Conferences
Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers & Babies (TCHMB) Summit
Register now for the 2020 Texas Collaborative for Healthy Mothers and Babies (TCHMB) Summit. This year’s Summit theme is “Making Quality Improvement Local.”
The goal of the Summit, which is the annual conference of Texas’s perinatal quality collaborative, is to provide Texas clinicians, hospitals, advocates and other stakeholders an opportunity to learn about issues and initiatives related to the health of mothers and babies.
February 27-28, 2020 AT&T Executive Conference Center 1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705 Austin, Texas 78705
Agenda
This year’s Summit features an impressive slate of presentations and breakout sessions from a state and national leaders in maternal infant health, including Dr. Myra Wyckoff on neonatal resuscitation, Dr. Larry Shields on the Maternal Early Warning Systems (MEWS), and Barbara O’Brien, RN, on implementing the AIM hypertension bundle as Director of the Oklahoma Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative. For more, download the full agenda, which will be updated as the schedule is confirmed.
Keynote Speaker
Michael C. Lu MD, MS, MPH, is the Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
A graduate of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, he has decades of expertise as a professor of public health as well as obstetrics and gynecology, a proven track record of academic and national executive leadership, and a deep-rooted passion for health equity and social justice. Dr. Lu worked as a professor and senior associate dean for academic, student and faculty affairs at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University. He also served as the director of the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) in the Obama Administration. Dr. Lu is best known for his research on racial-ethnic disparities in birth outcomes, and his leadership in developing, testing, and translating a unified theory on the origins of maternal and child health disparities based on the life course perspective.
Registration rates (ends January 31)
General Admission: $190 State Agency/Non Profit: $100 Student: $65