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2-4 PM Workshops
Cohort A: Neonatal resuscitation
Wally Carlo (global efforts to minimize asphyxia), Moisés Quiles-Corona (presentations in Mexico, Chile, El Salvadore, the Dominican Republican, and Zambia), and Ola Didrik Saugstad (global educational efforts; renowned for findings that room air is adequate for most infants needing resuscitation at birth).
Talks 30 min each; followed by discussion and demonstrations. Panel to include Ramadevi Pullela (US), Marisa Nimrod (T&T), Kei Lui (Australia), Vijayendra Ranjan Baral (Nepal-Singapore).
Cohort B: Neonatal Hematology
Christof Dame (Berlin, Germany) and Rachana Singh (Tufts, Boston; RBCs); Akhil Maheshwari (Boston Children's Physicians Group, NY; Leukocytes); and Brunetta Guaragni (Fresh-Frozen Plasma, Recombinant fVII, and Platelet Function tests as measured by Thromboelastography): 30 min each; followed by discussions. Panel to include Joe GN "Skip" Garcia (US), Edmund LaGamma (US), Srinivas Bolisetty (Australia), Chhaya Prasad (India), Arun Prasad (India).
Cohort C: Mother-Infant Health takes More than Medical Interventions
Chairs: Etel Barborka (Sweden), Manoj Shrivastava (India), Michel Silvestri (Sweden)
Talks: Sherrie Buddington (US), Fauzia Shah (India), Tariq Mahmood (India), Sonji Harold (US); Talks 20 min each; followed by discussion. Panel to include Suresh Singh (India), Mohammad Morshad Alam (Bangladesh), Randal Buddington (US), Mahmuda Sultana Asma (Bangladesh), Ranjan Dhungana (Nepal), Michelle Ross (Congo-Canada).
Cohort D: Neonatal Nutrition
Talks: Naveed Hussain (US; Policy, Equity, and Programmatic Strategies to Close the Neonatal Nutrition Gap); Muralidhar Premkumar (US) and Noorina Joosub (Mauritius; Innovations in Parenteral Nutrition for Low-Resource Settings); Pradeep Alur (US, Nutrition Surveillance and Growth Monitoring in the First 28 Days); Sushma Nangia (India; Early Total Enteral Feeding in preterm neonates): 30 min each; then discussion. Panel to include Srinivas Bolisetty (Australia), Moisés Quiles-Corona (México), Md. Mozibur Rahman (Bangladesh).
4-5 PM A surprise, followed by a Plenary: Professor Hugo Lagercrantz: Awakening of the Newborn. Emergence of Consciousness
5 PM
Uppsala University Vice-Chancellors reception with Prof. Anders Hagfeldt.
6 PM DINNER
©2025 Global Newborn Society, "Every Baby Counts"
Nov 3, 2025
7-8 AM: Breakfast arranged in the hotel of residence.
8:45 AM: Primary conference hall. 2 min introductions for each speaker.
8:45-9 AM: Welcome address: Prof. Jonas Bergquist, Senior academic leader and Inspector Equitandi, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Chairs: Waldemar "Wally" Carlo (USA) and Joe GN "Skip" Garcia (USA)
Panel of experts: Kei Lui (Australia); Michael Zemlin (Germany), Roya Huseynova (Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan), Sherri Buddington (USA), Marisa Nimrod (T&T), Jargalsaikhan Badarch (Mongolia), Aimen Ben Ayad (UAE), Ramadevi Pullela (USA), Vijayendra Ranjan Baral (Nepal-Singapore), Brian Sims (US), Srinivas Bolisetty (Australia), Moisés Quiles-Corona (México), Ola Didrik Saugstad (Norway), Bhavesh Patel (Australia), Tariq Mahmood (India), Francesco Mario Risso (Italy)
9-9:30 AM: Plenary: Waldemar Carlo, Professor - Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA; Patron, GNS 2003
Topic: Saving Lives at Birth
20 min talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
9:30-10:00 AM: Plenary (online): Kei Lui, Professor - Neonatology, University of NSW, Australia; Patron, GNS 2003
Topic: Making Changes Through Collaboration
20 min talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
10-10:30 AM: Plenary
Topic: Mother-Infant Healthcare Crisis in Central Africa
25 min presentation + 5 minutes for discussion.
10:30-11 AM: Plenary: Joe GN "Skip" Garcia, Professor - Molecular Medicine, Inflammation Science and Systems Medicine, University of Florida, USA
Topic: "DAMPening Innate Immunity Responses to Reduce Preterm Births
20 min talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
11-11:30 AM: Shared Plenary: Ramadevi Pullela, Pediatric Intensivist, California, USA; and Bhavesh Patel, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Topics: Ramadevi Pullela: Artificial Intelligence in Newborn Medicine; Bhavesh Patel: AI for My Patients' Journeys
Two 10 min talks + 10 minutes for discussion.
11:30-12 noon: Plenary: Srinivas Bolisetty, Professor - Neonatology, Medical Clinical Co-Director, Royal Hospital for Women, NSW, Australia
Topic: Challenges in Developing Consensus in Clinical Practice: Experience from the Australasian Neonatal Medicines Formulary
20 min talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
12 noon-12:30 PM: Plenary: Michel Sylvestri, Head - Coordination, Swedish eHealth Agency, Stockholm, Sweden
Topic: Protecting Privacy and the Data Treasury in the Post-Quantum World.
20 min talk + 10 minutes for discussion.
12:30-1 PM: A surprise, and a Plenary: Professor Ola Didrik Saugstad: Delivery Room Handling: Past, Present, and Future Aspects
1-2 PM LUNCH