Maternal SUD and NAS Summit: Advancing Efforts in Missouri

This event will focus on Missouri’s progress in treating maternal substance use disorders and neonatal abstinence syndrome/neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, while highlighting information and interventions on continued gaps and promising practices. Participants will have access to subject matter experts in the fields of maternal SUD and supporting care for infants with NAS/NOWS.

Physicians, maternal fetal medicine specialists, pediatricians, nurses, behavioral and mental health specialists, social workers, community health workers, addiction counselors, psychologists, peer recovery coaches, patients with lived experience, addiction researchers

8:45 a.m. | Registration Desk Opens & Light Breakfast Served, Resource Tables Open

9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks and Welcome

9:45 a.m. | Planning for Relapse and Overdose Risk in Pregnant Patients
Speaker: Niraj Chavan, M.D., MPH, FACOG, SSM WISH Center Medical Director, St. Louis University, Associate Professor, Div. of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Dept. of OBGYN

10:30 a.m. | Networking Break

10:50 a.m. | Learning Through Lived Experience Story with Cynthia Vann

11:15 a.m. | Distribution of Naloxone in Your Clinical Setting
Speaker: Rebecca Boedeker, DNP, RNC-MNN, IBCLC, C-ONQS, SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – St. Louis,  Advanced Clinical Nurse – Perinatal

Noon | Lunch and Networking Break

1 p.m. | Bridge Builders – How Peer Recovery Coaching Roles are Evolving to Serve Moms and Babies Affected by SUD
Facilitator: Shawn W. Billings, M.S., Vice President of Substance Use Programming, MHA
Panelists: Christina Haddok, Brittany Estes, Ashley Stanley, Jennifer Wolfe-Brown

1:45 p.m.  | Networking Break

2 p.m. | Learning Through Lived Experience Story with Kristin “Kri” Korte

2:25 p.m. | Implementing the Eat, Sleep, Console Model to Improve Care of the Mother-Baby Dyad Affected by SUD: Experience from a System-Wide Roll-Out
Speaker: Megan Fankhauser, R.N., BSN, IBCLC, Mercy Health, Sr. Quality Improvement Specialist and Lauren Fowler, MBA, CSSBB, CPHQ, Mercy Health, Executive Director – Quality & Safety

3:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks and Evaluation

3:30 p.m. | Adjourn