Rhode Island 2008
52nd Annual Scientific Meeting
June 11-14, 2008
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into
Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida was held at Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island at the invitation of Drs John Duncan,
Conrad Johanson and Gerald Silverberg. The Society would like to
thank the organizers, especially Conrad and his wife, Nancy, for
making the meeting such a success.
Brown University was founded in 1764, one of the eight "Ivy
League" Universities, and has an international reputation in
teaching and research. The University lies on a hill overlooking
the commercial centre of Providence and is a charming mix of 18th
and 19th Century houses and a modern campus.
Following the Society's AGM, the social programme began with a
welcome reception in the University's Faculty Club and continued on
Thursday with a visit to "The Breakers", the Vanderbilt family's
summer home in Newport, followed by a traditional "Clambake". The
Conference dinner was held in the Federal Reserve, a former bank,
in downtown Providence.
The topics in the scientific programme included sessions on Gene
Expression, Basic Science, Early Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida,
Spina Bifida and Urology Development, Hydrocephalus and Spina
Bifida, CSF Flow and Dynamics, Surgery and Infections, Normal
Pressure Hydrocephalus and and Shunt function. The Society was also
pleased to welcome two distinguished invited speakers. The Casey
Holter Memorial Lecture was given by Professor Andrew Copp from
University College London entitled "Genetics and Embryology of
Neural Tube Defects" and Professor Barbara Stonestreet from Brown
University gave a lecture entitled "Intraventricular Haemorrhage in
Premature Infants". The meeting closed with an invitation from
Stephen Brown, Alan Bailie and Nan Hill to the 53rd Annual
Scientific Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 24-27 June 2009.
The abstracts of all the presented papers are published on this
Website. It is the Society's policy to publish abstracts without
editing. Any comments should be addressed directly to the
authors.
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conference proceedings in PDF format.
