National Advocates for Pregnant Women and New York University present...

Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts Have to Say Part II

Thursday, April 29, 2010
New York City

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Presenters at Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts in Medicine, Social Work and Law Have to Say include:

Deborah Frank, M.D., is the Founder and Director of the Grow Clinic at Boston Medical Center, and Principal Investigator of the Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program ("C-SNAP"). C-SNAP's goal is to monitor the impact of policy changes on nutrition, growth and development of low-income children, ages 0-3 years. She also conducts research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has given testimony to the United States and Massachusetts House and Senate. Dr. Frank has written numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles and papers including, Deborah A. Frank et al., Maternal Cocaine Use: Impact on Child Health and Development, 40 ADVANCES IN PEDIATRICS 65 (1993) and Deborah A. Frank et al., Growth, Development and Behavior in Early Childhood Following Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: A Systematic Review, 285 JAMA 1613 (2001). Dr. Frank has also served on numerous committees and advisory boards and has received many awards recognizing her dedication and advocacy for children in need. Dr. Frank has been a Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine since 1981 and received her M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

A video of Dr. Frank's Presentation at the conference is available now online!

Oklahoma health advocacy groups and organizations, including The National Association of Social Workers, Oklahoma Chapter; Gender and Women's Studies at Oklahoma State University; and The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oklahoma Chapter are sponsoring an educational forum on November 10 in Oklahoma City, called:

Experts Discuss Responses That Work: A Continued Conversation on Pregnancy, Parenting and Drug Use

(Read more details by clicking on red headline.)

On Wednesday, June 14, 2006, the New York Academy of Medicine invites you to attend: Seeking the Perfect Baby through Cesarean Delivery: What's at Stake? at The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York City. Participating on a panel with distinguished doctors and bioethicists, NAPW Executive Director, Lynn Paltrow will address the question "Do Women Lose Their Civil Rights Upon Becoming Pregnant?"

NAPW is proud to be a co-sponsor of the 2006th National Harm Reduction Conference. Please join us there!

http://www.harmreduction.org/6national/abstracts.html

NAPW is proud to have co-sponsored and participated in the 2004 March for Women's Lives. For examples of the range of reasons and marchers who joined us, please read the commentaries of four people who marched with us. Their stories appear as a special insert to NAPW's 2004 annual report.

NAPW marchers dressed as pregnant women to make the point that laws designed to restrict access to abortion in fact often hurt women and families who want to have babies. We also had children join us to make clear that the debate about abortion in this country is deliberately manipulated to keep us from focusing on a fundamental lack of commitment to America's children. There are ten million children without health insurance, more than 20 million living in poverty, and we have an educational system that leaves more and more low and middle income children behind. We marched to say that families deserve to be supported!