

Semi- Annual Meeting
Preliminary Agenda
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Location: Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
123 Metro Blvd, Nutley, NJ 07110
8:00am - 9:00am
Registration/ Breakfast/ Visit Exhibits
9:00am- 9:15am
Welcome & Introductions from NJOGS
President Dr. Donald Chervenak &
Vice President Dr. Chloe Phillips
• Introduction of NJOGS, ACOG & AWHONN Officers
9:15am – 10:15 am
TeamBirth NJ: Transforming Communication in Maternal Health Care
• Christine Ivery, MPH, CHES
Program Officer, New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute
10:15am – 10:45am
Break/Visit Exhibits/Resident Poster Session
10:45am – 12:00pm
Legal and Legislative Reports/Guest Speaker
• John Fanburg, Esq.
• Laurie Clark
• To be announced
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Presentation on AI
• (Speaker & Title To be announced)
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Lunch/Visit Exhibits/ Resident Poster Session
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Trauma Informed Care in Birth: For Patients & Providers
• Kara Kushnir, LCSW, PMH-C
Training & Partnerships Manager for PSI-NJ's HFNJ Project
2:45pm – 3:15pm
Title to Be Announced
• Joseph J Apuzzio MD
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Professor and Vice Chair Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Health
Director Maternal Fetal Medicine
Professor Radiology
3:15pm – 3:30pm
Award Presentation: Poster Presenters
&
Closing Remarks
3:30pm
Adjournment
*Agenda Subject to Change