EMBRACE Center of Excellence - Healthy Start Symposium May 29-30 2025

May 29, 2025 to May 30, 2025

Target Audience

Physicians

Nurses

Social Workers

 

Learning Objectives

May 29

  • Apply systems-shifting dialogue
  • Examine community-rooted pathways towards postpartum health equity
  • Analyze topics discussed in educational breakout session, poster presentations, and a keynote presentation

May 30

  • Define health, reproductive health, and reproductive justice
  • Evaluate cultural competency and cultural humility
  •  Discuss reproductive justice
  • Determine how intersectionality influences social determinants of health
  • How individuals and systems can use policy and advocacy to improve patient outcomes
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 ASWB
  • 6.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
05/29/2025
Course expires: 
12/26/2025
Event starts: 
05/29/2025 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
05/30/2025 - 3:45pm EDT

Healthy Start Symposium, Thursday May 29

  • Keynote with Q&A (9:10-10:00) 
  • Poster Gallery Walk and Networking (12:30-1:00)
  • Breakout Sessions 1 (10:15-11:15)
  • Breakout Sessions 2 (1:00-2:00)
  • Breakout Sessions 3 (2:10-3:00)
  • Closing Remarks and Evaluations (3:00-3:30)

 

EMBRACE Summit, Friday May 30

  • Reproductive Justice Training Presentation (1:30-2:15)  
  • Reproductive Justice Training Simulations (2:20- 2:50)
  • Panel (2:50-3:20)
  • End grounding session (3:20-3:30)
  • Wrap Up and Evaluations (3:30-3:45) 

Disclaimer Statement

The information presented at this CME program represents the views and opinions of the individual presenters, and does not constitute the opinion or endorsement of, or promotion by, the UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences, UPMC / University of Pittsburgh Medical Center or Affiliates and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Reasonable efforts have been taken intending for educational subject matter to be presented in a balanced, unbiased fashion and in compliance with regulatory requirements. However, each program attendee must always use his/her own personal and professional judgment when considering further application of this information, particularly as it may relate to patient diagnostic or treatment decisions including, without limitation, FDA-approved uses and any off-label uses.

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Disclosure Statement: No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

 

Accreditation and credit designation

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)

 The University of Pittsburgh School designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Nursing (CNE)

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 6.0 contact hours.

 

Social Work (ASWB) 

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 6.0 continuing education credits. 

 

Other Healthcare Professionals

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 6.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 6.00 ASWB
  • 6.00 Attendance
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