Just a few Black docs welcoming in the babies of Boston! 👶🏽 #RepresentationMatters Boston Medical Center @TheBCRP

#Viewpoint suggests that pediatricians’ contact with the maternal-infant dyad postpartum presents an opportunity to address the US maternal mortality crisis and its inequities. ja.ma/3HOF8aT

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/…

In this JAMA #Viewpoint, researchers, including Children's Hospital Drs. Emily Gregory and Heather Burris argue that a multidisciplinary approach to postpartum care and interpregnancy care is critical. Policymakers, payers, and citizens all have a role to play. Read more⤵️

“Pediatricians’ contact with the birthing parent–infant dyad presents our health care system with an opportunity to address the US maternal mortality crisis & its inequities.” Bravo to my friends #KristanScott #EmilyGregory Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH⁩ #neotwitter jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Our AMP Family with Dr. Kevin Churchwell for our Visiting Professor Lecture! ✨✨ instagram.com/p/CsFZNe2OWXg/…

In a JAMA Viewpoint, Kristan Scott, MD, Emily Gregory & Heather H. Burris, MD, MPH (Children's Hospital/ Penn Medicine) write that pediatricians’ contact with families postpartum presents an opportunity to address the US maternal mortality crisis & its inequities bit.ly/41qqPju

Meet Dr. Kristan Scott, MD, a neonatology fellow at CHOP! instagram.com/p/CtuhPHYu5iR/…

Study found significant prevalence of 3 forms of stigmatizing language in resident nightly verbal handoff & associations with patient demographic characteristics, such as negative stereotype with Black race & blame with obesity. ja.ma/45ooPe7 Vicky Parente #WordsMatter

Penn Surgery at the Pathways to Excellence Med Immersion Day. The event is one of a series hosted by AMP UPHS CHOP to help provide local underrepresented in medicine (URiM) medical students tools to succeed in academic medicine. The program is funded by a grant from Independence Blue Cross.

🔬 Join us at the ESPR Early Career Investigator Prize Session now at #EAPS2024! Kicking off with Kristan Scott presenting “Postpartum Care Receipt Among Parents of Preterm Infants Admitted to the NICU” 👶🏥 🕘 09:00 - 10:15 📍 Hall F & online #Paediatrics #NeonatalCare #NICU

Welcome Kristian Scott on the stage of #EAPS

Congrats to current scholar Kristan who received the Society for Pediatric Research Exchange Award at the 2024 Pediatric Academic Societies conference! He gave an excellent presentation at the EAPS Congress highlighting disparities in postpartum care for parents of hospitalized preterm infants.

A multifaceted approach will be critical to increasing URiM representation in NPM and ultimately improving health outcomes for neonates. Journal of Perinatology New pub: nature.com/articles/s4137…

Here's a cute pic of us at our NCSP board meeting last week as a reminder to VOTE today 🗳️ We are casting our votes for democracy and health equity, and we hope you are too. #BattlegroundState #AdvocacyinAction #PoliticalDeterminantsofHealth