NICU Services offered at Centerpoint Medical Center, Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park Regional Medical Center and Research Medical Center.
Conference Information
Conference Agenda – coming soon!
This conference will enable the participant to:
- To determine what is known about the enteral macro- and micronutrient intake to optimize preterm infant outcomes.
- Immediately recognize appropriate candidates for therapeutic hypothermia and implement treatment in accordance with national guidelines.
- Identify the negative and positive stressors on iron balance in the preterm infant and the neurodevelopmental consequences of iron underload.
- Discuss the impact of parental engagement in the NICU on developmental outcomes.
- Discuss the impact of marijuana use during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes.
- Describe cell therapies for complications of extreme prematurity.
- To learn about opportunities and challenges of cell therapies for improving outcomes for preterm infants.
Conference Speakers
Sarah Taylor, MD
Dr. Sarah Taylor is a Professor of Pediatrics and a physician scientist in Neonatal Perinatal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. She directs the Yale Neonatal NOuRISH team which investigates, through translational studies and clinical trials, how fetal and neonatal metabolic and nutritional exposures impact infant growth and development. In addition to research conduction, the Yale Neonatal NOuRISH program is training the next generation of neonatal nutrition scientists. Dr. Taylor is honored to bring her nutrition science expertise to workgroups which are setting priorities for maternal and infant health research such as the National Institutes of Child Health and Development (NICHD) and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) Pre-B Project, the AND Evidence Analysis Library preterm infant systematic review, the NICHD Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN) project and the NICHD Task Force on Research Specific to Pregnant and Lactating Women. Dr. Taylor has a special interest in human milk and lactation. She has served on the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation executive council and currently serves on the executive board for the Human Milk Banking Association of North America. In 2015, while on faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina, she started the Mother’s Milk Bank of South Carolina.
Leif Nelin, MD
Dr. Nelin is the Division Chief of Neonatology at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Dean Jeffers Endowed Chair in Neonatology and a Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Clinically, Dr. Nelin is particularly interested in respiratory diseases, specifically in how pulmonary blood flow affects newborn respiratory diseases. Thus, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn(PPHN) is one of his primary clinical interests. This has lead to his research interest in nitric oxide (NO), a potent vasodilator whose production is decreased in patients with PPHN. Utilizing cell culture techniques, isolated perfused lungs and animal preparations, Dr. Nelin studies the mechanisms that determine biological availability of the amino acid L-arginine on the ability of the lungs to produce NO and thereby regulate blood flow. The ultimate goal of this research is to understand the pathophysiology of PPHN and to develop new and specific therapies for the treatment of lung diseases that are characterized by alterations in NO production. A second area of research interest is the study of the developmental toxicology of inhaled NO.
Martha Sola-Visner, MD
Dr. Martha Sola-Visner was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. She obtained her medical degree at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador, and then moved to the U.S. to pursue residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Florida, where she trained in neonatal hematology under the mentorship of Dr. Robert Christensen. Dr. Sola-Visner completed her training in 2000, and stayed at the University of Florida as an attending neonatologist. She and her family then moved to the Northeast, and she joined the Division of Newborn Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2007. She is currently an attending neonatologist and director of Newborn Medicine Clinical Research at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sola-Visner has dedicated her research career to study neonatal megakaryocyte and platelet biology and neonatal transfusion medicine.
Britton Zuccarelli, MD
Dr. Britton Zuccarelli MD is a practicing child neurologist from Salina, KS. As a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology for the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Salina, she has the pleasure of mentoring physicians in training, as well as family medicine residents as an attending physician through the Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Zuccarelli interprets electroencephalograms for ten hospitals across Kansas including Overland Park Regional Medical Center. In her free time, Dr. Zuccarelli enjoys running as a member of the Ainsley’s Angels racing team and spending time with her husband, a physical therapist, and their three children.
Stephen Lassen, PhD
Dr. Lassen is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Kansas. He completed his residency in Clinical Child Psychology/Pediatric Psychology at Harvard Medical School and his postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Lassen’s clinical and research interests include perinatal mental health, children with chronic or life-limiting illnesses and their families, as well as the impact of parental illness on children. Dr. Lassen serves in leadership roles in various mental health and medical organizations and lectures regularly to regional and national audiences on a variety of mental health issues.
Registration Information
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Target Audience
This is a program for Neonatal Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Neonatologists, Pediatricians, Pediatric Su -Specialists, Respiratory Therapists, Dieticians, and Allied Health Professionals who wish to increase their knowledge and understanding of the latest clinically applicable concepts as they relate to the high-risk neonates.
Accreditation
Overland Park Regional Medical Center is accredited by the Colorado Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Overland Park Regional Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of six (6.0) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Overland Park Regional Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing education in nursing by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering is approved for 6 contact hours for RN or LPN relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing Provider No. LT0225-0738. The program must be attended in its entirety to receive continuing education credit. Any participant wishing other continuing education credit must contact his/her professional organization for approval.
Overland Park Regional Medical Center CEU Evaluator has approved this program for 6 hours of Respiratory Continuing Education on behalf of the Kansas Respiratory Care Society, a chapter society of the AARC. Providership KRCS #018.