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Videoconference on ‘National Prematurity Campaign’ on Monday; 2 UNC sites to participate

CHAPEL HILL -- Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sites will participate in a videoconference, "The National Prematurity Campaign: A Call to Action," 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday (March 17) featuring a leading expert in the field.

The event, free to participants, is geared especially to health-care practitioners. Sponsor is the N.C. chapter of the March of Dimes, and co-hosts are the UNC Center for Maternal and Infant Health in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. The UNC campus sites are room 103 of Berryhill Hall (not an interactive site) and Mayes Teleconference Center on the second floor of Rosenau Hall.

Dr. Karla Damus will lead the videoconference, whose purpose is to solicit feedback from health-care providers on strategies they think are helpful to address the problem of prematurity.

She is associate professor and director of community programs in the department of obstetrics and gynecology and women’s health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also is director of epidemiology in the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center’s department of obstetrics and gynecology.

Damus is the senior research associate in the Office of the Medical Director at the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation’s national office.

National and state prematurity outcome and risk factor trends, research findings and practitioner resources will be among the subjects discussed.

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