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This session explores how AI and digital innovation can help NICUs improve communication, surface meaningful insights earlier, reduce burden on care teams, and better support babies and families—while keeping human connection at the center of care.
🗓️ Friday at 1 PM EST
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Dr. Goswami and Dr. Garfinkle will review the mission and vision of the EPIQ Brain Health Subgroup, focusing on some of the most recent completed and planned initiatives.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This presentation explores how postpartum mental health and cultural expectations shape parent presence in the NICU, particularly for South Asian mothers.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This talk will review the state of skin-to-skin care (SSC) in Canadian NICUs and the ongoing work to develop and implement SSC national recommendations.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This presentation will highlight the work of the Canadian EPIQ-CNN Gut Health Group over the past year and outline key priorities for the year ahead.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This session focuses on the early identification of cerebral palsy (CP) in babies born preterm and on how coordinated, pan-Canadian efforts have changed how early developmental differences are recognized and supported.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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In this talk, we will discuss updates on antenatal steroids and umbilical cord milking.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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The Research-to-Care Outcomes Series for preterm babies - Episode 2 - The Family Voice in Quality Improvement: CPBF’s Parent-Partner Network and EPIQ
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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The Research-to-Care Outcomes Series for preterm babies
E1 - Protecting Preemies: Preventing Infections and Using Antibiotics Wisely
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This weeks talk: "Holding on in the NICU: Small Practices for Hard Moments "
This conversation will explore how we can pause, orient ourselves, and identify what truly helps in moments of uncertainty and stress.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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Save the date, our first webinar of 2026 has officially been scheduled! This event is free and open to all, join our membership to register: stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
In this talk we will highlight the voices of Black parents navigating NICU and beyond. This talk will offer insight for designing equitable and inclusive care and support programs for Black parents and families of preterm infants.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This talk will include a brief review of brain injury and brain development in preterm babies and ways in which we can promote brain development.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EST
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This week's chat:
Tiny Babies, Big Connections: How Developmental Care Supports Your Baby
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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Register now for a special edition of Preemie Chats in honour of WPD—1pm EST - FRIDAY!
www.cpbf-fbpc.org/wpd-live-events
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgDpHK6ndbY
Dr. Georg Schmölzer will share the incredible story of surfactant—a life-saving substance that helps tiny lungs open and stay open.
This session explores What the Fetus Eats: Placental Transport and Nutrition in Pregnancy
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
📍 Where: Facebook | X | YouTube
In this special edition of the Preemie Chats, we will talk about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). It is a common illness in young children, but not all families are affected equally.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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In this session, Dr. Eugene Ng will discuss what parents need to know about the revised Canadian Paediatric Society guideline for managing term and late preterm babies with jaundice.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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📣 Webinar Alert – Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of hospitalization in infants.
Join us for an important conversation on inequities in RSV policies across Canada.
🗓️ October 21
👉 Register here: cpbf-fbpc.org/rsv-webinar #RSVAwareness #CPBF #ProtectPreemies #HealthEquity
In this interactive session, Kristy Wolfe shares her family’s medical journey and invites participants into a conversation about the power of storytelling to support families, amplify lived experience, and foster meaningful conversations with healthcare providers
🗓️ Friday at 1 PM EDT
📍 YouTube
In this session we will discuss how the purple butterfly impacts and supports families during their grief, after loosing one of their twins or triplets. The purple butterfly is a symbol of remembrance and allows the families the opportunity to feel their baby is remembered.
Friday -1 PM EDT
Youtube
Shira Karpel will talk about the Preschool Life Skills program developed by Dr. Hanley, a research-based teaching approach designed to help young children develop essential social, communication, and self-regulation skills positively and proactively.
🗓️ Friday at 1 PM EDT
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In this presentation, Peter Swinnen will introduce us to Cokoen, an association he founded seven years ago, in Belgium, for young adults like him who started their lives in an incubator.
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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This presentation will discuss "Managing uncertainty in perinatal medicine and palliative care"
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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Last chance for Early Bird tickets for the Little Lights, Big Hearts Gala until Aug 31. Join us on November 6 for a night of love, resilience & community as we honour preemies & their families. Don’t miss it, prices go up soon! 💜 Get tickets: www.cpbf-fbpc.org/little-lights-big-hearts-gala
This presentation will discuss the importance of mental health care provided by an embedded NICU Psychologist, the impact on NICU parents’ overall wellbeing, the relationship between the parent and infant, and the infant’s overall development.
🗓️ Friday at 1 PM EDT
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Join us for an important conversation that will explore the deep cultural, spiritual, and practical significance of breastfeeding in First Nations communities, what many refer to as Indigenous milk medicine.
Topic: Indigenous Milk Medicine
🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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Gigi Khonyongwa-Fernandes will discuss her first, and recently launched book: “From Rollercoasters to Carousels - An Emotional Support Guide to Healing for NICU, Bereaved, and Special Needs Parents”. 🗓️ When: Friday at 1 PM EDT
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