Children Webinar | Intrauterine Growth Restriction: How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
Children Webinar | Intrauterine Growth Restriction: How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
Part of the MDPI Children Webinar series
23 February 2026
IUGR, Vascular Health, Pathophysiology, Monitoring and Treatment Options, Fetal Ultrasound
Welcome from the Chair
10th Children Webinar
Intrauterine Growth Restriction: How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life
In 1992, Prof Barker proposed that changes in vascular structure and compliance might explain the fetal origins of adult hypertension. To address this public health problem, it is crucial to understand the mechanistic links between poor growth in utero and hypertension. An appreciation of the underlying pathophysiology is key to assessing therapeutic directions. This webinar charts a life course journey in IUGR cohorts, from fetal life through to adulthood.
Date: 23 February 2026
Time: 8:00 am CET | 6:00 pm AEDT
Webinar ID: 865 4954 8017
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Registration
This is a FREE webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Certificates of attendance will be delivered to those who attend the live webinar.
Can’t attend? Register anyway and we’ll let you know when the recording is available to watch.
Event Chair
1. The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia 2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia.
Dr Beth Allison is a vascular physiologist with a strong interest in the developmental programming of health and disease. She is a recipient of the NHMRC Investigator Grant and is head of the Perinatal Cardiovascular Physiology Research group in The Ritchie Centre. Her research focuses on how the cardiovascular system grows and develops in fetuses who do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients in utero.
Keynote Speakers
1. BCNatal-Barcelona Center for Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (Hospital Clínic and Hospital Sant Joan de Deu), Barcelona, Spain 2. Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain 3. BCNatal Fetal Medicine Research Center, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain.
Dr Crispi is a physician scientist combining a clinical position as consultant at Clínic Barcelona Hospital with leading the Fetal Cardiac Programming research team at IDIBAPS and teaching at the University of Barcelona. Dr Crispi leads translational research aiming to improve cardiovascular health of the future generations.
1. Staff Neonatologist, Clinician Scientist and Head of Neonatal Cardiovascular Research, Monash Children's Hospital 2. Adjunct Professor of Paediatrics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 3. Lead ǀ Cardiology ǀ Newborn Research Group.
Prof Sehgal is a Neonatologist who completed his PhD in 2016 and Doctorate of Science (Perinatal Cardiovascular Physiology) in 2025 while working as a full time intensivist. His research has twice (2019 & 2024) been awarded the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network Research Award. Prof Sehgal's current research focuses on cardiovascular adaptations in infants with severe bronchopulmonary and those with fetal growth restriction.
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
Time in AEDT |
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Dr. Beth Allison Chair Introduction |
8:00 – 8:10 am |
6:00 – 6:10 pm |
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Dr. Fatima Crispi Small beginnings, lasting impact: cardiovascular legacy of fetal growth restriction |
8:10 – 8:35 am |
6:10 – 6:35 pm |
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Prof. Arvind Sehgal Where have all the vessels gone: effect of IUGR |
8:35 – 9:00 am |
6:35 – 7:00 pm |
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Q&A |
9:00 – 9:15 am |
7:00 – 7:15 pm |
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Dr. Beth Allison Closing of Webinar |
9:15 – 9:20 am |
7:15 – 7:20 pm |
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