Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the roles of the members of the health care team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.
2. Define manifestation of syphilis.
3. Describe Treatment and follow up of syphilis.
4. Review the signs/symptoms of congenital syphilis in the neonate.
5. Discuss initial workup and treatment of infants born to syphilis positive mothers.
6. Review long-term outcomes and monitoring for infants with confirmed/suspected congenital syphilis.

Faculty

Shiva Niakan, DO
OB/GYN Resident
Baystate Medical Center 

Molly Cain, MD
Pediatric Resident
Baystate Medical Center

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.