COMMITTEE ON FETUS & NEWBORN
NYS AAP – CHAPTER 2 MEETING
TOPIC
“Managing Acute and Chronic Lung Disease in Preemies: What’s New?”
SPEAKER
Rakesh Sahni, MD
Neonatologist
Children’s Hospital of New York, Division of Neonatology
Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Agenda:
5:45 pm – 9:00 pm – Lecture & Dinner
Goals:
- Physiological rationale for surfactant replacement therapy and the new “RDS”
- Pharmacology of available surfactants
- Randomized control trials of respiratory support and surfactant replacement strategies in RDS
- Emerging approaches for surfactant administration (minimally/non-invasive surfactant therapy on CPAP)
- Role of pulmonary vasodilators in chronic lung disease related pulmonary hypertension
- Non-invasive inhaled nitric oxide for respiratory failure in term and preterm infants
Please invite your Neonatologists, Neonatal Fellows, Neonatal NPs/PAs/RNs & Pediatricians
RSVP by October 30, 2015 (an early response would be greatly appreciated – limited seating)
Contacts:
Doreen Hunter
(516)663-3853 / Fax: (516)663-8955
E-mail dwynter@winthrop.org
or
Jessica Geslani
Asst. Exec. Dir., NYS AAP – Chapter 2
(516)326-0310
E-mail: jgeslani@aap.org
Conference Sponsored by: Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Planning Committee:
Renu Aggarwal, MD, FAAP
Chairperson, COMMITTEE ON FETUS & NEWBORN NYS AAP – Chapter 2
Parking is available in the municipal lot at North Station Plaza or on the corner of Linden Place
(both across from Colbeh)