EAPM COURSE

Environmental Influence on Perinatal Health and Placental-Associated Complications

Coordinator: Prof. Ekkehard Schleußner (Germany)
Organization: SIG Climate Change, Environmental Pollution and Perinatal Health

Registration fee: 65 € (plus 22% VAT)

3 Months of On-Demand Lecture Recordings Included!

Course Objectives

  • Understand Climate change impact on perinatal health
  • Learn about pathological effects of heat stress and environmental pollution on placenta development 

Target audience

  • Obstetricians
  • Neonatologists
  • Placentologists
  • Epidemiologists

Course programme

9:00 Opening and Introduction Markert / Schleussner

 

09:10 The Climate Crisis and Health

Speaker: Schleussner Carl Friedrich (Wien)
 

09:45 Effects of Global Warming on perinatal health

Speaker: Chersich Matthew (Johannesburg)
 

10:20 Placental development and function under heat stress

Speaker: Arck Petra (Hamburg) (Talk given by Isabel Graf)
 

10:55 Coffee Break

 

11:15 Maternal Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Risk of Preeclampsia

Speaker: Hansson Stefan (Lund)
 

12:00 Exposure of microplastics on placenta function and perinatal health

Speaker: Borbely Alexandre (Maceió)
 

12:35 Environmental sustainability in perinatology

Speaker: Schleussner Ekkehard (Jena)

 

13:10 Closure remarks

 

Schleussner Ekkehard

Ekkehard Schleussner

Germany

Department of Obstetrics, University Hospital Jena

Schleussner Carl Friedrich

Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Austria

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Integrated Climate Impacts Research Group, Laxenburg

Portrait Udo Markert

Udo Markert

Germany

Placenta Lap, University Hospital Jena

Stefan Hansson

Stefan Hansson

Sweden

Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University

Professor Matthew Chersich

Matthew Chersich

South Africa

Global Heat Attribution Project (GHAP), Climate and Health Directorate, Wits RHI, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Alexandre Borbely

Alexandre Urban Borbely

Brazil

Institute of Health and Biological Sciences, Federal University of Alagoas Maceió, Brasilia

Petra Arck Kopie

Petra Arck

Germany

Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf

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