Monday, August 26, 2013

TODAY: Support for a Mother with Disabilities to Parent - WEBCAST - Aug 26, 2013

Support for a Mother with Disabilities to Parent
Monday, August 26, 2013
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.EST

Women with Disabilities Webcast Series:
Presented Jointly by Magee-Womens Hospital and the UPMC Disabilities Resource Center

Promoting sensitivity and awareness toward issues that woman with disabilities face in dealing with the health care system; and to educate providers, women with disabilities, caregivers and advocacy groups of available services and resources.

Continuing medical education and nursing contact hours will be provided. Featured speakers include physicians Glenn Updike, Peter Bulova, and Stephen Corey. Robyn Powell will represent the National Council on Disability in a discussion on a new report Rocking the Cradle.


Upcoming Event:

Support for a Mother with Disabilities to Parent
Monday, August 26, 2013
3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

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Support for a Mother with Disabilities to Parent

The realities of families with disabilities to parent and resources to support their role and rights as parents will be presented in the 4th webcast moderated by Jane Breck, MD from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Representing the National Council on Disability, Robyn Powell, BSW, JD, will talk about the new Rocking the Cradle Report. Discussing the role of the pediatrician in working with families a case study will feature Amanda Feathers who parents with a mobility disorder. The community resources panel will include Shona Eakin from the Independent Living Center in Erie, PA and Megan Kirshbaum from Through the Looking Glass. 



Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. All faculty and contributors in a position to control content for a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine sponsored activity are expected to disclose all relevant financial relationships during the past 12 months with entities producing marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. Relationships of immediate family members with proprietary entities producing health care goods or services should be disclosed if they are of a nature that may influence the objectivity of the individual in a position to control the content of the continuing educational activity. No faculty for this web cast has any disclosures 


Funding
Funding for this activity was made possible in part by the HHS Office on Women�s Health. The views expressed in written materials or publications and by speakers at HHS sponsored conferences, do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. 

Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC thanks the UPMC Health Plan and the HHS Office on Women�s Health for their support for this web cast series.

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