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This satellite broadcast provides health care professionals with up-to-date information on synthetic folic acid and its health benefits, including its role in reducing certain types of birth defects, called neural tube defects. The program focused on the role health care providers have in providing information on the benefits of folic acid to women of childbearing age as a part of routine medical care.

Funding for this project is from the Indirect Vitamins Purchasers Antitrust Litigation Settlement administered by the Attorney General.

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

• Identify the correct amount of folic acid that all women capable of becoming pregnant should take to decrease the risk of a neural tube defect-affected pregnancy.
• List ways women of childbearing age can receive the recommended daily allowance of folic acid.
• Explain how folic acid works to improve perinatal and other health outcomes.
• Affirm their role in getting the folic acid message out to women of reproductive age.
• Accurately advise their patients/clients on the health benefits of folic acid.

Speaker:

Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr., MD, MSPH

Dr. Oakley is a visiting professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA and is retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following a 30-year career as a Medical Epidemiologist with the Public Health Service. He is an internationally recognized expert on pediatric and perinatal epidemiology, with an emphasis on birth defects, developmental disabilities, and genetics.

The Women’s Health Grand Rounds series has been endorsed by the New York State Chapters of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Continuing Education
The School of Public Health, University at Albany, is accredited by the Medical Society of the State of New York to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 category one credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.

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 Associations' Council on Continuing Education, which is accredited by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. It has been designated for 1.5 contact hours and has been assigned code 54NLRE-PRV-02-056.

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 up to 1.5 Category I CECH in health education.

Continuing education credits will be available for Registered Dieticians, Dietary Technicians, and Dietary Managers.

Videos
Videos and videostreaming of previous Women's Health Grand Rounds are now available.

Last update: November 24, 2003