Scientific program
Satelitarne Konferencje EUROlinkCAT 7.04.2022
EUROlinkCAT European Conference “Health and education outcomes of children across Europe with congenital anomalies” April 7-8, 2022
Scientific program:
Thursday 7 April 2022
All listed times are Central European Summer Time (CEST)
12:00-14:00
Student poster presentations
14:15-15:45
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Prof Anna Latos-Bielenska, Prof Joan Morris
Conference Welcome
Speaker: Prof Anna Latos-Bielenska
EUROlinkCAT: Why create a linked European cohort of children with congenital anomalies?
Speaker: Prof Joan Morris
EUROCAT: Maximising EUROCAT’s potential
Speaker: David Tucker
Multi-stakeholder engagement to support person-centred health outcomes
Speaker: Dr Sylvia Roozen
16:00-17:50
Session 1 - The Voice of Parents and Science: Heath care and education of children with congenital anomalies
Chair: Prof Ingeborg Barisic, Co-Chair: Dr Amanda Neville
The voice of the parents
Speaker: Dr Kristina Garne Holm
The information and support needs of parents of children with congenital anomalies: an online survey in 10 European countries
Speaker: Dr Elena Marcus
Some insights into educational achievements in children born with a congenital anomaly
Speaker: Prof Judith Rankin
Panellists’ presentations
Speakers: Dorica Dan, Dominika Madaj-Solberg, Prof Jolanta Wierzba
18:00-20:00
Virtual discussion rooms (for anyone to discuss posters, parents´ experiences, foundations and associations)
Friday 8 April 2022
08:15-08:35
Winning student poster presentations
08:35-09:00
How do to create a linked European cohort of children with congenital anomalies?
Speaker: Prof Joan Morris
09:00-10:45
Session 2 - Medications for chronic diseases in children with and without congenital anomalies
Chair: Dr Maria Loane, Co-Chair: Dr Mads Damkjær
Type 1 diabetes mellitus in children up to ten years of age
Speaker: Dr Joanne Given
Anti-asthmatic prescriptions in children with and without congenital anomalies
Speaker: Natalie Divin
Prescription of cardiovascular medication to children with congenital heart defects
Speaker: Dr Mads Damkjær
Panellists´ presentations
Speaker: Dr Tania Schink, Prof Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen, Dr Christine Damase-Michel
11:15-13:05
Session 3 - Hospitalisations and surgeries in children with and without congenital anomalies
Chair: Dr Ester Garne, Co-Chair: Dr Mads Damkjær
Length of children´s hospital stays
Speaker: Dr Stine Kjaer Urhoj
Timing, numbers and mortality of surgical interventions in children with congenital anomalies
Speaker: Dr Mads Damkjær
Intensive care and mechanical ventilation in children
Speaker: Dr Cecilia Martellucci
Are permanent feeding tubes used by children with congenital anomalies?
Speaker: Dr Ester Garne
Panellists´ presentations
Speakers: Dr Luca Autelitano, Prof Damien Bonnet, Prof Irene Petersen
14:05-15:55
Session 4 - Survival of children born with congenital anomalies
Chair: Prof Judith Rankin, Co-Chair: Dr Anna Pierini
Temporal and geographical variations in survival of children born with congenital anomalies in Europe
Speaker: Dr Michele Santoro
Ten-year survival of children born with major congenital anomalies
Speaker: Dr Svetlana Glinianaia
Survival of children with rare structural congenital anomalies
Speaker: Dr Alessio Coi
Difficulties in combining data on the survival of children with congenital anomalies
Speaker: Matt Pryce
Panellists´ presentations
Speaker: Prof Ruth Gilbert, Prof Paul Romitti, Dr Jennita Reefhuis
16:25-18:25
Session 5 - Evaluating and Enhancing the use of Hospital Discharge Data in the Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies
Chair: Dr Hermien de Walle, Co-Chair: Prof Joan Morris
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding on live birth children recorded in health care databases
Speaker: Dr Marian Bakker
Using EUROlinkCAT data to evaluate cause of death from vital statistics
Speaker: Dr Anke Rissmann
Algorithms for use in health care databases to improve the surveillance of congenital anomalies
Speaker: Dr Cecilia Martellucci
Lessons learned from the EUROlinkCAT study on the quality of data in health care databases
Speaker: Dr Ester Garne
Panellists´ presentations
Prof Domenica Taruscio, Prof Sonia Hernández-Díaz, Prof Helen Dolk, Prof Robert Smigiel
18:25-18:45
CONFERENCE CLOSING SESSION