The Role of Prenatal Experience and Infant Sleep in the Development of Early Childhood Executive Function

In this seminar, Cathi Propper, PhD, will focus on early predictors of cognitive outcomes in preschool age children. Specifically, prenatal experience such as stress, inflammation, and nutrition play a critical role in shaping childhood developmental trajectories and they differ by sociodemographic status. Prenatal experience may also influence infant sleep across the first year of life, which may act as a mediator of the relationship between prenatal experience and cognitive outcomes.

Propper will present the results of a pilot study that examined these links in African American families and will provide details about an innovative naturalistic observation of infant sleep in the home that may help explain associations.

The Inclusive Science Program (ISP) focuses on increasing the inclusion of populations that have been historically underrepresented in clinical and translational research. The ISP Spring Seminar Series highlights research with a focus on diverse representation.

Presenter
Cathi Propper, PhD
Advanced Research Scientist
Director, Developmental Biobehavioral Core
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
UNC-Chapel Hill

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Adam Lee from NC TraCS and Stephanie Deen from UNC Health will be presenting on EPIC Updates and Health Informatics. They will provide an overview and success stories of using myUNCchart (myChart) for patient recruitment, review Epic@UNC security and feature updates and enhancements, and provide an overview and use cases for Best Practice Advisories within Epic for research studies.

Attendance at this event is pending approval for 1 contact hour of clinical research education on applications for Maintenance of ACRP's CCRC®, CCRA®, CPI® or ACRP-CP® certification designations

Presenters: Adam Lee (NC TraCS) and Stephanie Deen (UNC Health)

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Join Carolina Health Informatics Program’s (CHIP) virtual Analytics and Machine-Learning in Maternal-Health Intervention (AMMI) conference. The AMMI conference will provide a unique and much needed platform for multi-disciplinary researchers from maternal health, machine learning, informatics, and medical imaging on topics related to prenatal health. Through this event, CHIP aims to promote health equity in maternal and child health. This innovative virtual symposium will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, student poster sessions, and networking opportunities with the leading industry and academic researchers in machine learning and maternal health.

Headlining Speakers

Sarahn Wheeler, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Janice Huckaby, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Maternal-Child Health, for UnitedHealthcare/Optum Population Health Solutions

Herbert Peterson, MD
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, UNC Chapel Hill
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UNC Chapel Hill
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Research Evidence for Sexual and Reproductive Health

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This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons - 4/14, 4/15, 4/16 ) offered by the Odum Institute. Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to perform basic statistical procedures and regression models in Stata.

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