Welcome to the 2024 WIRF Stars Scientific Symposium registration page.

The Stars Symposium is the Women and Infants Research Foundation's annual medical research event featuring presentations from local and visiting research experts in topics relating to health advances in women and babies.

STARS 2024 - Timing is Everything

Keynote Speaker: Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Mount Sinai Medical Centre, New York, Dr Mark Evans – Re-engineering electronic fetal monitoring

Emerging Researchers’ Session by:

Dr Sean Carter (NUS/KEMH) – Antenatal steroids elicit neurodegenerative changes in fetal sheep brains independent of lung maturation
Dr Dimple Goel (UWA) – Keep the chin-up: Neonatal sleep disordered breathing
Dr Sara Morris (KEMH) - Insights into term breech birth at a tertiary maternity unit
Dr Chandra Rath (UWA) - Effect of probiotic dose escalation on gut microbiota and clinical outcomes in preterm infants

Senior Researchers’ Session by:

Dr Haruo Usuda (WIRF/UWA) - Artificial Placenta model of hypoxia
Dr Zoe Bradfield (Curtin University) – Birthing in MyTIME: A clinical trial to address rising induction rates
Dr Jonathan Davis (CAHS) – Does it matter where preterm babies are born in Western Australia?
Dr Mathias Epee-Bekima (KEMH) – Placenta accreta spectrum: The ticking bomb

For more information about the Stars presenters and their topics visit: www.wirf.com.au/stars2024

Venue

University Club of WA, Banquet Hall, Hackett Drive, Crawley, WA 6009

Contact Details:

Women and Infants Research Foundation

08 6458 1437

info@wirf.com.au