TRIALS
REQUIRING MORE CENTRES & MORE RECRUITS
CHIPS Trial:
Control of Hypertension in Pregnancy Study
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial: visit
http://www.utoronto.ca/cmicr/chips/ or contact Tara Morris at
chips@cw.bc.ca
BOOST II: Benefits of Oxygen Saturation Targeting Study
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
boost2@ctc.usyd.edu.au
PPROMT Trial: Preterm
Pre-Labour Rupture of Membranes Close to Term Trial
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
ppromt@med.usyd.edu.au
PROGRESS Trial:
Progesterone after previous preterm birth for the prevention of neonatal
respiratory distress syndrome
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
progress@adelaide.edu.au
TWINS: Timing of
Birth at Term a randomised controlled trial
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or
http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/og/research/mpctu.html or email
twins@adelaide.edu.au
FORTHCOMING WOMBAT MEETINGS
WOMBAT Protocol Workshop
Thursday April 16,
2009, 9.00 5.00pm
Friday April 17, 2009, 9.00 am - 5.00pm
VIBE Hotel, Kitchener Drive, Darwin
The
VIBE Hotel is in close proximity to the Darwin Convention Centre
Aim
To develop a protocol for a clinical trial in maternal and perinatal
health.
Objectives
1. participants will write a protocol document which covers all the
fundamental aspects of trial design and methodology
2. at the end of the course participants will have the knowledge and
resources to complete the protocol on their own
3. participants will have the opportunity to work with other
researchers and clinicians who are involved in or intending to carry
out a clinical trial in maternal or perinatal healthcare
Workshop Leader
Professor Caroline Crowther The University of Adelaide
Confirmed faculty
Dr Jodie Dodd The University of Adelaide
Ms Vicki Flenady Mater Health Services
Ms Philippa Middleton The University of Adelaide
Associate Professor Peter Morris Menzies School of Health Research
Dr Alice Rumbold Menzies School of Health Research & The University
of Adelaide
Dr Georgie Stamp The University of Adelaide
Professor William Tarnow-Mordi University of Sydney
Outline of the
course
The Research Cycle and CONSORT
Question formulation using PICO
RCT methods
Trial outcomes and sample size calculations
Data collection and analysis
Data monitoring committees and other trial committees
Submission writing, ethics, trial registration
Resource and staffing requirements, funding, budgets, timeline
Small groups will work on all aspects of writing a trial protocol with
the aim of presenting a draft protocol outline to the workshop on the
Friday for comment and discussion. Participants will receive a trial
protocol workbook and resource folder for preparing their trial
protocol.
Earn CPD points
Approved by the Australian College of Midwives for 11 MidPlus CPD points
Eligible for CPD points for RACP
Cost: $180 (including GST)
WOMBAT Protocol
Workshop
Mater Hosptial, South Brisbane
Thursday Aug 6 and Friday Aug 7
This protocol workshop will
be led by Caroline Crowther and Vicki Flenady.
More details to follow.
Data Monitoring
Committee (DMC) Workshop
A DMC Workshop will be held in Sydney in mid November led by Caroline
Crowther.
Date and venue to be confirmed.
WOMBAT NEWS
Queensland Network
Teleconferences
The WOMBAT
Queensland Network will be holding teleconferences every second month in
2009. These teleconferences have been set up so that researchers
involved in perinatal RCTs in Queensland have the opportunity to
collaborate and share with other researchers. Due to the PSANZ
conference in Darwin, the first teleconference is scheduled for late
April. Please save the following dates if you would like to attend these
teleconferences:
28 April 3pm
30th June 3pm
25th August 3pm
27th October 3pm
It is hoped that
these teleconferences will be run using Skype. If you need help setting
up Skype in order to call in please contact
linda.murray@mater.org.au
or
Yanlin.liu@mater.org.au.
Farewell to Linda
Murray
Linda Murray will
be stepping down as the Queensland WOMBAT co-ordinator in order to
pursue full time postgraduate study in public health. We wish Linda well
in her future endeavours and thank her for her dedication as Queensland
WOMBAT coordinator and as our newsletter editor.
Other workshops,
meetings and conferences relevant to maternal and perinatal health
National Conferences and Events
25th
Fetus as a Patient International Congress
6-8 March 2009
Hilton Sydney Hotel, Sydney
For further information, please visit:
www.fetus2009.com
Satellite workshop to
PSANZ 13th Annual Congress 2009 - ANZSA
Australian and New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance in collaboration with
the PSANZ Perinatal Mortality Group
Date: Saturday 18th April 2009
Venue: VIBE Hotel, Kitchener Drive, Darwin
This one-day workshop will consist of a half-day educational program
(using the SCORPIO educational technique) for clinicians on
perinatal mortality including investigation, classification and
communication with parents. The second half will include
presentations on stillbirth and preterm birth prevention, perinatal
mortality audit and communication.
Abstracts of papers for oral or poster presentations are welcomed.
For further details:
http://www.stillbirthalliance.org/anz or contact Vicki Flenady:
vicki.flenady@mater.org.au
Satellite workshop
to
PSANZ 13th Annual Congress 2009 - IMPACT
The IMPACT
(Interdisciplinary Maternal Perinatal Australasian Clinical Trials)
NETWORK,
within the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand, is
dedicated to the improvement of maternal and perinatal health by the
promotion of appropriately designed randomised controlled trials (RCTs),
and dissemination and application of their results.
