USANA 2024: 5^th to the 8^th September 2024

SAVE THE DATE _USANA 2024 by Shakti Pillay

Dear colleagues

On behalf of the United South African Neonatal Association (USANA) executive committee, we have the pleasure of announcing that next year’s 2024 6th Biennial USANA conference will be held at Champagne Sports Resort in the “mountains of dragons” – the picturesque Drakensberg in the garden province of South Africa, KwaZulu Natal .

We are excited to hold a face-to-face conference with all health care professionals with a collective interest in providing safe neonatal care present in one intimate setting.

The conference will be held over four days from Thursday the 5th September 2024 until Sunday the 8th September 2024. As per previous years, USANA 2024 will be preceded by pre-conference workshops, which will occur as two parallel sessions on Thursday the 5th September 2024. Both workshops promise to be appealing to both doctors and nurses.

The USANA biennial conferences have always offered a rewarding academic experience for doctors, nurses, nurse educators and allied staff with a shared interest in evidence-based care paradigms, and recent advances in neonatal care. The evolution of neonatology has been astounding with vast improvements in neonatal outcomes. However, modern neonatology embraces a “less is more” approach – minimal handling, less invasive testing, and use of point of care devices. The theme of USANA 2024 embodies this concept of “Gentle Neonatology.”

There will be local and international speakers, hot topics, a “poster café” with research abstracts that may be browsed at one’s leisure with a select few best abstracts as presentations. There will be “hot” ethical topics, dedicated sessions on quality improvement, and “Green and Rotten Apples” – exciting updates on active neonatal research in South Africa and what is yet to come from local research output and the use of technology in medicine.

Our welcome drinks and gala dinner with surprise theme promise to be engaging and interactive with great opportunities for networking, collaboration, and engagement with exhibitors.

Please mark your calendars. We will be sending further details and a programme soon.

See you in the Drakensberg in September 2024.

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