XXII European Congress
PERiNATAL MEDICINE
GRANADA SPAIN - May 26th - 29th, 2010
WELCOME LETTERS
The European Congress is primarily a scientific event.
Therefore, in agreement with the officers of EAPM and with the joint efforts of the Local Organizers, The International Scientific Committee has proposed an appealing and high profile programme, aimed to combine topics of outmost interest to those involved in perinatal medicine (obstetricians, neonatologists, midwives, anesthesiologists, genetists, pathologists, epidemiologists and others). The underlying theme is the perinatal safety and outcome between technologies and humanisation, and this will be the leitmotiv of the plenary sessions running all three mornings of the congress period followed by new formats introduced in this meeting:
1. Challenge the speaker: one presenter for half an hour and a half an hour discussion raised by chairpersons and discussants, on a particularly controversial topic.
2. Special lecture: one main speaker will open a topic followed by the three best communications on the same subject.
3. Meet the professor: a luncheon session on the three days of the congress. Every day 15 professors will have a lunch in a round table with 11 delegates on the basis "first come, first served", on a topic of choice of the experts. The list of professors has been indicated but within the programme.
Moreover, in order to promote the participation of Gulf-area (Arabic speaking) and Chinese delegates, and in agreement with some perinatologists of those areas, we have planned specific sessions for those delegates. The same will apply for the Portuguese speaking delegates, who can be gathered in a joint session with participants from Portugal and Brazil.
Concurrent sessions, communication sessions and posters displays will run every day giving space to all new results, ideas, opinions and clinical guidelines.
But at the end, success of a congress is given by the scientific contribution of all participants. Therefore, we aim to receive as many abstracts as possible in order to make this congress a lively forum to exchange ideas, research and science.
Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD, PhD
Chairman, EAPM International Scientific Committee