Tuesday, October 28, 2025

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM – Breakfast, Registration, Visit with Sponsors

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM – Welcome

• Led by Stephen Contag, MD (MNPQC Past Board Chair)

8:15 AM – 9:15 AM – Plenary

• Minnesota Maternal Mortality: Data and Recommendations from the first 5-year report (2017-2021)
  • Rachael McGraw DNP, RN | Minnesota Department of Health
  • Jennifer Almanza, DNP, APRN, CNM | Regions and Methodist Family Birth Centers

9:15 AM – 9:30 AM – Break, Visit with Sponsors & Poster Presentations

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM – Breakout Presentations 1

• 1A: Multidisciplinary Care for the Critically Ill Obstetric Patient
  • Laura Colicchia, MD | Allina Health/Minnesota Perinatal Physicians
  • Lisa Kirkland, MD | Allina Health
• 1B: Surviving & Thriving Together: Equipping Clinicians to Support Postpartum Couples
  • Elizebeth Adedokun, PhD, LMFT, PMH-C | Cedar Valley
  • Evon Inyang, M.A, LMFT | ForwardUs Counseling
• 1C: How to Talk About (and Prescribe) Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy: It Takes All of Us!
  • Lauren Graber, MD | Hennepin Healthcare

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM – Break, Visit with Sponsors & Poster Presentations

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM – Breakout Presentations 2

• 2A: Harm Reduction and Perinatal Care
  
  • Kari Rabie, MD | Native American Community Clinic
• 2B: Obstetric Hemorrhage: Recognition & Response Across Practice Settings
  • Rachel Pilliod, MD | Allina Health
• 2C: Doulas at the Frontline: Culture, Continuity, and Sustainability in Maternal Care
  • Mallory Cummings, MHA, RN, PHN | Aspirus St. Luke’s
  • Cinthia Rodriguez Navin, DNP | MHealth Fairview-Riverside
  • Marlys Weyandt | Hennepin Healthcare

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM – Lunch & Visit with Sponsors

12:45 pm – 1:45 pm Breakout Presentations 3 

• 3A: Maternal Mortality Prevention: How to Apply a Universal Education Approach to Prevent Violence During Pregnancy
  • Julia Tindell, MPH | Minnesota Department of Health
  • Erica Lester, MPH | Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers
  • Meme Cronin | Violence Free Minnesota
  • Dylan Daniels, RN | Indian Health Board of Minneapolis
  • Aimee Morago, MSW, LICSW | Indian Health Board of Minneapolis
• 3B: Naloxone Access & Integration for Perinatal Care
  
  • Meghan Walsh | Steve Rummler HOPE Network
  • Laura Palombi, PharmD, MPH, MAT | Essentia Health
• 3C: Coming Together to Improve Outcomes: Pasteurized Donor Human Milk (PDHM) and the Muslim Community
  • Leah Jordan, MD | Children’s Minnesota
  • Marcia Burton McCoy, MPH IBCLC | Minnesota Department of Health
  • Munira Maalimisaq, FNP-BC, DNP-c | Inspire Change Clinic

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM – Break, Visit with Sponsors & Poster Presentations

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM – Breakout Presentations 4

• 4A: Timely Treatment of Severe Range Blood Pressure in the Postpartum Period
  
  • Enid Rivera-Chiauzzi, MD | Mayo Clinic Rochester
  • Jennifer Thaler, APRN, AGCNS-BC, DNP | Mayo Clinic Rochester
• 4B: Screening for Substance Use in Pregnancy: What To Do and What Not To Do
  
  • Adrienne Richardson, MD | HealthPartners
  • Hannah Burton, MSW, LISW, JD | Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF)
• 4C: Breaking Barriers: Supporting Third Trimester Pregnant Women in Family-Centered Treatment Programs
  
  • Jessica Davison, MA, LPCC, LADC | Recovering Hope Treatment Center

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM – Break, Visit with Sponsors & Poster Presentations

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM – Closing Plenary

• Taking TeamBirth Across the U.S.: Shared-Decision Making in Minnesota
  
  • Amber Weiseth, DNP, MSN, RNC-OB | Ariadne Labs; Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
  • Leslie Carranza, MD | Mayo Clinic