Protecting New Hoosiers and their Parents

#25
Tuesday, November 22, 2022 
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As many instances of infant and maternal mortality are preventable, rates of death need mitigating not only because of the tragic loss to families, but because these deaths also impact the US and state economies. What are the most effective – and cost-effective – ways to reduce mortality? What factors can be addressed to change the impacts maternal and infant mortality have on Hoosier families?

Family Impact Seminars share recent evidence and useful policy strategies in a nonpartisan setting to allow open dialogue to find common ground on policy and programs that affect Hoosier families for the upcoming legislative session.

Research, materials, policies, or statements of any kind developed by or communicated in association with the “Center for Families” or the “Family Impact Seminars” are not the official policies or positions of Purdue University and should not be characterized as such.

Opening Remarks

Lindsay Weaver, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer, Indiana Department of Health

Dr. Weaver joined the department of health as chief medical officer in 2020. She brings to the role a passion for both emergency medicine and end-of-life care. She is an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and practices emergency medicine at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She is board certified in both emergency medicine, and hospice and palliative care medicine.

Dr. Weaver graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She received residency training in emergency medicine and fellowship training in hospice and palliative medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. She also served as executive director for the Indiana Patient Preference Coalition and as president of the Indiana Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians.

Understanding Social Determinants of Infant and Maternal Mortality in Indiana

Jack E. Turman, Jr., PhD
Professor, Interim Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, IUPUI

Dr. Jack Turman, Jr., has dedicated his career to building community-based participatory programs to improve maternal and child health outcomes. He received his Ph.D. at UCLA conducting neuroscience research, completed a fellowship at the UCLA Medical School in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and then went on to serve as a faculty member for 15 years at the University of Southern California, where he ran the perinatal neuroscience research laboratory and directed the Center for Premature Infant Health and Development.
After UCLA, he became a program director at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he founded and directed The Connections Project, a community-based program to improve birth and infant development outcomes in Omaha’s African American community. Dr. Turman then came to Indiana State University where he served three years as the Dean of the College of Health and Human Services, where he was also a fellow in the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. He led programming to address poor birth outcomes in the Wabash Valley and then led the team that created the smartphone application, Mom 101, to promote preconception, prenatal and postpartum health.

Reducing Infant Mortality through Cradle Cincinnati

James M. Greenberg, MD
Co-Director, Perinatal Institute; Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
Co-Director, Science of Light Center; Lead Physician Executive, Critical Care Building/Master Planning
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Dr. James Greenberg serves as Co-Director of the Perinatal Institute at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, leading one of the largest comprehensive clinical and academic programs for newborn care in the United States. He has been an active faculty clinician, researcher, leader, and teacher at Cincinnati Children’s for over 30 years. He also serves as Lead Physician Executive overseeing construction of the Cincinnati Children’s Critical Care Building, and recently co-founded the Cincinnati Children’s Science of Light Center.
His current research interests include neonatal epidemiology, prevention of preterm birth, and the environment of care in the NICU. His current work seeks to understand how variables, such as race and place of residence, translate into biomedical events such as preterm birth, and understand how environmental variables such as ambient light affect NICU outcomes. He has authored over 80 original research articles, and 12 textbook chapters.

2022 SEMINAR LEGISLATIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

2022 Indiana Consortium of Family Organizations

The Indiana Family Impact Seminars provide objective, high-quality research on family issues to (a) build greater respect for and use of research in policy decisions; (b) encourage policymakers to examine policies and programs through the lens of family impacts; and (c) provide neutral, nonpartisan opportunities for legislators to engage in open dialogue for fostering relationships and fi­nding common ground.