2024 Pediatric Symposium: Building Bright Beginnings

2024 Pediatric Symposium: Building Bright Beginnings

Please join us for this year's Pediatric Symposium

By Covenant HealthCare

Date and time

Friday, May 17 · 7:30am - 3:30pm EDT

Location

Saginaw Valley State University - Gilbertson Hall

7400 Bay Road University Center, MI 48710

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Agenda

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

Opening Remarks

Rebecca S. Schultz, RN, BSN, MA, JD


Director of Women’s & Children’s Health Covenant HealthCare, Saginaw, MI

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM

Limits of Viability – How Low Can You Go

Martin Nwankwo, MD, FAAP


Medical Director, Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Covenant HealthCare, Saginaw, MI

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM

Newborn Nutrition

Stephanie Schacher, MS, RDN, FAND


Clinical Dietitian/Outpatient Pediatric Dietitian Covenant HealthCare, Saginaw, MI

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Newborn Development

Janelle Myers, OTR/L, CNT, NTMCT


Occupational Therapist Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation at Covenant HealthCare, Saginaw, MI

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Care of the Complex Newborn

Gayatri Shanker, MD, FAAP


Pediatrician Caring Pediatric Partners, PC

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Impact Speaker

Kelsey Quick-Loeffler


Mother of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Graduate

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Play Therapy

Kristie Clark, MA, LPC, RPT-STM

Abby Rainey, LMSW, RPTTM


Kristie Clark, School Counselor, Bullock Creek, MI and Private Practice, Saginaw, MI | Abby Rainey, Director of Counseling, Shelterhouse, Midland, MI and Owner, Common Spring Therapy Group, Midland, ...

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM - 3:15 PM

Implicit Bias*

Marcia Mastracci Ditmyer, PhD, MBA, MS


Dean, College of Health & Human Sciences Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI | *Meets 2.0 contact hours for Implicit Bias training regulations for the State of Michigan

About this event

  • 8 hours

Program Description: This program offers up-to-date research and care guidelines for complex newborns both in the acute and primary care settings, play therapy and implicit bias.

Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals involved in the care of pediatric patients.

Disclosures: The planner(s) and speaker(s) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Program Objectives:

  • Explain one change in neonatal medicine and how it has impacted our ability to care for earlier generations.
  • Identify one essential component of an infant nutrition assessment.
  • Identify one deficit that may indicate a need for therapy referral in infants less than six months of age.
  • Describe one way to support a parent caring for a medically complex newborn.
  • Describe the importance of play on child development, social skills, and emotional regulation.
  • Explain the neuroscience of implicit bias.

Tuition Cost:

  • EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION before April 19: $75.00
  • Registration April 19-May 3: $85.00
  • Registration May 4-May 15: $100.00
  • DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: May 15, 2024

For More Information: Contact 989.583.4426 or childbirtheducation@chs-mi.com

6.0 CME and ABP MOC Part 2 Credit Available*

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Central Michigan University College of Medicine and Covenant Children’s Hospital. CMU College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Central Michigan University College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 6 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to the ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.


Tickets

Early bird discount