The Lower Hudson Valley Perinatal Network (LHVPN) hosted another successful education & networking conference, Planning for Life: The Importance of Preconception Health & Health Care on June 19, 2007 at The Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home in Hyde Park, NY (Dutchess County). The conference served to inform professionals about the CDC recommendations regarding preconception health and health care and create action items for each county to implement the strategies shared at the conference...Read more
Featured speakers and Presentations:
LHVPN 10-year perinatal trend data by county and race and ethnicity for 1995-2004
Cheryl Hunter-Grant, LMSW, Executive Director of the LHVPN
Preconception Care for the Primary Care Provider
Peter Bernstein, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Preconception Care and Maternal Mortality: How to Save a Life
Ashlesha Dayal, MD, Associate Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and Assistant Professor in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health at the Albert Einstein College of MedicineRecommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care — United States - A Report of the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care. Recommendations and Reports April 21, 2006 / Vol. 55 / No. RR-6
