My fragile baby - An ESPR mini-documentary of life and work in the context of the NICU

Click here to view the documentary. 

Renew your ESPR membership for 2024 and stay involved in the society

If you haven't already, we'd like to gently nudge you to renew your ESPR membership for 2024. It's a breeze and will take just a few minutes – simply hop over 👉 to the ESPR website.

Please note that the reduced member fees for future congresses only apply if your membership dues have been paid. If you need any help or have questions about your membership status, don't hesitate to reach out to the ESPR Secretariat at office@espr.eu.

Thank you for supporting the ESPR and its mission of developing and applying research to improve newborn and child health!

Apply for the Pediatric Research Travel Awards 2024
Deadline for nominations: January 15th, 2024

The Editors-in–Chief of Pediatric Research are inviting nominations for the 2024 Travel Awards, offering a $2,500 travel stipend for Early Career Investigators.

Winners can use the grant within two years for the PAS meeting in Toronto, CA (May 2024) or ESPR meeting in Vienna, AT (October 2024).

Nominations should be authors of articles published in the print editions of Pediatric Research during calendar year 2023, who are "Early Career Investigators".

Travel Awardees must be:

Launch of the new ESPR Special Interest Group 'Necrotising Enterocolitis'

EAPS 2024 - Abstract submission open

Our next annual meeting, the 10th Congress of the European Academy of Paediatric Societies (EAPS 2024), will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 17-20 October 2024.

You have an abstract ready you would like to submit? Then we have good news - the submission system has opened, and the abstract submission deadline is 8 April 2024.

Mentored Review Programme by Pediatric Research, SPR & ESPR

In this programme, early career investigators are partnering with experienced mentors to review manuscripts for Pediatric Research.

To apply for this programme, candidates must meet the following criteria:

1. Be a member of Junior SPR or ESPR;
2. Reply to invitations within 1 business day from initial contact by Junior SPR/ESPR to avoid delays in the peer-review process;

ESPR Early Career Investigator Mentoring Programme: joint publications by Mentors & Mentees

There are wonderful news from Karel Allegaert and Elif Keles from the ESPR Early Career Investigator Mentoring Programme (ECIMP). They published three papers on creatinine in neonates undergoing whole body hypothermia:

• Serum Creatinine Patterns in Neonates Treated with Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy (Link);
• Rescaling Creatinine Centiles in Neonates Treated with Therapeutic Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy (Link);
• A Population Model of Time-Dependent Changes in Serum Creatinine in (Near)term Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy During and After Therapeutic Hypothermia (Link);

Watch this short video of Elif talking about their publications and her experiences as a mentee.

Moreover, we are excited to inform you that a paper of another mentor-mentee pair - Fuat Emre Canpolat and Tetyana Waldheim - has been accepted for publication! Once the paper is out we will share the link with you.

These are perfect examples of the great achievements which can be realised when mentors and mentees work together in the ECIMP. Our warmest congratulations to all involved!

Publication in Pediatric Research by ESPR members

Please find below a list of the latest papers by ESPR members published in our journal Pediatric Research:

• Multisensory stimuli and pain perception in the newborn (Link);
• Management of neonates with maternal prenatal coronavirus infection and influencing factors (Link);
• Senior investigator biocommentary: Max Vento (Link);

We wholeheartedly congratulate all experts involved in the publication of these papers!

Survey about respiratory management in infants receiving therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal encephalopathy

Neonatal encephalopathy is a devastating condition that affects 1-3/ 1000 live births in developed countries and accounts for 0.3 million deaths worldwide. Respiratory management of those infants presents a particular challenge leading to various clinical practice.  

With this survey, the Department of Neonatology, at Semmelweis University, wants to explore the different protocols across neonatal intensive care units. If hypothermia treatment for neonatal encephalopathy is provided in your unit, kindly participate in this survey.

Estimated time for completion: 10 minutes.

Click here to take the survey.

Survey on head circumference monitoring during childhood: a global comparison of guidelines

The Harry's Hydrocephalus Awareness Trust (Harry's HAT) would like to invite you to complete their survey on head circumference monitoring during childhood in order to gain a better understanding of current practice in terms of routine head circumference monitoring, and how policies vary across different countries.

Harry's Hydrocephalus Awareness Trust is a paediatric hydrocephalus charity based in the UK, researching differences in routine head circumference measurement policies.

Estimated time for completion: 5-7 minutes.

Click here to take the survey.

Survey: Neonatal pulmonology - what do trainees across Europe learn during subspecialty training?

The ESPR Early Career Investigators Section would like to gain an insight into what neonatal training in the field of pulmonology looks like across Europe. Trainee perspectives will play a pivotal role in shaping and developing future training curriculums – those which are both clinically and academically relevant for neonatal subspecialty trainees.

We would like to invite any current neonatal subspecialty trainee, or those who have recently finished neonatal subspecialty training (within the past 3 years), to complete this short survey via the link below...and the consultant neonatologists to kindly distribute the survey to their neonatal subspecialty trainees!

Estimated time for completion: 5-10 minutes.

Click here to take the survey.

Join the conversation on social media

Did you know that promoting your research via social media increases the number of citations?

The ESPR would be delighted to feature your findings on X and LinkedIn. Simply send an email to office@espr.eu and we will prepare a post on your behalf.

We would also like to invite you to follow us and join the conversation. Find us via @ESPR_ESN on X and on LinkedIn.

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