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The 2023 Annual Meeting was dedicated to our friend and colleague, Dr. John Barton, whose life's work was dedicated to the health and safety of Kentucky families. He will be missed.
Dr. Barton completed his medical school and residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He completed a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at the University of Tennessee-Memphis under the direction of Dr. Baha Sibai in 1991. Since then, he has served as the Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Baptist Health Lexington in Lexington, Kentucky. He serves as voluntary faculty at the University of Kentucky. He is active in the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Foundation for SMFM. Dr. Barton served as a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Hypertension in Pregnancy Task Force and contributed to the National Partnership for Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle on Obstetric Hypertension. He has published over 250 articles and abstracts largely in his field of interest of hypertension in pregnancy and maternal medical complications of pregnancy.
The Mamatoto Village describes a community-based integrated care program focused on improving the health status and outcomes for black families in Washington, DC. The program has several important key components: case management, care coordination, patient empowerment, and culturally representative care. Additionally, the Mamatoto Village supports workforce development, education, and training for care providers, counselors, coordinators, and leaders from the community served. This reinforces the program sustainability and promotes community resiliency.
This presentation examines the intricate relationship between substance use disorder, mental health conditions, and intimate partner violence as contributing factors to maternal mortality and injury. Prevention strategies include the expansion of education and preparedness targeting the future health sciences, human services, law, and public health workforce and the formation of a maternal injury surveillance system database.
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) describes the constellation of signs and symptoms associated with intrauterine substance exposure. In Kentucky, NAS is a reportable condition that is analyzed and published annually. NAS data is used to dispatch resources and inform policy according to multifaceted prevention and harm reduction strategies.
This session includes segments with overlapping coverage of screening programs aimed at identifying mental health conditions and substance use disorder in patients presenting to labor and delivery departments and identifying health conditions in newborns.
