Scientific Program

Here is our event program

Wednesday

Welcome to Heraklion!
🍽️ Welcome Dinner at a Mediterranean Restaurant
20:00
Meeting at the hotel lobby: Walk to Restaurant Spora

Thursday 2 October 2025 – Session 1 – Perinatal Physiology & Endocrinology 🎤

Chairs: Nicoletta Iacovidou, Helmut Küster

09:00–09:15
Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Gabriel Dimitriou – Welcome to EWoN 2025
09:15–09:30
Karel Allegaert – Aminoglycoside target concentrations in neonates: peak, trough, or area under the curve?
09:30–09:45
Eleftheria Hatzidaki – Breastmilk melatonin and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm infants at nine months’ corrected age. Evidence from adjusted regression models in the ProMote Study
09:45–10:00
Serafina Perrone – Newborn bone health assessment using REMS: Initial validation of a novel approach
10:00–10:15
Mehmet Vural – Iodine status of Turkish pregnant women and their offspring: A national cross-sectional survey
10:15–10:30
Lyudmyla Zakharchenko – Delayed cord clamping for preterm deliveries <32 GA using ‘LifeStart’ trolley
10:30–10:45
Virginia Beretta – Neonatal autonomic and adrenocorticotropic features in newborns of mothers with gestational diabetes
☕ Coffee break

Session 2 – Brain, Pain & Organ Injury 🎤

Chairs: Jacob Aranda, Vineta Fellman

11:00–11:15
Frances Callaghan – Relationship between arginine/ADMA ratio and mortality in postoperative neonates
11:15–11:30
Antonia Charitou – Cardiac dysfunction in neonates of diabetic mothers due to marked hypertrophy of their right ventricle
11:30–11:45
André Graça – Neuroprotection and repair in perinatal brain injury
11:45–12:00
Verena Lehnerer – Early life serum NfL and GFAP as brain damage biomarker in perinatal asphyxia
12:00–12:15
Nicoletta Iacovidou – The effect of neonatal asphyxia on the ovarian histology of newborn piglets: an experimental study
12:15–12:30
Britt Nakstad – Extreme heat Impacts on neonatal health and wellbeing
12:30–12:45
Breda Hayes – The placenta in HIE
🍽️ Lunch break

Session 3 – Outcomes & Follow-Up 🎤

Chairs: Serafina Perrone, Sven Wellmann

13:45–14:00
Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer – Transition to home: improving outcomes of very preterm infants and families – a systematic review
14:00–14:15
Stanislava Hitrova-Nikolova – Neonatal outcome in newborns of mothers with diabetes mellitus
14:15–14:30
Cornelia Wiechers – Premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: neurocognitive development at age 2 years and body composition at primary school age
🏛️ 15:45 – Meeting at the hotel lobby, guided tour of the Archaeological Site of Knossos Palace, the most famous Minoan palace, and one of Europe’s most significant Bronze Age sites
🍽️ 19:00 – Dinner at Restaurant En Plo

Friday 3 October 2025 – Session 4 – Respiratory Care & Lung Development 🎤

Chairs: Egbert Herting, Kosmas Sarafidis

09:00–09:15
Jacob Aranda – Caffeine and/or Ibuprofen effects on biomarkers of alveolarization and microvascular maturation in neonatal rat lung
09:15–09:30
Egbert Herting – Lung function following premature birth until the age of 12 years
09:30–09:45
Matteo Bruschettini – The JACK Study: Justified Administration of Caffeine for Preterm Kids
09:45–10:00
Theodoros Dassios – Prone positioning and respiratory function in ventilated newborn infants
10:00–10:15
Nelly Jekova – Outcome of newborns with non-immune fetal hydrops - clinical challenges
10:15–10:30
Lars Mense – Surfactant administration during endotracheal CPAP – in between INSURE and LISA?
☕ Coffee break

Session 5 – Respiratory Interventions & Monitoring 🎤

Chairs: Gabriel Dimitriou, Esin Koç

10:45–11:00
Kosmas Sarafidis – A case–control study of gastric fluid metabolomics to predict the need for surfactant therapy in very preterm infants
11:00–11:15
Michel Holger – Pulse wave transit time measurement in neonates for estimation of cardiac output changes and non-invasive haemodynamic monitoring
11:15–11:30
Tomasz Szczapa – Application of NIRS monitoring in the neonate - what do we know in 2025?
11:30–11:45
Martin Wald – Recruitment manoeuvre on CPAP, is this new and is it actually possible
11:45–12:00
Colin Morgan – Evaluating complex clinical interventions: using bioelectrical impedance to support fluid management in sick term and preterm infants
12:00–12:15
Sally Ogden – Using simulation to influence design of a new departmental major haemorrhage policy
🍽️ Lunch break

Session 6 – Infection, Sepsis & Immunity 🎤

Chairs: David Corcoran, Heili Varendi

13:30–13:45
Christos Tsakalidis – Early markers of neonatal sepsis
13:45–14:00
Madalena Tuna – Newborn screening for congenital CMV – A new approach
14:00–14:15
Gabriel Dimitriou – From the brink of collapse to survival: A critically ill neonate with overwhelming multisystem dysregulation – unravelling the unknown
14:15–14:30
Olga Romantsik – Devices to improve success of peripheral vascular catheterization in newborn infants – a systematic review and meta-analysis
🏛️ 17:30 – Departure from the lobby of the Galaxy Hotel. The museum is within walking distance of the conference hotel
🏛️ 18:00 – Meeting at the Museum entrance. Guided tour of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, one of Greece’s most important museums, housing artefacts from the Minoan civilisation
🚶 19:30 – A gentle stroll in the city centre
🍽️ 20:00 – Dinner at Restaurant Pemptos Ntore

Saturday 4 October 2025 – Session 7 – Screening, Nutrition & Preventive Care 🎤

Chairs: Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Mehmet Vural

09:00–09:15
David Corcoran – Reliability of point of care capillary bilirubin measurement for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia risk stratification
09:15–09:30
Esin Koç – ROP in Larger and More Mature Preterm Infants: Incidence, risk factors and outcome
09:30–09:45
Livia Ognean – Vitamin D status at birth in very preterm infants in Romania
09:45–10:00
Zeynep Alp Ünkar – Early Prediction of ROP in Preterm Infants: Diagnostic Utility of 6PTC as a Biomarker of Oxidative Stress
10:00–10:15
Heili Varendi – Enteral feeding of very preterm infants – results from the national registry of preterm infants in Estonia
☕ Coffee break

Session 8 – Environment, Ethics & Emerging Concepts 🎤

Chairs: Karel Allegaert, Ursula Kiechl‐Kohlendorfer

10:45–11:00
Vineta Fellman – Neonatal auditory event-related potentials do not predict long-term outcome in very preterm infants
11:00–11:15
Thalia Papadouri – Provision of health care services in the neonatal intensive care unit – Archbishop Makarios III Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus
11:15–11:30
Sven Wellmann – Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in very preterm infants for improved neurodevelopmental outcome, state-of-the-art of latest clinical research
11:30–11:45
Helmut Küster – Comparison of outcome using three different SOPs to treat Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
11:45–12:00
Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Gabriel Dimitriou – Closing Remarks/Farewell
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