This mini-series will focus on emerging health threats facing pregnant women and infants.

The mini-series is part of our project, Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby: Strengthening Nurse Practitioner Education on Emerging Health Threats for Newborns and Infants.

In this podcast mini-series, our host and clinical advisor for this project, Dr. Jodiey Bondurant, will explore case examples of emerging infectious threats in the care of newborns and infants, through conversations with NAPNAP member experts. Dr. Bondurant currently works in a family birth center managing newborns. Her background is in pediatric emergency, inpatient, and urgent care settings. In her current PNP role, Dr. Bondurant has cared for infants with congenital syphilis, HSV, hepatitis B, early and late-onset sepsis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. She is the medical director for a pregnancy clinic and has helped develop their STI screening and treatment policies.

Our guest for this episode is Ashley Gyura, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner at Children’s Minnesota who currently works as an infectious disease specialist providing inpatient consultations on a variety of infectious concerns. Dr. Gyura has presented locally and nationally and is a contributing author for two book chapters on infectious disease laboratory testing. She also served as the clinical advisor for NAPNAP’s nurse practitioner education and knowledge assessment for Lyme disease initiative.

Join us for pediatric-focused conversations about congenital syphilis, perinatal hepatitis C, congenital CMV and more as we discuss these important threats to maternal and infant health.