Volume 25. 'Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes and digital material related to the seminar on "Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 15 June 2004. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 25 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Prenatal Corticosteroids for Reducing Morbidity and Mortality After Preterm Birth, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).

The participants for the seminar were; Dr Mary Ellen (Mel) Avery; Professor Sir Christopher Booth; Dr Peter Brocklehurst; Sir Iain Chalmers; Dr Patricia Crowley; Professor John Gabbay; Professor Harald Gamsu; Dr Dino Giussani; Gill Gyte; Dr Stephen Hanney; Professor Jane Harding; Dr John Hayward; Dr Edmund Hey (Chair); Ian Jones; Professor Richard Lilford; Professor Miranda Mugford; Brenda Mullinger; Professor Ann Oakley; Dr Sam Richmond; Dr Roger Verrier Jones; Professor Dafydd Walters; and John Williams.

The editors of the published transcript were L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey with an introduction by Barbara Stocking.

The meeting organisers were Sir Iain Chalmers and Dr Daphne Christie.

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Others present at the meeting included; Dr Sheila Duncan; Professor Abby Fowden; Dr Anita Magowska; Professor Alison Macfarlane; Dr David Paintin; and Professor Maureen Young.

Apologies sent by; Professor Richard Beard; Professor Sir Robert Boyd; Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain; Dr Clive Dash; Dr Pamela Davies; Professor Sir Liam Donaldson; Professor Peter Dunn; Dr Jonathan Grant; Sir John Muir Gray; Professor Aidan Halligan; Professor Mark Hanson; Associate Professor Ross Howie; Professor Frank Hytten; Professor Marc Keirse; Professor Sir Graham Liggins; Dr Jerold Lucey; Professor Sally MacIntyre; Dr Jonathan Mant; Professor Jim Neilson; Dr Cliff Robertson; Barbara Stocking; Dr Peter Stutchfield; Dr Mark Walport; Professor Jonathan Wigglesworth; and Dr Peter Williams.

Digital material includes recordings, papers and photographs relating to the seminar and can be found under Transcripts.

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