Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Implementation in England, France and Germany
26-27 October 2022, Big Data Institute Building, Oxford
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: Implementation in England, France and Germany
Organisers: Ruth Horn, Hilary Bowman-Smart and Adeline Perrot
Programme:
Wednesday 26th October 2022
14:00 – 14:40: Ruth Horn, Universities of Oxford and Augsburg, Introduction
SESSION 1: THE ENGLISH CASE
14:40 – 15:10: Felicity Boardman, University of Warwick
Attitudes to prenatal diagnosis amongst people living with genetic conditions
15:10 – 15:40: Heather Strange, Cardiff University
User experiences of NIPT: findings from qualitative research with private patients in the UK
15:40 – 15:50: Jane Fisher, Antenatal Results and Choices
Summary: The English Case
15:50 – 16:00: Break
SESSION 2: THE GERMAN CASE
16:00 – 16:30: Hilary Bowman-Smart, University of Oxford
Non-invasive prenatal testing in Germany: a unique ethical and policy landscape
16:30 – 17:00: Dagmar Schmitz, Aachen University (Online)
The aftermath of NIPT: changing clinical pathways and abortion practices
17:00 – 17:30: Tamar Nov Klaiman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
A Tale of Two Societies - Germany and Israel through the mirror of NIPT technology
17:30 – 18:00: Julia Perry, University Medical Center Göttingen
Anticipation and Decision-Making regarding NIPT in Germany
18:00 – 18:10: Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, University of Lübeck
Summary: The German Case
Thursday 27th October 2022
SESSION 3: THE FRENCH CASE
09:30 – 10:00: Caroline Lafarge, University of West London & Isabelle Ville, EHESS
The collective labouring of emotions in the context of pregnancy termination for fetal anomaly in France: a socio-political perspective
10:00 – 10:30: Laurence Lohmann, Laboratoire Cerba
Organization of NIPT in the prenatal course of pregnant women in France
10:30 – 11:00: Adeline Perrot, University of Oxford
Health professionals and scientists’ views on Genome-Wide NIPT in routine clinical care in France
11:00 – 11:10: Carine Vassy, University of Paris 13
Summary: The French Case
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee
CONCLUSION
11:30 – 11:40 Angus Clarke, Cardiff University
Commentary and key take-away messages
11:40 – 12:00 Ruth Horn
Final discussion and closure
Further information here: https://www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/Our-research/research-projects/nipt