UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh at CHNC 2024

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Department of Pediatrics will be well-represented at the Children's Hospital Neonatal Consortium happening October 28 to 30, 2024. Division of Newborn Medicine faculty and fellows will be in attendance and participating throughout the event.

Faculty and Fellow Listing at CHNC

Chelsea Bitler, DO
Graduate Medical Fellow
Newborn Medicine
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

John Ibrahim, MD, FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Director of Quality Improvement
Director of POCUS
Division of Newborn Medicine | University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Magee Women's Hospital
of Pittsburgh 

Burhan Mahmood, MD, FAAP
Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Medical Director, Neonatal ECMO Program | Medical Director,
CDH Program
Division of Newborn Medicine | University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Magee Womens Hospital
of Pittsburgh 

Brighid O’Donnell, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Attending Physician, Neonatology
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Teresa O’Malley, MSN, RN
Programmatic Nurse Specialist NICU
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Shayla Percy, MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Adriana Phillips, MD
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellow
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh 

Tuesday, October 29

10:45-12:15pm
WORKSHOP: Nuts and Bolts of Screening and Brief Intervention for PMADs in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Lisa Boyars, Elizabeth Fischer, Joanne Lagatta, Megan Lagoski, Teresa O'Malley, Miller Shivers, Lamia Soghier, Sarah Swenson 

4:30 - 4:40 PM 
Impact of a New Anti-Xa Based Neonatal ECMO Heparin Management Guideline on Therapeutic Anticoagulation and Clinical Outcomes: A Single-center Experience

Adriana Phillips 

4:40 - 4:50 PM 
ECMO Candidacy and Respiratory Management During ECLS in Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Variations in Practice Among Neonatal and Pediatric Intensivists

John Ibrahim, Burhan Mahmood

4:50 - 5:00 PM 
Development of an Advanced Neonatal Fellowship Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Competency Program: Five-year Experience

John Ibrahim, Burhan Mahmood 

4:40 - 4:50 PM 
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Plasmapheresis in Neonates Receiving Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support: A 10-year Single-center Experience

Burhan Mahmood

5:30 - 5:40 PM 
Reducing Metabolic Bone Disease of Prematurity in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Shayla Percy

Wednesday, October 30

8:00 – 9:00 AM 
WORKSHOP: If You Pass Boards, Collect $200!: What Games Teach Us About Learning
Deb Lathrop, Namrita Odackal, Brighid O'Donnell, Janice Raucci, Lamia Soghier, Elizabeth Wetzel, Mary Woodward, On behalf of the CHNC Educational Advisory Committee