COMMUNITY AND FAMILY HEALTH SPOTLIGHT
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The Maternal and Child Health Student Organization (MCHSO) is pleased to present its 2nd Annual MCH Symposium scheduled for March 3 and 4, 2011 from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm in the Marshall Center at USF.
This year’s symposium is called Great Expectations: Improving Perinatal Mental Health, and we will be exploring mental health issues from pregnancy, labor, and childbirth, through breastfeeding, and early infant attachment and development. We have an exciting line-up of distinguished speakers from USF and beyond, as well as a poster session which will represent student research in the area of perinatal health. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, is a health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and a specialist in mind-body medicine. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas and is author of more than 280 journal articles, book chapters and other publications, and author or editor of 20 books in the fields of trauma, women’s health, depression, and breastfeeding, including Depression in New Mothers, 2nd Edition (2010, Taylor & Francis), The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010, American Psychological Assn), Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Depression in New Mothers (2008, Hale Publishing), and Breastfeeding Made Simple, (co-authored with Nancy Mohrbacher).
The symposium is open and FREE to USF students, faculty, and staff, as well as community members. Please visit our Web site for information on how to register. We hope you will join us! This event is listed on MCHSO's website under "events": http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/student_organizations/mchso/index.htm
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