Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Neonatal Fellowship Program, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA
University of Louisville School of Medicine, USA
Lori Devlin, DO, MHA, MS is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She is a practicing neonatologist and the Director of the Neonatal Fellowship Program. Dr. Devlin received her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and Master of Health Care Administration degrees from Des Moines University. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Ohio University and her fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She also received a Master of Clinical Research from the University of Louisville. Dr. Devlin’s research focuses on perinatal drug exposure and neonatal abstinence syndrome/neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Talk Summary
Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS): Lessons Learned From the US Experience
- Review the etiology and severity of the opioid epidemic in the United States
- Review quality improvement (QI) work that has demonstrated improvement in outcomes for infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS)
- Discuss the integration of QI and traditional research approaches to evaluate generalizability of QI approaches