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Grand Rounds opens the 5th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference hosted by the Children’s Bioethics Centre. The Theme for the conference is “Who’s listening to me? Who’s speaking speaking for me?”

The literature on child disclosure of family abuse (i.e. sexual abuse, physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence) will be reviewed with a focus on how parental and community response to disclosure predicts long-term recovery for the child. Subtle and overt forms of non-supportive responses to disclosure will be examined through the prism of recent research on priming and neuroethics- a literature that can help elucidate the multiple pathways that adults might unconsciously employ to discourage children from fully communicating details of their victimization.

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A special RCH Grand Rounds

The Grand Round will be part history, science, personal reflections, a tribute to patients and their families, and the multidisciplinary teams involved in their care at RCH over the last 40 years.

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Stress, Cortisol and Infant Health

Studying the links between early environmental factors and infants’ HPA axis, behavioral regulation, and health is important because in the case of negative effects, infants’ future psychological and physical development could be compromised.

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Recent Developments in Non-Invasive Ventilation

Ventilation of neonates was initially unsuccessful and led to the development of non-invasive strategies in the 1970s. Over the past decade, nasal CPAP has had resurgence and more recently high flow nasal cannulae have become very popular. The evidence for both forms of respiratory support will be reviewed with particular emphasis on the Melbourne contribution.

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NAIDOC Grand Round

For this NAIDOC Grand Round Denise McGuinness will be highlighting the history of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service as it celebrates its 40th Anniversary later in 2013.

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Father Inclusiveness: Working with Fathers and their newborn Infants

Dr Kevin Nugent will present findings from a range of studies about our understanding of father’s relationships with their newborn infants. Helping parents meet “the newborn as a person” using a father and family-centred relationship based approach can set the whole family off on a very positive developmental trajectory.

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