The 7th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Developing Countries

Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt

March 29-31, 2012

Congress President : Alaa Ebrashy . Nadia Badrawy

Workshops:

1. Ian Donald advanced Ob/Gyn ultrasound

Venue:	Alexandria bibliotheca
Date:	Thursday March 29, 2012
Registration:	100 Participants
Topics:	1st Trimester Scan + Fetal Heart Scan normal and abnormal.

Speakers:

Asim Kurkak, Croatia	Mona AboulGhar, UAE
Giovanni Monni, Italy	Alaa Ebrashy, Egypt
Pavel Calda, Czech Republic	Ahmed Zakaria, Egypt
Eberhard Merz, Germany	Sayed El Badawy, Egypt
Ana Bianchi, Uruguay	Cihat Sen, Turkey
Rasha Kamel, Egypt	Sherif Negm, Egypt
Mohamed Momtaz, Egypt	Ritsuko Pooh, Japan
Mahmoud AbdelNaby, Egypt	Badr El Din Ahmed, Qatar
Hussein AboulMakarem, Egypt	Mohamed Ehab, Egyptn
Waldo Sepulveda, Chile	Aris Antsaklis, Greece
Abdallah El Kateb, Egypt

2. Neonatology

Venue:	Alexandria bibliotheca
Date:	Thursday March 29, 2012
Registration:	75 Participants
Topics:	Respiratory care of the Newborn: A Practical Approach.

Speakers:

• Eduardo Bancalari, USA
• Hany Aly, USA

Organiser:

• Moataza Bashir, Egypt
• Eman Iskandar, Egypt

Congress Program:

Dates: Friday and Saturday 30-31st March

Venue: Bibliotheca Alexandrina

We held two plenary sessions on each day:
Speakers:
Frank Chervanak, USA
Xavier Carbonell, Spain
Asim Kurjak, Croatia
Eduardo Banclari, USA

Neonatal resuscitation accredited by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Course Organiser:

Prof Hany Ali, USA

Course Coordinator:

Moataza Bashir, Egypt

Congress Session:

We had two parallel perinatology sessions on the first day discussing issues related to perinatology

(joined interest by both obstetrician and neonatologists)

We had 4 Materno Fetal sessions each day in total of 8 sessions

We had 4 neonatology sessions on the first day and two on the second day in the total of 6 sessions

Company symposia: 5 symposia

1-Samsung: U/S symposium
2-GSK company: Cervix : Cervix vaccination
3-Sanofi: Anticoagulants symposium 30
4-Cell Safe: Stem cells symposium
5-Mindray: U/S symposium

Opening ceremonies:

Held on Thursday evening with two speeches given by Frank Chervenak, Xavier Carbonell, Alaa Ebrashy and Nadia Badrawy.

Social Events:
Two Dinners were held:
1. Speaker dinner on Thursday March 29th
2. Gala Dinner on Friday March 30th: where we did honour some of our speakers namely: Frank Chervenak, Asim Kurjak , Eduardo Banclari ,Gamal Serour FIGO president Nadia Badrawy.

Registration:
Total number of Registrations: 780 participants
Total number registered in the workshops: 225

Foreign speakers: 27

Aris Antsaklis, Greece	Ana Bianchi, Uruguay
Asim Kurjak, Croatia	Badel El Din Ahmen, Qatar
Cihat Sen, Turkey	Eberhard Merz, Germany
Giovanni Monni, Italy	Pavel Calda, Czech Republic
Ritsuko Pooh, Japan	Ulrich Honemeyer, UAE
Waldo Sepulveda, Chile	Hesham Arab, KSA
Hassan Nasrat, KSA	Eduardo Banclari, USA
Christian Speer, Germany	Gian Carlo DiRenzo, Italy
Frank Chervenak, USA	Xavier Carbonell, Spain
Bernard Serra, Spain	Manuel Carrapato, Portugal
Hany Aly, USA	Penny Glass, USA

Local speakers (Egypt): 20

Ahmed Zakaria	Alaa Ebrashy
Sayed el Badawy	Mohamed Ihab
Mohamed Momtaz	Mona AbouGhar
Moataza Bashir	Lamia Mohsen
Eman Iskander	Ibrahim Shokry
Hala Hamza	Sahar Selim
Ahmed Darwish	AbdelMegiud Ramzy
Mohamed Sherbiny	Ibrahim Ebrashy
Tarek AbdelBar	AbdelHamid Attia
Heshal Aly	Hasan Gafar