Conference Program
23
May
08:30 – 10:00
Arrival – Registrations – Coffee
10:00 – 10:30
Greetings
Ioanna Koutrouvi, President of Cerebral Palsy Greece / Open Door
10:30 – 11:30
Part 1: Introduction
Antigone Papavasiliou, Paediatrician-Neurologist, Greece
10:30 – 11:00
Epidemiology of CP. Why this condition continues to be the most common motor childhood disability to the present day
Catherine Arnaud, Prof. of Epidemiology, France
11:00 – 11:30
Neuroimaging findings in NICU with prognostic significance for CP
11:30 – 13:30
Vana Papaevangelou, Prof. of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Greece
11:30 – 12:00
Genetic factors that need to be considered prior to conception
12:00 – 12:45
Preconceptual risk factors for CP, with or without restriction of fetal growth
Gija Rackauskaite, Paediatric Neurologist, Denmark (Virtual)
12:45 – 13:30
Genetic findings in patients with CP in Greece
Argyrios Dinopoulos, Prof. of Paediatric Neurology, Greece
Katerina Anagnostopoulou, Molecular Geneticist, Greece
13:30 – 14:15
Break – Light Lunch
14:15 – 15:45
George Vartzelis, Assistant Prof. of Paediatric Neurology, Greece
14:15 – 14:45
Multiple births and assisted reproduction
14:45 – 15:15
CP in children born after assisted reproductive technology in Norway: Risk, prevalence and clinical characteristics
Sandra Julsen Hollung, Health Data Scientist/Researcher, Norwegian Quality and Surveillance Registry for Cerebral Palsy (NorCP), Norway
15:15 – 15:45
Prenatal diagnosis of risk factors for CP from the obstetrician’s perspective
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee break
16:15 – 18:15
Maria Tsolia, Prof. of Paediatrics & Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Greece
16:15 – 16:45
Congenital infections – CMV
16:45 – 17:15
Neurodevelopmental outcome in children with congenital CMV infection
Ivana Đakovic, CCPR, Croatian Register of Children with Cerebral Palsy, Zagreb, Croatia
17:15 – 17:45
Neuroimaging during pregnancy and its contribution to prevention
Chrysanthi Chlapoutaki, Assistant Prof. of Radiology, Paediatric Radiologist, Greece
17:45 – 18:15
A general overview of prenatal risk factors for CP
Kate Himmelman, Adj. Prof. of Paediatrics, Sweden
18:30 – 20:00
Closing of Day 1 – Reception
24
May
09:00 – 10:00
Arrival – Coffee
10:00 – 12:00
Aris Antsaklis, Prof. of Obstetrics / Gynecology, Greece
Nicoletta Iakovidou, Prof. of Paediatrics – Neonatology, Greece
Antonia Charitou, Pediatrician-Neonatologist-Intensivist, President of the Hellenic Society of Perinatal Medicine
10:00 – 10:30
Monitoring of pregnancy with Cardiotocography
10:30 – 11:00
Management of FGR and preterm birth, as risk factors for cerebral palsy
Georgios Daskalakis, Prof. of Obstetrics/ Gynecology and Perinatal Medicine, Greece
11:00 – 11:30
Midwifery Care for the Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in the Perinatal Period: Before It Is Too Late
Dimitra Metallinou, Ass. Professor, Department of Midewifery, University of West Attica, Greece
11:30 – 12:00
International diagnostic criteria for perinatal asphyxia
Petros Chiridis, Gynaecologist/ Obstetrician/ Embryologist, Greece
12:00 – 13:30
Part 5: The neonatal period
Helen N. Skouteli, Paediatric Neurologist, President of ELEPAP, Greece
12:00 – 12:30
CP epidemiology in premature babies
12:30 – 13:00
Prematurity and risk factors for CP
Eleni Bouza, Paediatrician / Neonatologist, Greece
13:00 – 13:30
Neonatal Neuroimaging Classification System – analysis of patterns of NNICS in the SCPE database
Veronka Horber, Paediatrician, Department of Paediatric Neurology, University Children’s Hospital, Germany
13:30 – 14:30
Break – Light Lunch
14:30 – 15:30
Ioanna Sgouromalli, Paediatrician/Paediatric Neurologist, Greece
14:30 – 15:00
Postnatal risk factors – SCPE data
15:00 – 15:30
Some post-natal causes of CP are preventable
Dimitrios Zafeiriou, Prof. of Paediatric Neurology/Developmental Neurology
15:30 – 16:40
Gerasimos Zervos, Paediatric Surgeon, Greece
15:30 – 16:00
Norwegian Guidelines for diagnosing CP
16:00 – 16:40
Risk factors for CP in Greece (The Attica Registry)
Antigone Papavasiliou, Paediatrician-Neurologist, Greece
16:40 – 17:00
Break – Coffee
17:00 – 18:30
Christos S. Bartsocas, Prof. Emeritus of Paediatrics, Greece
Constantinos Pangalos, Ass. Prof. of Medical Genetics, France
17:00 – 17:30
The child with cerebral palsy and its family
Daphne Economou, Parent, Honorary President of Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door, Greece
17:30 – 18:00
Transition of care from stage to stage
18:00 – 18:30
Why Europe needs to have a policy on CP – Building on the Manifesto for CP
John Coughlan, Secretary General of the International Cerebral Palsy Society and the European Cerebral Palsy Society, Luxembourg
18:30 – 19:00
Closing of the Conference
19:30
“My beautiful swallow”
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