Recent Advances in Neonatal Medicine (RANM) was organized in Tübingen, Germany for the first time in 1996. The aim was to bring together the most prominent international scientists and clinical researchers and ask them to summarize and discuss the most current clinical and scientific topics of neonatal medicine with an international audience. Among them were Mary E. Avery, Boston, Tore Curstedt, Stockholm, Anne Greenough, London, Gorm Greisen, Copenhagen, Henry L. Halliday, Belfast, Richard B. Johnston, Denver, Anthony D. Millner, London, Allistair Philip, Palo Alto, Kari O. Raivio, Helsinki, Bengt Robertson, Stockholm, Ola D. Saugstad, Oslo, Eric Shinwell, Beer-Sheva, and Joseph Volpe, Boston.
The quality, content, and format of the symposium were such a success that RANM subsequently continues to take place in Würzburg in three yearly intervals. By now RANM is one of the most respected and largest scientific educational conferences outside the USA, attracting attendees from over 70 nations worldwide. Certainly, its success does not only depend on the selection of the “hot” topics but also on the extremely dedicated speakers and moderators who have shared and discussed their tremendous expertise and knowledge with a perceptive and sophisticated audience.
RANM is celebrating its 10th edition in 2024, and we as editors-in-chief are very grateful to Karger Publishers for their offer to publish a special issue of review articles on this occasion. We have selected topics which address a number of burning areas in Neonatal Medicine and would like to express our gratitude to all authors of this project. This year’s RANM is dedicated to Michael Obladen, Berlin, a pioneer of German and European neonatology.
Christian P. Speer, Ola D. Saugstad
