March of Dimes Prematurity Prevention Symposium

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The March of Dimes, in collaboration with the American College of Nurse-Midwives, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is organizing a Prematurity Prevention Symposium scheduled to take place on January 19-20, 2012, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC.

The Symposium will provide a forum to share and review lessons learned from various collaboratives, prematurity prevention efforts and intervention programs. This Symposium will also launch the Prematurity Prevention Network where those interested in the health of women and infants can continue the discussions started at the Symposium, to share ideas and help each other address the important problem of prematurity.

For more information visit www.marchofdimes.com/symposium or email symposium@marchofdimes.com