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When it comes to nutrition for a newborn baby, most experts agree that human milk is the best option – but how can you ensure that your child is getting enough of it? CT Style Host Natasha Lubczenko recently spoke with Dr. Eliza Myers, Neonatology Director, Bridgeport Hospital.
- March 02, 2023Source: New Haven Register
One of the many hard lessons learned from the infant formula shortage crisis of 2022 is that we need more diverse options for safely feeding our babies. There is no one right option for every parent or baby. We need support for breastfeeding when families can and choose that option, stable and safely regulated formula, and access to screened and pasteurized human donor milk from regulated nonprofit milk banks for babies who require donor milk to grow and thrive.
- January 29, 2023Source: romper
It’s not a topic you can ignore; books are here to help. YCSC faculty member Amanda Lowell comments.
- January 26, 2023
“The man. The myth. The bowtie.” When auctioneer Jaideep Talwalkar, MD, associate professor of internal medicine (general medicine) and assistant dean for education, called out these words at Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM) 29th Annual Hunger & Homelessness (H&H) Charity Auction on the evening of January 19, it led to a bidding frenzy from the crowd gathered in the school’s Café Med.
- January 26, 2023Source: Yale Daily News
Eliza Myers’s app idea earned her the Innovator Award from the YNHHS Center for Health Care Innovation. Now, the app is ensuring increased human milk access for newborn babies — and, for parents, newfound agency in the breastfeeding process.
- January 05, 2023
Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR has been named section chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine for Yale’s Department of Pediatrics and New Haven Children's Hospital effective January 3, 2023. Dr. Taylor is a Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine) and the Director of Neonatal Clinical Research.
- October 27, 2022Source: Yale Medicine
Practicing only inside hospitals, these physicians are growing in numbers.
- October 26, 2022Source: YaleMedicine.org
Practicing only inside hospitals, these physicians are growing in numbers.
- August 19, 2022Source: YNHHS
TrackMyMilk (Eliza Myers, MD; Laura DeFrancesco; Michelle DeWitt; Rick Meskill; Chas Cota; Trevor Young): EMR integrated mobile app to support human milk supply and management of up to 1,500 lactating parents annually. It will reduce substantial surgical and bedside costs related to donor milk use, hospital complications, length of stay, and readmissions while materially impacting the quality of care.
- July 22, 2022
Fourteen fellows have completed the Fellows as Medical Educators (FAME) certificate course for the 2021 – 2022 academic year.