2025 M3 Pre-Conference Workshop
Add a Pre-Conference Workshop session to your M3 Conference experience!
M3 Pre-Conference Workshop (Optional)
Workshop Details
- Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
- Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
- Workshop Title: Newborn-Child Health
- Location: Lakewood Church, 3700 Southwest Freeway, Houston, Texas 77027 (4th Floor)
Workshop Description
Newborns and children are especially vulnerable to illness and death, and improvements in health services hold great potential to protect them. This workshop addresses the unique and especially critical issues of newborn-child healthcare, including prenatal care, nutrition, newborn resuscitation, well-newborn care, and common neonatal and childhood diseases.
Workshop Details
- Workshop Hosted By: Institute for International Medicine (INMED)
- Workshop Facilitators: Nicholas Comninellis MD, MPH, DIMPH; Sam Fabiano, MD, FCS(ECSA); Hannah Myrick Anderson, MD; Hibba Haider, MD, MIH; Diane Petrie, MSN, FNP, APRN
- Capacity: Space is limited, and registrations will be accepted on a first come, first registered basis.
- Parking Info: More information will be sent to you by email.
Schedule
Morning session
8:00am - 8:20am
Newborn-Child Health Overview (Comninellis)
8:20 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
The Impact of Poverty on Child Health (Petrie)
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.
Prenatal Care (Anderson)
9:40 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Break
9:50 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Well Child Care (Petrie)
10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m.
Pediatric Surgical Emergencies (Fabiano)
11:10 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Pediatric Emergency Care (Petrie)
Afternoon session
1:00 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.
Chronic Malnutrition and Stunting (Haider)
1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Helping Babies Breathe Newborn Resuscitation (Comninellis)
3:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
Break
3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Child health Cases Studies (Comninellis)
Competency Objectives:
- Explain the impact of poverty on child health.
- List essential principles of prenatal care
- List essential principles of well child care.
- Describe common pediatric surgical emergencies
- Explain the relationship between chronic malnutrition and stunting
- Describe basic newborn resuscitation
- Describe evaluation of common childhood syndromes.
Faculty
Nicholas Comninellis
MD, MPH, DIMPH, President & Professor, Institute for International Medicine
nicholas@inmed.us
+1 (816) 520-6900
Hannah Myrick Anderson
MD, Missionary physician in Honduras with Christian Health Service Corps
hannahmyrick@gmail.com
+1 (816) 726-9635
Sam Fabiano
MD, Faculty surgeon in Angola at CEML Hospital
samfabio@gmail.com
+241 (0) 7 67 62 58
Hibba Haider
MD, MIH, Pediatrician, Fatima Jinnah Medical University Lahore, Pakistan
hibbahaider@gmail.com
Diane Petrie
MSN, FNP, APRN, Nurse practitioner at Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City
dianerpetrie@gmail.com
Physician Continuing Education Credits
The Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Kentucky Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Institute for International Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Note: All course participants who complete the online course evaluation and credit claims form will received a certificate of completion that contains the CME statement. This can be submitted to the respective course participants professional organization for continuing education credit. All non-physician learners who successfully complete all of the course requirements – including the Course Evaluation – will receive a Certificate of Completion indicating the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™ issued for completing the course. Non-physician learners can submit this to their corresponding professional organization for continuing education credit. It is up to their professional organization on whether they accept it.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING CME CREDIT: If you choose the CME option, your contact information (name, email address, and phone number) will be shared with INMED to help in processing your CME credits.
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