| The Prematurity Conference will bring together medical professionals, insurers, government officials, business leaders, educators and families to discuss factors contributing to Kansas’ premature birth rate and to develop an action plan to prevent preterm birth. In this forum, experts and stakeholders will share ideas and challenges and discuss model programs designed to reduce premature birth rates. Conferees will also have the opportunity to join the Kansas Prematurity Coalition comprised of maternal and infant champions statewide!
Community Call to Action: A Medical Conference on Prematurity is presented by the Greater Kansas Chapter of the March of Dimes in collaboration with the Perinatal Association of Kansas and the Mother and Child Health Coalition.
7:30 – 8 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
8 a.m. Welcome - Kansas Senator Vicki Schmidt (invited)
8:15 – 8:45 a.m. The State of Prematurity - Robert G. Holcomb, MD, Neonatologist; Sunflower Neonatology Associates
8:45 – 9:45 a.m. The Impact of Premature Birth: Families, the Health Care System and Business - David T. Tayloe, Jr., MD, FAAP;
President, American Academy of Pediatrics; Goldsboro Pediatrics, P.A.
9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Preventing Late Preterm Birth - Jodi Jackson, MD; Neonatologist, Children’s Mercy Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UMKC School of Medicine
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch
Kansas Prematurity Snapshot (panel)
• Elective C-Sections and Inductions Quality Indicator Project - HCA Midwest (invited)
• Disparities in Premature Birth - Timothy L. Bennett, MD (invited), Maternal & Fetal Medicine, Truman Medical Center
• Comprehensive Prenatal Care - Sandy Grantella, Children’s Mercy Family Health Partners
12:45 – 1:30 p.m. Community Solutions – Statewide Prematurity Coalitions (pending)
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Action Plan and Discussion |
