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Women's Health Grand Rounds

Breast Milk and Breastfeeding for NICU Infants

Breastfeeding Grand Rounds 2003 sponsored by the NYS Institute for Human Lactation

Program: This program gives physicians, decision-makers, and teams the basic information necessary to support breastfeeding and implement best practices in breastfeeding management in the neonatal intensive care unit. It also featured clips from A Premie Needs His Mother, an educational film about breastfeeding premature infants by Jane Morton, MD.

Speakers:

  • Ruth A. Lawrence, MD, Author of Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession; Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester

  • Richard Schanler, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Chief, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, North Shore University Hospital

  • Karlene H. Hill, BS, RN, IBCLC, CCE, CLC, and CIMI, OB/GYN Nursing, University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital
Moderator: Mary Applegate, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Bureau of Women's Health, NYS Department of Health

Objectives:
After viewing the broadcast, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of breast milk for premature infants and their mothers.
  • Describe the logistical challenges involved in providing breast milk for premature infants and transitioning them to feeding at the breast.
  • Describe hospital and community resources that can support nursing mothers with premature infants.

Satellite broadcast originally aired August 5, 2003

Major support for this program comes from the NYS Department of Health and the USDHHS Material and Child Health Bureau.

This Educational Activity is presented by the School of Public Health Continuing Education, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the New York State Nurses Association’s Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. It has been approved for 2.0 contact hours and has been assigned approval code 5RLL8T-PRV-04-023.

The School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for 1.0 Category One credits towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

This activity is sponsored by the School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for the CHES to receive 1.0 Category 1 CECH in health education.

 

 
 
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