Newark, NJ – R. Remmey Bumsted,
IV, of Madison, NJ, was an active and seemingly healthy 23-year-old
when he suffered from Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) due to unsuspected
congenital heart disease in February, 2008. Hoping to help
save others from similar tragedy, Remmey’s family is now helping
to fund the “Saving Young Lives” Pediatric Education
Conference to be presented annually by the Saint Barnabas Health
Care System for New Jersey health care providers.
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Remmey Bumsted (right) is pictured
with his father, Roy Bumsted. Mr. Bumsted
is honoring his son's memory by helping
to further educate physicians throughout
New Jersey about the incidence of Pediatric
Sudden Cardiac Death and ways to diagnose
and prevent it. |
The first “Saving
Young Lives” conference will be held on Tuesday, March 23, from 6:00
-9:00 pm at Mayfair Farms in West Orange. A distinguished panel of nationally-recognized
specialists will discuss confronting Pediatric SCD, as well as the issues of
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and the potential for cardiac
complications with medications used in its treatment when there is undetected
congenital heart disease.
Included
among the speakers Saint Barnabas has scheduled are:
- Curt J. Daniels, MD, Director
of Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart
Disease Program at Nationwide Children’s
Hospital in Columbus, Ohio;
- Michael Landzberg, MD, Founder and Director of
the Boston Adult Congenital Heart and Pulmonary Hypertension Service
at Children’s Hospital of Boston; and
- David O. Childers, Jr., MD, Chief of Developmental
Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine in
Jacksonville, Florida.
“The complications contributing to our son’s death
could have been diagnosed and treated,” said Remmey’s
father, Roy R. Bumsted, III. “However, like many others,
his apparent good health masked the need for testing required to
make the diagnosis. Our mission with this conference series is to
honor our son’s memory by helping to further educate physicians
throughout New Jersey about the incidence of SCD and ways to diagnose
and prevent it.”
The program is intended for pediatricians,
pediatric cardiologists, pediatric neurologists,
developmental pediatricians, pediatric psychiatrists and family
practice physicians. In addition, pediatric nurses, school nurses
and all other health care providers who are involved in the care
of children and young adults would benefit.
“This is a united endeavor to confront the growing number of children
with congenital heart problems who become young adults and still need specialized
care,” says Mark J. Zucker, MD, JD, Director of the Heart Failure Treatment
and Transplant Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and one of two
adult cardiologists providing care at the Center for Adults with Congenital
Heart Disease at Newark Beth Israel.
“Saving Young Lives” is a joint effort of Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center, Children’s Hospital of NJ at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center,
the Saint Barnabas Medical Center’s Department of Pediatrics and The
Children’s Hospital of Monmouth Medical Center, all affiliates of the
Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
“It is appropriate that we target all physicians, nurses
and health care providers who are involved
in the care of children,” explains
Joshua Rosenblatt, MD, Chair, Department of
Pediatrics at Children’s
Hospital of NJ at Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center and the Medical Center’s Director
of Academic Affairs. “Our goal is to educate physicians and
other health care providers about the incidence
of SCD, how to detect it and strategies to prevent its occurrence.” The
program includes Continuing Medical Education for physicians, Nursing
Contact Hours and a buffet dinner. Details, including specific educational
objectives, can be found online at a dedicated
website established for the conference: www.barnabashealth.org/savingyounglives.
There is a $25 registration fee for the “Saving Young Lives” Pediatric
Education Conference, which is refundable upon
attendance or cancellation by March 22, 2010,
or registrants may opt to donate the fee to the Remmey Bumsted
Congenital Heart Disease Fund at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
This program
is being made possible by the generous support
from the family and friends of Remmey Bumsted. Please visit www.barnabashealth.org/savingyounglives to
register, or for more information, please call 973.926.8128.
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey's largest
integrated health care delivery system. The
System includes six acute-care facilities, more than 18,000 employees
(second largest private employer in the state), 4,600 physicians
(one-fourth of the state's practicing physicians) and 445 residents
and interns who provide treatment and services for more than two
million patients annually: 198,000 inpatients and same day surgery
patients, 200,000 pediatric patients, 452,000 Emergency Department
patients and over 1.5 million outpatients, and 18,300 births.
For more information about the Saint Barnabas
Health Care System, please call 1-888-SBHS-123 or log on to our
website, http://www.barnabashealth.org.
Date : February 22, 2010
CONTACT: Lisa Blumert
(973) 322-4921
