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Grand Rounds-Thursday, November 12, 2009
Women & Infants Hospital-South Pavilion Auditoriums
 
Come hear Dr. Nils Bergman, world-renowned expert on Kangaroo Mother Care/Skin to Skin Care for premature infants, speak at our upcoming two day symposium.  Learn how the benefits of Kangaroo Mother Care right from birth have resulted in a five-fold improvement in the survival of very low birth weight babies.

Date: Thursday
November 12, 2009
 
Location: Women and Infants Hospital-South Pavilions
101 Dudley Street
Providence, RI
 
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Schedule: Grand Rounds-Thursday, November 12, 2009

RI Prematurity Summit Grand Rounds*
2009 Summit Chair, Betty Vohr, MD
Director, Neonatal Follow-up Clinic, Women & Infants
Professor of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

7:00 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. Grand Rounds

Perinatal Neuroscience and Skin-to-Skin Contact
Nils Bergman, MB, ChB, DCH, MPH, MD

RI Prematurity Task Force Update*
Maureen G. Phipps, MD, MPH, Chair
Division Director for Research in the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Call to Action
David Gifford, MD, MPH
Director, RI Department of Health

Please register online by November 6, 2009. For more information contact: March of Dimes at 401.454.1911 or ri440@marchofdimes.com
or visit www.marchofdimes.com/rhodeisland.
*CEU’s and CME’s available