This highly interactive and collaborative workshop aims to further support the development of maternal and perinatal clinical trials within the IMPACT Network. The workshop will be guided by highly experienced facilitators who will support you taking your trial from idea to fully fleshed out concept and supported by experts in all aspects of clinical trials from over Australia and New Zealand to also provide information, advice, and guidance.

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Take a look at the 2025 Program: 

Day 1: Build your Trial Proposals 

Start

End

Speaker

Session

8:30am

8:50am

 

Registration

8:50am

9:00am

Kirsten Palmer & Adrienne Gordon

 

Welcome/IMPACT updates

9:00am

9:30am

Professor David MacIntyre

Importance of mechanistic studies in perinatal randomised controlled clinical trials

9:30am

9:55am

Professor Alice Rumbold 

Challenges in conducting perinatal nutrition trials

9:55am

10:20am

Professor Gillian Harvey

 Hybrid effectiveness-implementation trials

10:20am

10:45am

Dr Karen Best

Insights into the SAHMRI experience with decentralised trials and the role of e-recruitment/consent

10:45am

10:55am

Morning Tea

10:55am

11:00am

 

Introduction to concept session  

(2 short updates/new idea and questions and 4 concepts for full facilitation-rules/process)

11:00am

11:20am

Annie McDougall

(10 min talk, 10 min Q and A)

Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of oral L-arginine and L-citrulline in pregnant women

11:20am

11:40am

Amir Zayegh (10 min talk, 10 min Q and A)

A Novel Consent Matrix To Assist Neonatal Researchers In Choosing Ethically Defensible And Evidence Based Recruitment And Consent Methods

11:40am

12:00pm

Ashlea Hambleton (10 min talk, 10 min Q and A)

Strengthening Perinatal Mental Health Systems: A Data-Driven, Digital, and Workforce-Based Approach to Perinatal Eating Disorders

12:00pm

12:15pm

Arun Sett

Lung ultrasound to reduce the number of chest X-rays in very preterm infants in the first 2 weeks after birth: A randomised controlled trial (MINI T-Rex)

12:15pm

12:30pm

Amanda Poprzeczny

Reimagining GDM: CGM for diagnosis of hyperglycemia in pregnancy

12:30pm

12:45pm

Adrienne Gordon

PRIMROSE

12:45pm

1:00pm

Kathryn Martinello

MOM NOSE BEST: Mothers Own Milk intraNasally Or Standard carE in preterm BabiES wiTh in traventricular haemorrhage

1:00pm

1:05pm

Miranda Davies-Tuck

Workshop overview and introduction to faculty

1:05pm

2:30pm

Lunch

2:30pm

3:15pm

Group Work

To cover with facilitators and roving experts:

  • Scientific Methodology,
  • Significance and Impact,
  • Consumer and Implementation Plan
  • Trial teams and capability

3:15

3:30

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm

5:00pm

Group Work

Continue to cover with facilitators and roving experts:

  • Scientific Methodology,
  • Significance and Impact,
  • Consumer and Implementation Plan
  • Trial teams and capability

5:00pm

5:30pm

Teams to finalise and submit proposal to their facilitators

 

Day 2: Review your Trial Proposals

Start

End

Speaker

Session

9:00am

9:15am

Chairs

Introduction to review panel

-        Economist

-        Consumers

-        Obstetric Trialist

-        Midwifery/Neonatal Trialist

-        Neonatal Trialist

-        Epidemiology Statistics

9:15am

11:15am

Chairs

Refined Concept Presentation and review panel feedback (10 min concept lead presentation + 20 min feedback)

11:15am

11:30am

Morning Tea

11:30am

12:30pm

 

Split into Break Out Rooms

Small Groups to review feedback and establish next steps

12:30pm

12:50pm

Himanshu Popat and Annie Cox

Return to Auditorium

Concept outline of next steps (5 mins each)

12:50pm

1:00pm

Kirsten Palmer and Adrienne Gordon

Close

1:00pm

2:00pm

Lunch and Networking

Sep

12 - 13 September 2025

LOCATION:
  • The Robinson Research Institute, Norwich Building 55 King William Road North Adelaide