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Optimizing Birth Outcomes: Quality Care, Effective Policies and Emerging Research
June 7, 2018 @ 7:30 am - June 8, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
$350Event Navigation
The PREMIER Perinatal Health Education Conference in NYS!
NYS Perinatal Association / 32nd Annual Conference
Visit the NYSPA website: www.nysperinatal.org for detailed conference information, sessions & speakers or to download the Call for Abstracts/Posters.
Take advantage of this great opportunity to share and showcase your research, study, pilot project or best practice in the perinatal health field.
Conference Agenda:
Thursday, June 7, 2018
7:30—8:15 Registration & Exhibits
8:15—8:30 Welcome, Introduction to Conference
8:30—9:30 Keynote: Health Equity in Maternal & Infant Health
Kelly Davis, MPA, NYC Birth Equity Initiative Director at NYC Dept. Health and Mental Hygiene
9:30—10:30 Improving Maternal and Child Outcomes in NYS
Wendy Shaw, Deputy Director, Division of Family Health, NYS Dept. of Health
10:30—11:00 Break/Exhibits/Abstracts
11:05—12:05 Value-Based Payment : Maternity, Delivery & Infant Care
Panel: Elie Ward, MSW, NYSAAP, Dir. of Policy and Advocacy, Douglas Fish, MD, Medical Director, NYS DOH, Office of Health Insurance Programs, Moderator: Kate Breslin, President and CEO, SCAA
12:15—1:40 Lunch – NYSPA Annual Review and Awards Program
1:45—2:45 PM Keynote: Caring for Newly Arrived Immigrant Children & Families
Alan Shapiro, MD, FAAP
Montefiore Health Systems,
Sr. Medical Dir. and Co-Founder of Community Pediatrics Program, Terra Firma: Healthcare and Justice for Immigrant Children
2:50—3:30 Partnering for Perinatal Health in NYS
Panel: AAP– Elie Ward, MSW, NYSAAP Dir. Of Policy and Advocacy, Christa Christakis, Executive Director, ACOG, Kathryn Mitchell, MPH, Maternal and Child Health Dir., March of Dimes, Moderator: Joy Henderson, MD, Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology & Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
3:30—3:40 Break/Exhibits/Abstracts
4:00—5:00 Concurrent Sessions:
- Value Based Payment —
Douglas Fish, MD
Medical Director of NYS Dept. of Health, Office of Health Insurance Programs
Division of Program Development and Management - Electronic Cigarettes: Translating Science into Action —
Amrute Bamanikar, MBBS, MPH
Boston Children’s Health Physicians
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, N.Y.
Shetal Shah, MD
Medical College, Neonatologist
Maria FareriChildren’s Hospital,
Dilani Wasasinghe, MD
Westchester Medical Center
Neonatal Fellow in Training
Maria Fareri Children’sHospital - Addressing Disparities in Donor Milk Availability: NYS Medicaid Reimbursement for Pasteurized Donor Human Milk —
Julie Bouchet-Horwitz, FNP-BC, IBCLC
N.Y. Milk Bank, Executive Dir.
Hudson Valley Breastfeeding, President
Susan Vierczhalek, MD, FAAP
Dir. of Low Risk New Born Services
Bellevue Hospital Pediatrics - Reproductive Health Justice: Well Babies Start with Equity —
Lauren Deutsch, JD, ESQ
Executive Dir. Of Healthy Baby Network - The Behavioral and Cognitive Science of Personalized Perinatal Practice…
More details at: www.nysperinatal.org
