MARCH 20, 2015
Prematurity Symposium
The Colorado Perinatal Care Council (CPCC) is pleased to announce that our
March meeting will be a prematurity symposium at the Medical Center of Aurora. We will discuss the problems of prematurity and how to evaluate progesterone and steroid use to address prematurity. Nancy Griffith, from the Colorado Hospital Association, will be discussing a grant that they received to address prematurity in Colorado. The
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment will also be presenting current prematurity statistics throughout our state.
Dr. Jay Iams will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Jay Iams is an Emeritus Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. After receiving BA and MD degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he completed a rotating internship at the University of New Mexico and a year of pediatric residency in Phoenix before moving to Ohio State in 1975 to train in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal fetal medicine with Dr. Frederick Zuspan. His clinical and research interest is prevention of prematurity. He is the Principal Investigator at Ohio State for the NICHD
Maternal Fetal Medicine and Nullipara Research Networks, and is the Obstetrical Lead for the Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative. Dr. Iams is an Associate Editor of the
American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and an editor of the 5th , 6th & 7th editions of Creasy & Resnik’s Maternal Fetal Medicine textbook. He served on the
Maternal Fetal Medicine Division of the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology from 2001-07. He was president of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine in 2003-04, and of the American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society in 2013. He was a member of the National March of Dimes Scientific Advisory Committee on Prematurity from
2002 -2012, and served on the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine
Committee on Preterm Birth in 2005-06. Dr. Iams received lifetime achievement awards from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and from the Society for
Maternal Fetal Medicine.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jay Iams
Ohio Perinatal Quality
Collaborative
How to Build a
Successful State
Collaborative –
Lessons from
The Ohio
Perinatal Quality
Collaborative
The Problem of
Prematurity
Progesterone and steroid use to address prematurity
COLORADO
PERINATAL CARE
COUNCIL
MARCH MEETING
March 20, 2015
9am – 12pm
Medical Center of Aurora