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Amanda Farris

Assoc Professor Term

School of Medicine

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  • Assoc Professor Term
    School of Medicine
  • (502) 852 - 8470 (Work)
  • University of Louisville School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Medicine, 571 South Floyd Street Suite 342, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202, USA

TEACHING & MENTORING

Lectures
2021 Norton Children’s Hospital ECMO Education Conference Speaker Long Term Follow-up of Neonatal ECMO
2021 - present NGAPP (New Grad Advanced Practice Provider) Program, GI anomalies
2019 Cardiovascular RN Orientation, Care of the Neonate with Congenital Heart Disease
2017 – present Resident didactics during NICU rotations (Norton Children’s Hospital NICU and University of Louisville Hospital NICU, for residents and

     students)

Lecture topics include:

neonatal encephalopathy

necrotizing enterocolitis

intraventricular hemorrhage and post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus

ventilation of the neonate

NAVA

follow-up of the high-risk neonate

congenital heart disease

infant of the diabetic mother

congenital GI anomalies

ECMO

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

2017 – present Lectures within the Division of Neonatology

Board review series (neonatal fellows)

Morbidity Conferences (for faculty, fellows, APPs, residents, and students)

Intubation Safety
Therapeutic Hypothermia

PICC Line Malpositioning

Journal Clubs (for faculty, fellows, NPs, residents, and students

Joint OB/NICU Conferences (For OB/MFM faculty, residents, students and NICU faculty and fellows)

Fetal Board – Vascular Rings
Journal Club – Judicious Use of Oxygen in Neonatal Resuscitation

2020 – 2023 Faculty Mentor – Humanism and Compassion in Medicine Course University of Louisville School of Medicine
2014 – 2020 Faculty Mentor – Interdisciplinary Clinical Cases Course University of Louisville School of Medicine

 

Other Education Experience
2024 – present Teaching Proficiency Workgroup – National Fellows’ Curriculum Development
2023 – present Norton Children’s Hospital Transport Team – Skills Days

Umbilical Line Placement Station

Neonatal Intubation Station

2021 – present Annual Critical Care ECMO Fellow Bootcamp Co-leader
2020 – 2024 Neonatal Morbidity and Mortality Conference Lead
2020 – present Weekly Neonatal Division Education Conference Series Lead
2017 – present University of Louisville Pediatric Resident Procedure Rotation

Umbilical Line Placement Skills