2024 Fetal Care Center Frontiers in Fetal Neurology Day 1 - Introduction

Welcome to Cincinnati Children's, uh, Frontiers in Fetal Neurology, uh, globalcast. Um, My name is Charivenka Tayson, and I have Doctor Kara Markham here with me as well. Um, and we extend a very warm welcome to all of you. Um, and Aya, can we start the slides? Perfect. Um, so I wanna just take a few moments to review our days. So today is day 1, and we are going to spend the first hour, 120 to 1:00, talking about congenital aqueductal stenosis. Um, and the second part of it will be going over some uncertainties in neurological diagnoses and prognosis, um, from 1 to 2. Next week, day two on October 9th, we will spend some time going over fetal therapeutics, uh, treatment of tuberosclerosis, as well as toxic and environmental exposures, um, and effect on brain development. So a little bit more about today. So from noon to 1, the topic will be congenital aqueductal stenosis. I will talk a little bit about outcomes of patients with uh congenital aqueductal stenosis, then Doctor Jessie Scotch will um discuss for congenital aqueductal stenosis. Then from 1 to 2, we're gonna go into uncertainties in neurological diagnoses. We have Doctor Don Gano from UCSF discussing fetal intracranial hemorrhage, Doctor Sonika Agarwal from CHOP, uh, reviewing genetic conditions and brain malformations, and, uh, Doctor Donna Maria Corteso reviewing role of palliative care in fetal counseling. The general format. So we're going to spend about 15 minutes or so for each talk. At the end of each session, we're going to have 15 minutes. For discussion. We request that you post your questions in the chat, and we will do our best to address um all the questions that come through in the chat. However, if we're not able to get to all the questions, we will post answers and also reach out to you if possible directly via email.