Maimonides Health presents symposium on preventing disease in newborns and mothers

September 23, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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BOROUGH PARK — PREVENTING DISEASE IN NEWBORNS AND THEIR MOTHERS was the topic of Maimonides Health’s 2nd annual Maternal and Neonatal Morbidity Reduction Symposium, taking place all day on Monday, Sept. 23, with NY State Department of Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald as the keynote speaker.

Morbidity is defined as the state of being unhealthy and the incidence and rate of diseases within a population. As part of the symposium, distinguished health officials were presenting seminars on a variety of topics related to maternal and infant health, such as birth equity, decreasing maternal morbidity, perinatal depression and nutrition.

The symposium’s printed agenda also included forums on Family-Centered Cesarean Births with medical professionals from NYC Health + Hospitals’ Woodhull Hospital; natural principles from Organic Birth to help reduce maternal morbidity; preventing brain injury in preterm infants, with Dr. Roger H. Soll, a professor of Neonatology at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, optimizing human milk in preterm infants and reducing race as a clinical algorithm.

A grant from the New York State Department Of Health and funding from The Regional Perinatal Center At Maimonides Health helped make the symposium possible.

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