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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS MEDICAL CENTER

NIDCAP TRAINING CENTER

UPCOMING EVENTS:

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR 6.25 CME CREDITS, 6.5 INA nursing contact hours, 6.25 Early Intervention hours, and 6.25 IOTA contact credits, CERPS are pending!!

JULY 13, 2010

Optimizing Infant Neural Regulation:The Practice and Science of Skin-to-Skin Care

Nils Bergman, MD, MPH University of Cape Town, South Africa
Heidelise Als, PhD  Brigham Women and Children’s Hospital, Harvard University
Stephen Porges, PhD  University of Illinois at Chicago, Brain-Body Institute

Rosemont Hotel  7:00 am - 5:00 pm                                          

Registration Fee: $160 ; Early registration: (by May 28, 2010) $140

The NIDCAP Training Center at UIMC along with the Departments of Occupatonal Therapy, Women and Children’s Services, Pediatrics and Obstetrics is pleased to present a clinically practical, evidence-based, one-day seminar for physicians, nurses, psychologist, lactation consultants and therapists in the use of skin-to-skin care (kangaroo care) with term and preterm infants. 

The University of Illinois Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Illinois Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on
Accreditation.

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians

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DOWNLOAD CONFERENCE BROCHURE HERE!

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DOWNLOAD PROGRAM HANDOUTS HERE!

Heidi Als: Trading the Womb for the NICU

Steve Porges: Early Development of the Autonomic Nervous System

Steve Porges: Bibliography

Nils Bergman: Perinatal Neuroscience, Restoring the Original Paradigm

Nils Bergman: A Neurological Approach to Breastfeeding

Heidi Als: Change in the NICU