NYMAC
(New York-Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Genetics and Newborn Screening Services)

Newborn Screening Standardization Work Group

Vision: Ensure that all newborns receive screening for all recommended analytes and conditions; that infants who screen positive receive appropriate clinical evaluation and diagnosis; that infants who diagnose positive are entered into appropriated clinical management; and that the state newborn screening program is able to ensure that the child receives appropriate care over the short-term to diagnosis and over the long-term through adulthood.

Goal 1: Standardize the clinical evaluation and laboratory analyses, including reimbursement, necessary to achieve confirmation of a diagnosis.

Goal 2: Develop screening criteria for premature and sick infants, including timing of initial screening and subsequent samples and follow-up of screen-positive results.

Goal 3: Develop guidelines to deal with the issue of infants who are identified as carriers as a by-product of screening.

Chair: David Kronn, MD

Coordinator: Bonnie Fredrick

• Membership
• Meetings & Conference Calls:
• Next Meeting:
  Summer 2008
• Next Conference Call:
  None scheduled at this time.
• Past Meeting:
  November 10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA
• Past Conference Calls:
  May 29, 2008
  March 31, 2008
  February 12, 2008
• Documents

For more information pertaining to this Work Group and its activities, please contact the Coordinator.