Saturday 18 April
2009, 13.30 17.00.
Session 1: 13.30 14.30: Presentations of trials in the planning
stages
Session 2: 15.00 17.00: Presentations of trials in the planning
stages
Investigators are invited to present their trials for discussion and
input by workshop participants. IMPACT workshops are designed to
facilitate the presentation and discussion of trials that are at the
planning stage. See below for details of how to submit an abstract
Sunday 19th April 2009, 08.30-13.00.
Session 3: Workshop Participating in Clinical Trials What you
never knew!
Workshop led by Prof Stewart Dunn This dynamic facilitation will
raise skills and challenge beliefs about the underlying processes by
which we invite participation in clinical trials.
Satellite workshop to
PSANZ 13th Annual Congress 2009 - Cochrane work-in
Sunday 1330- 1700, 2009
The
IMPACT workshop will be followed by a Cochrane Work-in. The work-in
provides and opportunity for Cochrane authors to progress their
Cochrane review titles, protocols, and reviews with the support of
experienced reviewers. For further details please contact Philippa
Middleton:
philippa.middleton@adelaide.edu.au Phone 08 8161 7612
13th Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New
Zealand
PZANZ 2009, A Top
End Experience: Better Birthing, Better Babies
Darwin Convention Centre, Northern Territory, Australia
19-22 April 2009
For More Information Contact:
PSANZ09 Congress Managers
c/ Event Planners Australia
PO Box 1517
Eagle Farm Qld 4009
Australia
T: +61 7 3858 5575
F: +61 7 3858 5499
psanz09@eventplanners.com.au
http://psanz09.eventplanners.com.au
CHIPS Lunchtime
Meeting, Monday 20th April
CHIPS (Control
of Hypertension In Pregnancy Study) will be holding an informal,
lunchtime Q & A session at PSANZ in Darwin. This exciting study has
important ramifications for both hypertensive mothers and their
babies so if you would like to know more, please come along and see
us. If you have already had an Interested Centre Pack but still have
questions or are unsure how to get started, this session is for you
too!
To ensure that
you get a take-home study info pack, please register your
interest with Claire Parker: cparker@meddent.uwa.edu.
THE
TWENTY-THIRD FETAL AND NEONATAL WORKSHOP OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Travelodge Mirambeena Resort
Darwin, NT, Australia
17-18 April, 2009
Abstracts close 14 March
For more information please contact: Dr Robert De Matteo
robert.dematteo@med.monash.edu.au
Phone: (03) 9902 9108
Australian College of Neonatal Nurses Inc
Annual Neonatal Care Conference
"New Horizons:
Nursing Neonates, Families and Communities"
Saturday 18 April 2009 (welcome reception & poster viewing), Sunday
19 April 2009
The Convention Centre, DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA
For further details go to
http://www.acnn.org.au/ or contact Karen New at:
acnn@acnn.org.au
The Australian
Lactation Consultant Association (ALCA) National Conference:
Breastfeeding: A Key Public Health Issue
September 4th -
6th 2009, Canberra ACT, Australia.
For more information visit
http://alca.asn.au/
Australian College
of Midwives 16th Biennial Conference: "Women & Midwives - A Brilliant
Blend"
Held from
22nd-25th September 2009, Adelaide Convention Centre
For more information:
http://www.midwives.org.au and click on Events
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
International
Stillbirth Alliance Conference
8-10 March 2009,
South Africa
For Further information:
www.stillbirthalliance.org
The XXIst Asian and
Oceanic Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
26-30 March 2009,
Auckland, New Zealand
For further information:
http://www.aocogranzcog2009.co.nz/
RANZCOG Annual
Scientific meeting in conjunction with the XXIst Asian and Oceanic
Congress of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
26-30 of March,
Auckland, New Zealand
For further information:
http://www.aocogranzcog2009.co.nz/
International
normal birth research conference in Grange over Sands
June 10-12th
2009.
For further information, contact:
Soo Downe. Email:
sdowne@UCLAN.AC.UK
Women & Birth:
Politics, Power and Practice
Worcester,
England
14th & 15th July 2009
http://www.worcester.ac.uk/midwiferyconference/
Final Abstract Submission Date: Friday 6th February 2009
XIX FIGO World
Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
4-9 October 2009,
Cape Town, South Africa
First Announcement is now available on the Congress website:
www.figo2009.org.za/announcements/First%20Announcement%20Final%201.pdf
The 9th World
Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Berlin, Germany
October 24-28,
2009.
For further information:
www.wcpm9.org
The organizers of the World Congress of Perinatal Medicine at Berlin
look forward to papers submitted by midwives within the regular
process of "Call for Abstracts" Please feel free to inform your
colleagues of the opportunity to submit abstracts at wcpm9.
6th World Congress
on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
November 19-22,
2009
Santiago, Chile
For more information:
http://www.mrc.soton.ac.uk/dohad/index.asp?page=71
7th
International Conference of Neonatal Nursing 2010.
Durban, South Africa
24 27 October 2010
For more information:
http://www.coinnurses.org/coinn_conf/2010_int_neonatal.htm
