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POSTER PRESENTATIONS
2024
DIRECTORY:
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2024 Poster Presentations

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics:
An Innovated Model of Care the Combines
Somatic Trauma Resolution, Midwifery and the Baby's Experience

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  • Lesha Nelson, OTR, CST, IPPD

  • Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST, CEIM, PPNE, PLC

Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs

Del Pozzo

Implementation of the Distress Thermometer in the Perinatal Period

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  • Nathan A. Keller, MD

  • Kristen Demertzis, PhD

  • Alejandro Alvarez, MPH

  • Luis A. Bracero, MD

Northwell Health

Hines

Integrating Mental Health Services into a High-Risk Infant Follow-Up Program

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Indiana University School of Medicine

Acceptability and Usability of a Family Guidance Tool in the NICU

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Children’s Mercy Hospital and University of Missouri Kansas City

Gladdis

Importance of Patient-Provider Racial Minority Concordance in Postpartum Depression Screening

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Meredith College

Prevatt
Matticks
Drury

Early Joint Attention Skills as a Predictor of Language Outcomes in a Very Preterm Sample

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Wayne State University

Sozen

Naltrexone Use and Positive Outcomes in Treating Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

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The Cherry Blossom Family: Evaluating the Impact of a Bereavement and Lactation Support Program for Grieving Mothers after a Perinatal Loss

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  • Ruth Hammer, MSN, RN, IBCLC

  • Brooke Sanchez, MSN, CNL, CPLC, RNC- OB

  • Lisa M Stellwagen, MD

  • Krishelle Marc-Aurele, MD

University of California - San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital
University of California Health Milk Bank

Capossela
Stanton

Implementing Trauma-Informed Care Initiatives in a Level IV NICU

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  • Kathleen Stanton, PhD

  • Erica Ortiz, MD, IBCLC

  • Elizabeth Wallace, BCC

  • Armida Dominguez, RN

  • Cheryl Kifer, BSN, RN

  • Alex Zavala

  • Katie Scott, LMSW

  • Holly Paulos, BSN, RNC-NIC

  • Monica Olsen, CCLS

  • Christine Tester, MHPS

  • Molly Pont, MD

  • Lisa Boyars, MD

  • Melissa Jecker, BSN, RN

The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School, Department of Pediatrics - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Coltson

Considerations for Removing Barriers to Peri-postpartum Screening Initiatives in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Groups Within Medical Settings 

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Inova Women’s and Children’s Hospital & Women’s Behavioral Health

Trauma-Informed Group Therapy for Parents in the NICU

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  • Corinna Klein, PhD  (she/her)

  • Sierra Kuzava, PhD  (she/her)

  • Karolina Grotkowski, PhD  (she/her/ona)

  • Alyssa Morris, PhD  (she/her)

  • Alyssa Palmer, PhD  (she/her)

  • Agustina Bertone, PhD  (she/her/ella)

  • Catherine Mogil, PsyD  (she/her)

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
David Geffen School of Medicine

Klein
Poe

The Grief-Sensitive Healthcare Project: An Innovative Approach to Compassionate Care for Perinatal Grief and Loss

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Stanford School of Medicine

Reed

Supporting Couples in the NICU: Interventions for Couples Therapy

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  • Karolina Grotkowski Reed, PhD  (she/her/ona)

  • Corinna Klein, PhD  (she/her)

  • Alyssa Palmer, PhD  (she/her)

  • Alyssa Morris, PhD  (she/her)

  • Sierra Kuzava, PhD  (she/her)

  • Agustina Bertone, PhD  (she/her/ella)

  • Catherine Mogil, PsyD  (she/her)

UCLA Family Development Program

Kelleher

Improving Family Engagement and Reducing Disparities Through Telehealth in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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  • Jessalyn Kelleher, PsyD

  • Danielle Cooke, PhD

  • Alei Santisteban, MPH

  • Jack Dempsey, PhD

  • Kendra Huber

  • Allison Dempsey, PhD

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Cordes
Runyon

Perinatal Trauma-Informed Care Education Associated with Decreased Nurse Secondary Traumatic Stress

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  • Maggie C. Runyon (she/her), MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, CYT-200

