Pre-Conference Program

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health

Neonatology

Neurology

Session Type: Pre-Conference Program

PAS Postgraduate Course: Better than expected: Neurodevelopment and follow-up of NICU infants for the next half century

Friday, April 28, 2023

8:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET

Chair(s)

Emily Tam, MDCM, MAS, FRCPC (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Pediatrics
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NM

Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute
atlanta, Georgia, United States

Disclosure(s):

Emily WY Tam, MDCM, MAS, FRCPC: No financial relationships to disclose

Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD: Enlighten Mobility (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Intellectual Property including patent beneficiary and royalties); Thrive Neuromedical (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

Session

Description: This postgraduate course will discuss our recent advancements in improving motor and cognitive outcomes in NICU graduates. Speakers will address how neonatal neuroimaging helps us to improve counselling, monitoring, and neurodevelopmental outcomes through the NICU follow-up clinic. Through real-world experiences, we will address the impact of social determinants of health and adversity on neurodevelopmental outcomes, and discuss new models of care to enable NICU follow-up clinics to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes of NICU graduates for the next half century. Bot didactic and interactive methods will be used to optimize learning and discussion between session participants.

Learning Objectives:

Identify advances to date in monitoring and improving motor and cognitive outcomes in the NICU follow-up clinic.
Utilize neonatal neuroimaging to better guide improved surveillance, counselling, and intervention for NICU graduates in the NICU follow-up clinic.
Identify key considerations for improving neurodevelopmental outcomes in the next half century, including considerations of social determinants of health, adversity, and resilience.

Presentations:

8:00 AM – 8:10 AM ET

Welcome and introduction
Speaker: Emily WY Tam, MDCM, MAS, FRCPC (she/her/hers) – The Hospital for Sick Children
8:10 AM – 8:35 AM ET

Surveillance and intervention to improve motor outcomes
Speaker: Nathalie Maitre, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Emory + Children’s Pediatric Institute
8:35 AM – 9:00 AM ET

Resilience and cognitive outcomes in NICU graduates
Speaker: Mary Lauren Neel, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
9:00 AM – 9:25 AM ET

How brain imaging helps us improve outcomes in newborns with congenital heart disease
Speaker: Steven Paul Miller, MDCM MAS (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM ET

Harnessing neuroimaging to guide our practice: an interactive review
Speaker: Mehmet N. Cizmeci, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
10:40 AM – 11:05 AM ET

Improving Neonatal Follow Up Locally through Statewide Collaboration: Lessons from California
Speaker: Elizabeth E. Rogers, MD (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
11:50 AM – 12:15 PM ET

Addressing social determinants of health and adversity
Speaker: Yvette R. Johnson, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Cook Children's Hospital
12:15 PM – 12:40 PM ET

New models of care for neonatal follow-up
Speaker: Jonathan S. Litt, MD, MPH, ScD (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center