Course “Pre- and perinatal determinants of health in child- and adulthood” 2015 Sep 29

The aim is to bring together experts from clinical and preclinical side of reproductive biomedicine and deliver up-to-date knowledge to junior doctors, PhD students, PostDocs and early stage reseachers from Estonia and other European countries.
Lectures covers hot topics in pre- and perinatal biomedicine focusing on the impact of the pregnancy course and its determinants on the future health of the child and the mother.

Key dates:
Registration: Febuary 1, 2015 – April 15, 2015
Abstracts submissions: February 1, 2015  – March 20,2015
Notification of oral/poster presentations: April 1, 2015
The language of the event is English. The participation is for free.

Confirmed lecturers:

•  Prof. Peter Damm, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
  

Title of his lecture: Gestational diabetes – short and long-term consequences for mother and offspring

• Prof. Johan Eriksson, University of Helsinki, Finland

Title of his lecture: Importance of early life for later health outcomes--findings from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

• Dr. Rachel Freathy, University of Exeter Medical School, UK

Preliminary topic: The growth of a fetus in utero and its association with type 2 diabetes in adulthood

• Dr. Nick Harvey, University of Southampton, UK
  

Preliminary topic: The effect of maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy to childhood health

• Prof. Maria Christina Jenmalm, Linköping University, Sweden
  

Preliminary topic: Intrauterine and early infancy determinants of allergy development

• Prof. Christopher Redman, University of Oxford, UK
  

Preliminary topic: Pregnancy effect on future health of mothers and/or offsprings: cardiovascular disease, thyroid and renal disease, diabetes

• Prof. Rebecca Reynolds, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  

Preliminary topic: Endocrine communication in the maternal-fetal programming

• Prof. Richard Sharpe, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  

Preliminary topic: Fetal programming of testicular cell populations, role of exogenous factors and endocrine disruptors

• Prof. Anne Cathrine Staff, University of Oslo, Norway
  

Title of her lecture: Long-term Maternal Cardiovascular disease after Pregnancy Hypertension and Placental dysfunction: possible mechanisms and how to follow up women at risk?

• Prof. Régine P. M. Steegers-Theunissen, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
  

Title of her lecture: Periconceptional nutritional care: Should we care?

More information HERE.