As of Nov. 1st, the Reach Out & Read Colorado team has a new home. Come see us!

📍1355 S Colorado Blvd, Suite 108, Denver, CO 80222

*To donate books to our new office, email [email protected] to schedule a drop-off.

The UIC team is bigger than the backdrop! ⁦UICneonatologyfellowship⁩ #ILPQC

Susan Hwang talks to a packed #ILPQC house about equity focused approaches to improving safe infant sleep during birth hospitalization. SMARTIE aims incorporate Inclusion and Equity from the outset! ⁦AAP Neonatal⁩ ⁦Women In Neonatology⁩

Despite decades of attention and focus, disparities remain in preventing sudden unexpected infant deaths, or SUID. In this #ChartingPediatrics episode, experts from Children's Hospital Colorado clear the air on the latest recommendations for #SafeSleep guidelines. childrenscolorado.org/health-profess…

Skin to skin therapy is one of the NICU’s most evidence-based practices but is too often seen as “optional, nice” rather than “essential, neuroprotective.” All infants in our care should have equitable access. Must address: parental leave, racism, culture of families as partners.

Maternal mortality is not solely the responsibility of obstetric providers. As pediatricians and neonatologists, we have a role to play. ⁦Children's Hospital⁩ NICU fellow, Dr. Kristan Scott, points out that we see postpartum patients all the time. ⁦ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

#WomenNeo Happy Hour Reception!
Thank you, Rick Skaar !!

@PASmeeting
#PAS2023 + #PAS23selfie

Advocating for online protections for kids and teens with fellow Academic Peds Assoc #HealthPolicy Scholars and Dr. David Keller in Washington Lois Lee, MD, MPH Shetal Shah Deanna Behrens, MD (she/her)
Anita Shah, DO MPH Marina Masciale
Emily Miller MD MS FAAP Susan Hwang Children’s Colorado Research and Innovation Children's Hospital Colorado CU Pediatrics

The AAP named Joseph L. Wright, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, its new chief health equity officer. Dr. Wright will oversee national strategies to promote & achieve health equity for all children & advance equity, diversity & inclusion efforts within American Academy of Pediatrics publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/2…

Join us on May 15 for a presentation on draft guiding principles for preventing or mitigating healthcare #algorithm -related biases that affect racial & ethnic minority populations that experience #HealthDisparities . Register to attend & provide feedback. bit.ly/3LBkMUL

So proud of mentee Genevieve Guyol, MD innovative work on the correlates of early relational health among infants born preterm! Watch as this rising star helps us understand the links between medical complexity, poverty, and school readiness. BIDMC Neonatology BCH Division of Newborn Medicine Meg Parker

Thank you to our speakers for facilitating the NJC workshop at Pediatric Academic Societies! Together, leaders in neonatal equity shared barriers they faced in advancing neonatal equity work and strategies they’ve adopted to overcome those barriers.
Neonatal Justice Collaborative

The ⁦NYU Langone Health⁩ crew reunited at #PAS2023 over ten years later

CU Anschutz Medical Campus Children’s Colorado Research and Innovation Children's Hospital Colorado #NICU fellow Michael Cookson’s work on pulmonary hypertension featured at #PAS2023 BPD symposium. Susan Hwang Kathleen Hannan james barry

Thrilled to hear Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD speak about racial disparities as they relate to #NICU respiratory outcomes at BPD symposium here at #PAS2023 . Highlighting challenges with EMR documented race/ethnicity categories. Susan Hwang Kathleen Hannan

Dr. Glaucomflecken Retro transport back to NICUs closer to home for infants who require specialty care at a children’s NICU. Families can be separated for months.

Today is the Spring CHoSEN Forum! Stay tuned as we hear from lived-experience experts and updates on work being done across the state to support substance-exposed newborns and their families in Colorado! #CHoSENForum

Prevention is key to reducing socioeconomic inequities in children’s mental health problems. Authors investigated the potential to reduce these inequities for children who are disadvantaged by improving parental mental health: bit.ly/3ZDY9Ts #Pediatrics

As a pediatrician and vaccinologist, I work with teams who develop new vaccines to save children's lives. It is heartbreaking that the most common cause of death for US kids is now #firearm . There will never be a vaccine for AR15s, we need laws for that. #ItsTheGuns