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Annual Perinatal Conference
Challenges in Perinatal Care
March 29, 2007

Wyndham Roanoke Hotel
Roanoke, VA

Blue Ridge Perinatal Council
Perinatal Outreach Education
Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital

Conference Description
This conference is designed for nurses, obstetricians, pediatricians, and family practice physicians working in perinatal care. Nurses and nurse midwives may also benefit from this conference.

Conference Objectives
Upon completion of this conference participants will be able to:

 

Guest Faculty

Margarita de Veciana, MD
Associate Professor
Eastern Virginia Medical School
OB/GYN, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division
Director, Diabetes in Pregnancy Program and Perinatal Research

Gary Helmbrecht, MD
Perinatologist
Martha Jefferson Hospital
Charlottesville, VA

Betty Connal, RN, MS
Executive Director
Sudden Infant Death Services of the Mid-Atlantic

Joan-Corder Mabe, RNC, MS, WHNP
Director, Division of Women's and Infant's Health
Virginia Department of Health


Carilion Health System Faculty

Karen Binns-Loveman, M.D.
Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc.

John Dinsmore, MD
Pediatric Surgeon

Ann Jewell, MS, CGC
Genetic Counselor
Prenatal Diagnostic Center

Larry Dennis, MD
Director, Maternal/Fetal Medicine, Prenatal Diagnostic Center

Manuel Peregrino, M.D.
Medical Director
Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc.

Lynda Cook Sawyer, RNC, MBA, IBCLC
Director: Mother/Baby Unit

Ann T. Heerens, MD
Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc.

Jacki Martin, RNC, MS, NNP, CCNS
Developmental Care Coordinator of NICU


Thursday, March 29, 2007

7:45-8:15 Registration
Continental Breakfast
Exhibits

8:15-8:25 Welcome

8:25-9:55 Sweet Sucess with Diabetes in Pregnancy
Margarita de Veciana, MD

9:55-10:15 BREAK/EXHIBITS

10:15-11:15 The Near Term Infant: Why 35-36 Weeks is Not Enough
Ann T. Heerens, MD

11:15-12:15 Perinatal Addiction Opiate Maintenance During Pregnancy
Gary Helmbrecht, MD

12:15-1:15 LUNCH/EXHIBITS

1:15-2:15 Concurrent Session I
1. Substance Exposed Newborns
Manuel Peregrino, MD
2. Challenges of Monitoring Multiples
Larry Dennis, MD
3. Legislation That Impacts Perinatal Providers, Joan Corder-Mabe, RN, MS, WHNP

2:15-2:25 BREAK/EXHIBITS

2:25-3:25 Concurrent Session II
4. Discharge and Follow up of the Medically Complicated Infant, Jackie Martin, RNC, MS, NNP, CCNS
5. Prenatal Smoking Cessation, Betty Connal, RN, MS
6. Ethics of End of life Dilemmas in Newborns, Karen Binns-Loveman, MD

3:30-4:30 Concurrent Session III
7. Evaluation of Fetal Deaths and Stillbirths
Ann Jewell, MS, CGC
8. Beware of the Baby that Vomits Green: Newborns with Abdominal Distention and Bilious Vomiting
John Dinsmore, MD
9. Successful Breastfeeding: Provider Skills That Make a Difference
Lynda Sawyer Cook, RNC, MBA, IBCLC

4:30 Evaluations/Adjourn

CME Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of The Medical Society of Virginia through the joint sponsorship of Carilion Health System and Blue Ridge Perinatal Council/Outreach Education. Carilion Health System is accredited by The Medical Society of Virginia to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Carilion Health System designates this continuing medical education activity for a maximum of (6.5) Category I credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

CE Credit
Nursing Continuing Education Credit has been applied for through Carilion Health System, which is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Virginia Nurses Association which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Centers Commission on Accreditation.

Registration

  • Tuition: $75.00
  • Tuition includes: program syllabus, CME's, CEU's, light lunch and breaks
  • Make Checks payable to: Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital
  • Registration Deadline: March 16, 2007
Please bring a jacket or sweater to ensure your comfort.

Location
Wyndham Roanoke Hotel
2801 Hershberger Rd., N.W.
Roanoke, Virginia

I-81 Exit 143 to I-581
Hershberger Rd. Exit 3W off of I-581
Right at Ordway Drive; Immediate right onto hotel service road.

Wyndham Roanoke Hotel has reserved a block of rooms at a conference rate of $47.00 + tax. Reservations must be made by March 16, 2007 to receive the conference rate. Accommodations may be made by calling directly (540) 563-9300. Request Carilion Perinatal Conference rate.

This program has been made possible in part through educational grants from Ross Laboratories and by a grant to Carilion Roanoke Community Hospital from the Virginia Department of Health with monies from the Division of Women's and Infant's Health, Maternal Child Health Title V Block Grant through the Blue Ridge Perinatal Council.

For more information, please contact:
Barbara Pack, MSN, RN
Roanoke, Virginia
(540) 985-9990 or (540) 985-9843
bpack@carilion.com

 
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