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NBDPN 2009: Advances and Opportunities for Birth Defects Surveillance, Research, and Prevention 

Annual Meeting Sessions and Presentations

*Presentations available for select speakers*

 

Monday, February 23, 2009

8:00-8:45AM

Welcoming Opening Session:
NBDPN
Craig Mason (ME) and Amy Case (TX)
NCBDDD, CDC
Edwin Trevathan (CDC), NCBDDD Director
March of Dimes
Melanie Lockhart (DC), Director of State and Chapter Affairs            

  

8:45AM-11:00AM

National Birth Defects Prevention Study: Exploring the Risk Factors (Synopsis)
Moderator: Margaret (Peggy) Honein (CDC)
Speakers: Jennita Reefhuis (CDC), Andy Olshan (NC), Marlene Anderka (MA), and Mary Jenkins (CDC)

 

11:00AM-11:45AM

Standards for Birth Defects Surveillance (Synopsis)
Moderator: Carol Stanton (CO)
Speakers: Lowell Sever (WA) and Brad McDowell (IA)

 
 

1:30PM–3:00PM

 

 

 

Concurrent Breakout Session A
1) Treatment and Service Systems for Children with Special Health Care Needs (Synopsis)
Moderator: Leslie Beres-Sochka (NJ)
Speakers: Shirley Babler (CO), Samara Viner-Brown (RI), and Michelle Norwick (WV)

2) The Scope of the Problem: Patterns of  Obesity among Women of Childbearing Age (Synopsis)
Moderator:  Wendy Nembhard (FL)
Speakers: Molly Lamb (CDC), Sonja Rasmussen (CDC)

3) Update on Environmental Public Health Tracking and Birth Defects (Synopsis)
Moderator: Leslie O’Leary (CDC)
Speakers: Heather Strosnider (CDC), Jane Correia (FL), Jason Salemi (FL), and Diana Sampat (FL)

 

 

 

 

3:30PM–5:00PM

Concurrent Breakout Session B
1) Using Residual Blood Spots from Newborn Screening Programs for Public Health Research (Synopsis)
Moderator: Richard Olney (CDC)
Speakers: Mark Canfield (TX), Janice Bach (MI), and Bob Meyer (NC)

2) Different Strokes: How the Mission and Objectives of a Birth Defects Program Shape its Data Collection & Uses (Synopsis)
Moderator: David Law (TN)
Speakers: Leslie Beres-Sochka (NJ), Marcia Feldkamp (UT) and Myron Falken (MN)

3) Realities of Moving from a Paper Surveillance System to an Online System – Tips for those for want to go there (Synopsis)
Moderator: Ann Phelps (TX)
Speakers: Jan Cragan (CDC), Renu Balakrishnan (CDC), Olga Barer (CA), Barbara Warmerdam (CA), and Phil Cross (NY)

  

 

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

8:00AM-9:50AM

Plenary Session:
Here’s Looking at You: Defects of the Head and Neck
Moderator: Angela Lin (MA)
Embryology of  the Head and Neck and Associated Birth Defects (Synopsis)
Thomas Sadler (MT)

The Pathogenesis and Etiology of Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate: One Clinician’s Journey (Synopsis)
Marilyn Jones (CA)

Anotia/Microtia (Synopsis)
Angela Scheurele (TX)

Craniosynostosis: Clinical and Epidemiological Perspectives (Synopsis)
Sonja Rasmussen (CDC)

 

10:10AM-11:45AM

Plenary Session continues:

Selected Syndromes of the Head and Neck (Synopsis)
G. Bradley Schaefer (AR)

Prenatal Diagnosis of the Head and Neck
Jan Byrne (UT)

 

1:30PM–3:00PM

Concurrent Breakout Session C
1) Fecundity, ART and Birth Defects? Can Directed Acrylic Graphs Help With Causal Thinking? (Synopsis)
Moderator: Charlotte Druschel (NY)
Speaker: Germaine Buck Louis (NIH)

2) Extending Folic Acid Education to Families Affected by Neural Tube Defects (Synopsis)
Moderator: Richard Olney (CDC)
Speakers: Julianne Byrne (Ireland), Ridgely Fisk-Green (CDC), Margaret Ruttenber (CO), and Joan Ehrhardt (MI)

3) Long-Term Outcomes of Children with Birth Defects (Synopsis)
Moderator: Mark Canfield (TX)
Speakers: Richard Urbano and Robert Hodapp (TN), Wendy Nembhard (FL), and Adolfo Correa (CDC)

 

 

 

 

3:30PM-5:00PM

Concurrent Breakout Session D
1) Remote Access to Electronic Medical Records (Synopsis)
Moderator: Miland Palmer (UT)
Speakers: Ann Phelps (TX), Barbara Warmerdam (CA), and Marlena Clary (SC)

2) Epi 201: Statistical Approaches to Rare Outcomes (Synopsis)
Moderator: Russ Kirby (FL)
Speaker: Richard Charnigo (KY)

3) Research Implications of Defect Classification and Coding Practices (Synopsis)
Moderator: Lisa Marengo (TX)
Speakers: Angela Scheuerle (TX), Bob Meyer (NC), and Marcia Feldkamp (UT)

 

 

 

5:00PM-7:00PM

Poster Session Reception and Awards

Poster Abstracts

 

 

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

8:00AM – 9:30AM

Concurrent Breakout Session E
1) Program Evaluation: Getting to Outcomes Using Logic Models and Other Tools (Synopsis)
Moderator: Amy Case (TX)
Speakers: Cara Mai (CDC), Janice Bach and Joan Ehrhardt (MI), Carol Stanton (CO)

2) National Children’s Study: Implications for Birth Defects Programs (Synopsis)
Moderator: Adolfo Correa (CDC)
Speakers: Carol H. Kasten (NIH), Adolfo Correa (CDC), and Myron Falken (MN)

3) Head and Neck Codes: Something to hang your hat (or balaclava) on (Synopsis)
Moderator: Ann Phelps (TX)
Speaker: Angela Scheurele (TX)

 

 

10:00AM –11:00AM

Plenary Session: Chronic Exposure to Radionuclides in Animals Living in the Shadow of Chernobyl: Lessons for Human Populations? (Synopsis)
Moderator: Judy Major (NC)
Speaker: Timothy Mousseau (SC)

 

11:00AM-11:45AM

Closing Plenary Session: Michelle Gilligan-Prichard, country music singer and founder of Mending Limbs
Moderator: Amy Case (TX)

 

 

 
 
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