Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Neonatology

Neurology

The Science of Rehabilitation in High-Risk Infants

Chair(s)

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  Terrie Inder, MBChB, MD (she/her/hers)

  Director, Center for Newborn Research
  Childrens Hospital of Orange County
  Orange, California, United States

  Slides
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  Carmina Erdei, MD (she/her/hers)

  Director, Growth and Development Unit
  Pediatric Newborn Medicine
  Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  Slides

Session

Description: The Science of Rehabilitation in High-Risk Infants

Currently selected infants are identified as “high-risk” for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including the preterm infant and the term infant with brain injury. These infants experience a diversity of rehabilitative and “early intervention” strategies ranging from intensive therapy in the neonatal intensive care unit through childhood to a minimum of such interventions. There is a growing science regarding the opportunity for targeted strategies to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes in high-risk infant populations related to the nature and timing of their injury and the related rehabilitative strategy. This symposium aims to address current gaps in knowledge by informing the audience of the current state of understanding of neurobiological and therapy-based approaches to improving outcomes in high-risk infants.

Chairs: Drs. Terrie Inder and Carmina Erdei

1. Introduction to the Current State of the Science and Gaps in Knowledge – Dr. Terrie Inder, Children’s Hospital of Orange County, University of Irvine, CA (10 mins)
2. The Neurobiological Basis for Neonatal Rehabilitative Strategies – Dr. Vittorio Gallo, Childrens National, Washington, DC (15 mins)
3. Rehabilitative Strategies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for High-risk Preterm Infants – Dr. Carmina Erdei, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA (15 mins)
4. Early Sensory Systems and Implications for Motor Rehabilitation Over the First Year of Life - Dr. Nathalie Maitre, Emory, Atlanta, GE (15 mins)
5. Rehabilitative Approaches Throughout Early Childhood – What We Know and How to Guide Us? Dr. Alicia Spittle, Melbourne, Australia (15 mins)

Discussion: 20 mins

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:10 AM ET

  Introduction to the Current State of the Science and Gaps in Knowledge
  

  Speaker: Terrie E. Inder, MBChB, MD (she/her/hers) – Childrens Hospital of Orange County
• 8:10 AM – 8:25 AM ET

  The Neurobiological Basis for Neonatal Rehabilitative Strategies
  

  Speaker: Vittorio Gallo, PhD (he/him/his) – Seattle Children's Hospital
• 8:25 AM – 8:40 AM ET

  Rehabilitative Strategies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for High-risk Preterm Infants
  

  Speaker: Carmina Erdei, MD (she/her/hers) – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• 8:40 AM – 8:55 AM ET

  Early Sensory Systems and Implications for Motor Rehabilitation Over the First Year of Life
  

  Speaker: Nathalie L. Maitre, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• 8:55 AM – 9:10 AM ET

  Rehabilitative Approaches Throughout Early Childhood – What We Know and How to Guide Us?
  

  Speaker: Alicia Spittle, Phd (she/her/hers) – University of melbourne