1. Healthcare

Program Overview:
This symposium is designed to provide practitioners
who care for newborns with the most up-to-date
knowledge of issues that are commonly encountered in
critically ill neonates.
Target Audience:
Neonatologists, Pediatricians, Neonatology Fellows,
Neonatology Nurse Practitioners, Neonatal Intensive Care
Unit Nurses and Pediatric Residents
This symposium will highlight current concepts of
prevention and management of problems in the
newborn infant. The goal of this symposium is to
provide attendees with tools to improve quality of care
for newborns. To achieve this goal we will provide an
in-depth educational program that focuses on the
importance of the preventive approach in minimizing
medical complications and optimizing continuity of care
for high-risk infants and their families.
Objectives:
The symposium will provide attendees with an up-to-date
knowledge of the latest developments in neonatal care that
will guide evidence-based changes in practice and performance to improve the outcomes of common problems in
the newborn.
After attending, participants should be able to:
• Learn of novel pre-clinical scientific studies for imaging
and treatment for neonates with brain injury
• Recognize the spectrum of clinical trials available for
infants with HIE
• Examine clinical and community interventions that
improve newborn survival
• Identify barriers and strategies to strengthen health systems
to improve perinatal health in low resource settings
• Describe the treatment strategies being employed to alter
the natural history of cardiac defects before birth
• Recognize high-risk and low-risk maternal and infant
factors for serious bacterial infection
• Review consequences of growth failure in the neonatal
intensive care setting
• Assess novel technologies being developed for extracorporeal treatment of respiratory failure in the neonate
• Discuss limits of lung viability
• Describe the absolute and relative indications for surgery
in neonates with NEC
• Review current state of the art surgical emergencies of the
newborn brain
Mission Statement:
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children strives to provide
a variety of continuing medical education programs for
physicians, physicians-in-training, and other health care
professionals that are structured to foster life-long
learning by utilizing the principles of adult education.
These educational programs are designed to meet specific
needs applicable to the rapidly changing healthcare
environment.
Accreditation:
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children is accredited by
the Pennsylvania Medical Society to provide continuing
medical education for physicians. St. Christopher’s
Hospital for Children designates this live activity for a
maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™.
Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with
the extent of their participation in the educational
activity.
Nursing Accreditation:
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is approved as a
provider of continuing education in nursing by the
Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by
the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission
on Accreditation. Up to 7.0 contact hours will be
awarded for participation in this program.
Services:
If you have special needs that we can address to make
your participation more meaningful and enjoyable, please
contact the CME office at (215) 427-5159.
Tax Deductibility:
Expenses for education, training, tuition and travel to
maintain and improve professional skills may be tax
deductible. Please consult your tax advisor.
Conflict of Interest:
Faculty and all other speakers who have the ability to
control the content of continuing medical education
activities sponsored by St. Christopher’s Hospital for
Children are expected to disclose to the audience
whether or not they have any real or apparent conflict(s)
of interest or other relationships related to the content of
their presentation(s).
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
presents:
The 18th Annual Conference
A DAY
WITH THE
NEWBORN:
“AN INVESTMENT IN
OUR FUTURE”
Friday, January 30, 2015
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Frances J. Northington, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatology
Director of Neurosciences
Intensive Care Nursery Program
Neonatal Research Laboratory
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
PROGRAM DIRECTOR:
Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, MD
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
3601 A Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134-1095
TEL: 215-427-5159
www.stchristophershospital.com
A Day With The Newborn: Friday, January 30, 2015
Program Director:
10:50
Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos, MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology, Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics, Physiology and OB/GYN
Drexel University College of Medicine
The Ralph W. Brenner Chair in Pediatrics
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
7:15
7:45
Registration and Coffee
Sarah S. Long, MD
11:30
8:00
12:10
Lunch
1:30
Can We Predict the transition of Medical NEC to
Surgical NEC?
Frances J. Northington, MD
9:00
Refreshment Break
9:30
Life Outside the Modern NICU: Infant Care in the
Developing World
Deborah Campbell, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, NY
10:10
Prenatal Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease: Can
We Change Natural History Before Birth and Improve
Outcomes After Birth?
Jack Rychik, MD
Robert and Dolores Harrington Endowed
Chair in Cardiology
Perelman School of Medicine at PENN
Director, Fetal Heart Program at the
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Continuing Medical Education
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
3635 N. Front Street • Philadelphia, PA 19134
TEL: 215-427-5159 FAX: 215-427-6080
Email: [email protected]
Make check payable to:
St. Christopher’s Foundation for Children
Shaheen Timmapuri, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Co-Director, Regional Fetal Evaluation Center
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy:
State of the Art for Neuroprotection
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Neurosciences
Intensive Care Nursery Program
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
EARLY REGISTRATION IS ADVISED
Please send this completed registration form
with payment by MAIL or FAX to:
The Challenge of Ventilating Fetal Lungs
William Fox, MD
Chief Executive Officer
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
Drexel University College of Medicine
A Day With The Newborn
Friday, January 30, 2015
Professor of Pediatrics
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Infant Breathing Disorder Center
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Welcome
David J. Schonfeld, MD, FAAP
Controversies in Diagnosis and Therapy of Neonatal
Sepsis
Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Chief, Section of Infectious Disease
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Carolyn Jackson
Introduction
REGISTRATION
2:10
Surgical Emergencies in the Newborn Brain
Prithvi Narayan, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Chief, Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
2:50
Coffee Break
3:10
Controversies in Feeding the Very Low Birth Weight
Infant
Harpreet Pall, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Chief, Section of Gastroenterology
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
3:50
ECMO 2015: 25 Years of Experience
Daniel H. Conway, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Director, ECMO Program
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
4:30
Adjourn
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Registration Fee: $100 Fee includes continental breakfast,
refreshments, buffet lunch, parking and course materials.
Program location:
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Angelo M. DiGeorge Teaching Center
Lower Atrium
160 E. Erie Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19134
www.stchristophershospital.com