Posters and Presentations

• New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative
  • a. Toxicology Screening (TS) Policies/Practices for Perinatal Substance Use in New York State (NYS) Birthing Hospitals (BH). Michael Horgan, MD, Amanda Roy, MPH, Solita Jones, MS, Anne Marie Reynolds, MD, MPH, Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH; New York   State Perinatal Association Annual Conference; Albany, New York; June 2018.
    
    
  • b. Toxicology Screening (TS) Policies/Practices for Perinatal Substance Use in New York State (NYS) Birthing Hospitals (BH). Michael Horgan, MD, Amanda Roy, MPH, Solita Jones, MS, Anne Marie Reynolds, MD, MPH, Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH; Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting; Toronto, Canada; May 2018.
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  • c. Toxicology Screening Practices for Perinatal Substance Use Among New York State Birthing Hospitals. Amanda Roy, MPH, Solita Jones, MS, Eileen Shields, BA, Kristen Lawless, MS, and Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH; Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Annual Conference; Arlington, Virginia; February 2018.
  
  
  • b. New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Kristen Lawless, MS, Amanda Roy, MPH and Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH; National Network of Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Conference; Fort Worth, Texas; November 2016.
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  • c. Collaborative Approaches to Improving Perinatal Health; Marilyn Kacica, M.D., M.P.H. and Kristen Lawless, MS. March of Dimes Perinatal Nurses Conference; White Plains, NY, March 23, 2015.
    
    
  • d. New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative (NYSPQC): Improving Perinatal Health Through Partnerships and Collaboration; Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH and Kristen Farina, MS; Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) Annual Conference; Washinton D.C., February 2013.
  
  
  • e. New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative (NYSPQC): Building and Sustaining a Collaborative; Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH and Barbara Murphy, RN, MSN; 2013.
  
  
  • f. Perinatal Quality Collaboratives 101; Marilyn Kacica, M.D., M.P.H. and Barbara Rose, M.P.H., R.N.; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Perinatal Quality Collaborative Webinar Series; October 15, 2012.
    
    
• Obstetrical Improvement Project
  • a. New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative Obstetrical Improvement Project: Reducing Preterm Scheduled Deliveries Without Appropriate Medical Indication; Marilyn Kacica, M.D., M.P.H., et al.; New York State Department of Health Poster Day; November 2012.
    
    
• Neonatal Improvement Projects
  a. Statewide Collaborative to Reduce Infant Mortality (IM) through Improved Hospital-based Safe Sleep (SS) Education and In-hospital Practices. Deborah Campbell, MD, Solita Jones, MS, Kristen Lawless, MS, Amanda Roy, MPH, Marilyn Kacica, MD, MPH; Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting; Toronto, Canada; May 2018.
  
  
  • b. New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative: Promoting Infant Safe Sleep to Reduce Infant Mortality. Kristen Lawless, MS, Deborah Campbell, MD, FAAP, and Pat Heinrich, RN, MSN; Massachusetts NICU Safe Sleep Project Conference; Waltham, MA; December 2016.
    
    
  • c. How to Leverage State Perinatal Quality Collaboratives to Improve Safe Sleep Practices; Munish Gupta, M.D,. M.M.Sc, Marilyn Kacica, M.D., MPH, Kristen Lawless, M.S., and Peggy Settle, R.N., Ph.D.; National Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network Learning Session; Boston, MA; July 30, 2015.
    
    
  • d. Risk of Postnatal Growth Restriction Varies Five-Fold Among Infants <31 Weeks Gestation Cared for in New York State Designated Regional Perinatal Centers; Marilyn Kacica, M.D., M.P.H. and Eileen Shields; New York State Department of Health Poster Day; November 2012.
    
    
• Safer Sleep
  • a. Safer Sleep for Babies (Part 1): State, Hospital and Community
    Collaboration.  Kacica M, Lawless K, Grippi C, Crockett E. New York State Perinatal Association Conference, Albany, NY, June 2017.
    
    
  • b. Safer Sleep for Babies (Part 2): Initiatives and Challenges in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.  Campbell D, Kacica M, Lawless K.  New York State Perinatal Association Conference, Albany, June 2017.
    
    
  • c. New York State’s Infant Safe Sleep Project: Developing and Strengthening Partnerships to Reduce Sleep Related Infant Mortality.  Lawless K, Roy A, Slade S, Cleghorn E, Sepowski M, Kacica M.  New York State Perinatal Association Conference, Albany, NY, June 2017.