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Setting the stage for the inaugural debate of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research's 25th annual meeting.

The 25th annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research (SPER) promised to be a special event. Incumbent President Enrique Schisterman, keen to do something different for the Silver Anniversary meeting, encouraged K.S. Joseph to organise a debate. K.S. did not need much encouragement, especially as he had the opportunity to choose the topic. He chose iatrogenic late preterm birth, a subject that is both topical and contentious. K.S. coming from an obstetrics background was aware that his views were divergent, or at least diverging, from those of his long time mentor and friend Michael Kramer, whose background is in paediatrics: hence two teams were formed to debate: