.
Recordings and pictures of the event can be found below.
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Introductions to the Day, FPHS Update and Session 1: The Journey through Midwifery & Neonatal Care:
Session 2: Debate: Is Menopause a hormone deficiency disorder?
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Opening Poll
| Closing Poll |
Session 3: EGA Hospital Charity Presentations
Recording
PDF Presentation - Dr Robert Burnie
Session 4: Early Career Researcher Presentations:
Recording - Break Out Room 1 (Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Women's Cancer)
Recording - Break Out Room 2 (Reproductive Health, Neonatology)
PDF Presentation - A'Aishah Adebola
PDF Presentation - Emily Peacock
PDF Presentation - Rebecca Zikking
PDF Presentation - recording - Anabel Joseph
PDF Presentation - Tendayi Samuriwo
PDF Presentation - Aini Kamal
PDF Presentation - Jenny Hall
PDF Presentation - Raymand Pang
PDF Presentation - Reena Bhatt
PDF Presentation - Tania Castillo-Hernandez
Session 5: Medical Student Prize Talk - Saffa Chowdhury
Recording
PDF Presentation
Session 6: UCLH WH Division: Audit & Quality Improvement
Recording
PDF Presentation - Ms Nicola McDonald
PDF Presentation - Dr Raffaele Napolitano
Session 7: Hot Topics
Presentation - 'Why abortion matters more than ever' - Clare Murphy, Chief Executive, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
Session 8: EGA Key Note Lecture - Why do we need a Women's Health Strategy in England?
Professor Dame Lesley Regan (Professor of Obsetrics & Gynaecology, Imperial College London & Government Women's Health Ambassador)
Recording
Prize Categories & Winners
Oral Presentations - Winners
| Oral Presentations - Prize Category | Winner | Title |
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| Best Overall Medical Student | Saffa Chowdhury | Effect of antenatal corticosteroids on the abundance of maternal circulating angiogenic factors in pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restriction |
| Oral - Session 1 - First Prize | Rebecca Zikking | How do Antenatal Corticosteroids Improve Umbilical Blood Flow? |
| Oral - Session 1 - Runner up | Emily Peacock | Feto-Placental Oxygenation and Brain Development in FGR |
| Oral - Session 2 - First Prize (Joint) | Reena Bhatt | Adjuvant therapy with a fragment of Recombinant Surfactant Protein D improves lung compliance and reduces levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in ventilated preterm lambs |
| Oral - Session 2 - First Pize (Joint) | Raymand Pang | Melatonin shows promising neuroprotection in a piglet model of Neonatal Encephalopathy relevant to the low resource setting |
Poster Presentations - Winners
You can view all submitted poster abstracts by visiting the Poster Abstracts viewing page.
| Poster Presentations - Prize Category | Photo | Winner | Title |
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| Best Medical Student |  | Poppy Pierce | ADD IN |
| Best MSc, PhD or MD |  | Patricia Fadon | Preliminary results of a new therapy based on in vivo ovarian fragmentation for follicular activation in a premature ovarian insufficiency animal model |
| Best Clinician or Researcher |  | Luis Alberto Abrego Rangel | Early detection of ovarian cancer using multiple longitudinal biomarkers |
| Best Overall |  | Stefania Palmieri | Post-operative outcomes and Urodynamic findings after continence mesh remova |