Highly commended
The Global Neo Learning Summit: Navigating Nutrition for the Preterm Infant
With support from Medscape Medical Affairs
Summary of work
Every year, ~15 million babies are born preterm. The infants, parents/caregivers and physicians face a complex clinical situation combining the physical challenges of a preterm birth (physiological immaturity and a high risk of postnatal growth failure) with the emotional burden of anxious parents/caregivers. A major priority for preterm infants to maximise neurodevelopmental outcomes is ensuring that nutritional intake meets individual requirements. Insights from paediatricians and neonatologists highlight the struggle to keep up to date with latest thinking in preterm nutrition and the importance of communicating with parents the need for optimised nutrition in the first 100 days to improve both short- and long-term neurodevelopment outcomes. In 2022, the first virtual Global Neo Learning Summit focused on navigating nutrition for preterm infants and was designed to build a network of likeminded clinicians, advance knowledge addressing self-identified learning gaps, develop competency in optimising nutritional management, and create lasting impact for infants and their parents/caregivers. Over 600 paediatricians and neonatologists from 70 countries attended, with >1000 registering interest in the enduring programme. Delegates demonstrated improvements in both clinical knowledge and competency (assessed as an integral part of the programme) and took best practices back to clinic impacting the care of >30,000 preterm babies.
Judges’ comments
The Global Neo Learning Summit had good execution in terms of building the customer journey. The judges found the opening compelling and it was a very emotive topice. The programme demonstrated very good insight into the situation, with strong implementation. It is interesting and fulfilled an unmet need.
