Program

Preliminary program

TimeProgram
08:00-09:00Registration and Come together
09:00-09:30Opening

Susanne Greber-Platzer – Head of the Dep. for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the Clinical Division for Ped. Pulmonology, Allergology and Endocrinology, Austrian Newborn Screening Program, Medical University Vienna (MUV)

Markus Müller – Rector of the Medical University Vienna (MUV)

Volkan Talazoglu – Vice-Rector for financial affairs of the Medical University Vienna (MUV)

Representative of the Ministry of Science
09:30–10:15 Opening lecture
The Austrian Newborn Screening: Historical Review and Future Potentials
Sylvia Stoeckler-Ipsiroglu (Vancouver, Canada)
10:15-10:45Newborn Screening and Genomic Medicine: Changing The History of Rare Diseases
Georg Hoffmann (Heidelberg, Germany)
10:45-11:30Break
11:30-12:00“The Spectrum of Approaches to Neonatal Screening in Europe: Progress and Unmet Needs”
Urh Groselj (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
12:00-12:30Newborn Screening for Congenital Immunodeficiencies in Europe
Maarja Soomann (Zurich, Switzerland)
12:30-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-14:00Lessons of Vitamin B12 Deficiency-Screening in Norway – To Screen or Not To Screen?
Trine Tangeraas (Oslo, Norway)
14:00-14:30Population-based First-Tier Genomic Newborn Screening: Results of the BabyDetect Trial
François Boemer (Liege, Belgium)
14:30-15:00The VUS Crisis in Population Screening: Why Biochemistry Remains Essential Lessons from ALD Newborn Screening
Stephan Kemp (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
15:00-16:00Break
16:00-17:00Panel discussion
17:00-17:15Closing Remarks & End

Scientific Organisation Committee
Vassiliki Konstantopoulou & Maximilian Zeyda
Austrian Newborn Screening
Clinical Division for Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergology and Endocrinology, Dep. for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University Vienna