Introduction

Methods

Case Definition

Stillbirths

Research Projects & Publication

Resources

6th Annual Meeting

October 16, 2009
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Bld 19, Auditorium A
 

Agenda

8:30 – 9:00

Registration

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome

Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH
Director, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)

9:15 – 9:30

Introduction

Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

9:30 – 10:15

Three Surveillance Case Studies: Autism, America’s Children, and the National Children’s Study

Duane Alexander, MD
Former Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

10:15 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:30

Birth Defects Surveillance: Then and Now

Adolfo Correa, MD, PhD
NCBDDD

11:30 – 12:15

Developmental Disabilities Surveillance

Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, MD
NCBDDD

12:15 – 12:45

Uniting Efforts:  The Interface of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Surveillance

Janet Cragan, MD, MPH
Kim Van Naarden Braun, PhD
NCBDDD

12:45 – 1:00

Song Interlude

Michelle Gilligan-Prichard
Founder, Mending Limbs
Country Music Singer

1:00 – 2:00

Lunch and Poster Session

2:00 – 2:30

Life-Long Consequences of Birth Defects:
Meeting Health Surveillance Needs Across the Lifespan

Amy Verstappen, MEd
President/CEO, Adult Congenital Heart Association

2:30 – 3:00

Informatics – Meeting Challenges of Public Health Surveillance in the 21st Century

Asha Krishnaswamy, MSc
NCBDDD

3:00 – 3:30

Birth Defects Surveillance and Prevention in the US: The Real and the Ideal

Russell Kirby, PhD, MS, FACE
University of South Florida

3:30 – 4:00

Parent Perspective

Nancy and Mike Buchieri

4:00 – 4:30

Future Plans for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities Surveillance

Coleen Boyle, PhD
NCBDDD

Pregnancy-Planning Education Program