DE Section Maternal Health Awareness Day

Schedule

Conference Agenda: Saturday, January 23, 2021

• 9:00-9:15 a.m.

  Welcome

  Vanita Jain, M0, FACOGD
  Vice Chair, DE Section ACOG
  Managing partner, Delaware Center for Maternal and Fetal Medicine of Christiana Care

  Garrett Colmorgen, MD, FACOG
  Medical Director, Delaware Perinatal Quality Cooperative 
  President, Delaware Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline

• 9:15-9:55 a.m.

  Mindfulness Lecture

  Diane J. Abatemarco, PhD, MSW
  Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Pediatrics Director of Maternal Addiction Treatment, Education and Research (MATER); Thomas Jefferson

• 9:55-10:55 a.m.

  Recorded Webinar

  Introduction: Nancy Fan, MD, FACOG
  Chair, DE Section ACOG
  Women to Women OB/GYN, Saint Francis Healthcare

  Joia Adele Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG
  Founder & President, National Birth Equity Collaborative
  Advisory Committee Member, Black Mamas Matter Alliance

• 10:55-11:10 a.m.

  Break
• 11:10-11:45 a.m.

  Live Roundtable Discussion

  Councilwoman Shané Darby
  Black Mothers in Power;  2nd District Council Member, Wilmington

  Representative Melissa Minor-Brown (D)
  District 17: New Castle

  Representative Sherry Dorsey Walker (D)
  District 3: Wilmington

  Senator S. Elizabeth Lockman (D)
  District 3: Wilmington, Newport

  Senator Nicole Poore (D)
  Senate Majority Leader
  District 12:  New Castle and Bear, Delaware City, south of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal

  Moderator: Margaret Chou, MD, FACOG
  Secretary, DE Section ACOG
  Medical Director (Obstetrics) of the Nemours & ChristianaCare Advanced Delivery Program

• 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

  Legislative Forum

  Federal Delegation

  US Senator Tom Carper (D)
  US Senator Chris Coons (D)
  US Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (D)

  State Delegation

  Senator Bryan Townsend (D) 
  Senate Majority Whip 
  District 11: Newark, Bear
  Representative David Bentz (D) 
  District 18: Bear
  Senator Marie Pinkney (D) 
  District 13: South Wilmington, Wilmington Manor, Bear
  Senator Sarah McBride (D)
  Chair, Senate Health & Social Services Committee
  District 1:  Claymont, Bellefonte, Edgemoor, Wilmington

  Facilitator: Vanita Jain, MD, FACOG

• 12:15 p.m.

  Closing

  Nancy Fan, MD