  • Mandy N. Irby, BSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, LCC, NSI-L1 

  • Paula Rojas Landivar, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM

Your BIRTH Partners
The Birth Nurse
 

Desai

Addressing Collaboration Barriers Associated with Doula Care: The Promotion of Social Justice in a Maternity Unit

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Ascension Seton
The University of Texas at Austin

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Bonacquisti

Sleep, Emotional Distress, and Psychological Flexibility among Postpartum Women

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  • Emily C. Woodworth, BA

  • Ryanne Schaad, MS

  • Alexa Bonacquisti, PhD, PMH-C  (she/her)

  • Victoria A. Grunberg, PhD

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine 

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Landscape of Institutional Barriers and Facilitators to Psychological Services in the NICU

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  • Melissa Scala, MD

  • Celeste H. Poe, PhD, PMH-C

  • Elizabeth C. Loi, PhD

  • Daphne Darmawan, MD, MBS

  • Richard J. Shaw, MD

  • Pamela A. Geller, PhD

  • Chavis Patterson, PhD

Stanford School of Medicine 

Strengthening Community and Support from NICU to Home for Black and Latino Families: A Community-Based Participatory Research Pilot 

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  • Tova Kruss, BS

  • Zayna M. Bakizada, MD

  • Oluwadamilola Sosanya, BS

  • Julianna Mazziotti, BS

  • Zenette McCoy, BS

  • Susanne Klawetter, PhD, LCSW

  • Devlynne S. Ondusko, MD 

OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital 

Kruss

Navigating Birth Trauma: A Scoping Review on Childbirth-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Early Relational Health in the Family

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  • Sharon Ettinger, MA

  • Nicholas Powers, MA

  • Tara Ramamurthy

  • Divine Thomas

  • Katelyn Phan

  • Pamela A. Geller, PhD

Ettinger

Building a Model of Care for Prolonged Antepartum Admissions in a Birth Hospital: Provisioning Care through a Trauma-Informed Lens

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University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Cooke

Implementing a Breastfeeding Protocol to Increase the Rate of Breastfeeding in the Black Population

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Purdue Global School of Nursing

Zita Iwuoha
Sodowick

“We Feel It Too:” A Qualitative Examination of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Coping Strategies in NICU Nurses

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Drexel University

Loi

Infant and Parent Therapy Services in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Funding Source Type Predicts Robustness of Mental Health Services while Current Rehabilitation Services Staffing Exceeds Minimum Recommended Standard

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Stanford University School of Medicine

Hunter

Role of Integrated Health Psychologists in Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Ob-GYNs: Responding in Times of Moral Distress

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University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Phan

Weaving Connections: Drexel NPASS Helps Unravel Stress in the NICU

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  • Caroline Hayes, BA

  • Chavis Patterson, PhD

  • Pamela A. Geller, PhD

Drexel University
National Perinatal Association Student Society (NPASS)

Ulibas

Somatosensory Experience to Facilitate Healing Trauma
for Perinatal Parents

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Co-Creating EmBRACE - A Mobile Health Solution to Improve Mental Health Screening and Support for NICU Parents: Preliminary Findings

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  • Yi Cui, MS

  • Tony Ma, MS 

  • Katie Chang, MS

  • Chavis A. Patterson, PhD

Drexel University
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Benten Technologies

Geller
Carerra

Care Model to Minimize Trauma for Perinatal Individuals with Disabilities

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Examining the Toll: A Scoping Review of Psychological Distress in NICU Providers

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  • Pamela A. Geller, PhD

  • Andrea L. Nelson, PhD

  • Leah B. Sodowick, MS

  • Hisham Nsier, BA

  • Melissa Maye, PhD

  • Shannon Hanson, PhD, MPH

  • Sage N. Saxton, PsyD

  • Miller Shivers, PhD

  • Rochelle Steinwurtzel, PsyD

  • Melissa Anderson, PhD

  • Chavis Patterson, PhD

National Network of NICU Psychologists (NNNP)

Hayes Geller

Untangling the Connection:
A Literature Review Examining Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
as Risk Factor for Perinatal Depression (PND)

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Drexel University

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