NICUs & Nemeses: A Dungeons & Dragons-inspired Quest for Mother’s Own Milk

Monday, April 28, 2025

2:00pm – 3:30pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 304

CE: 1.5

Leader(s)

Joanie Randle, MSN, MSHS (she/her/hers)

CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Center for Perinatal Research, Division of Neonatology Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Joanie Randle, MSN, MSHS (she/her/hers)

CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Center for Perinatal Research, Division of Neonatology Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Claire Eden, BA, IBCLC (she/her/hers)

Program Director
Georgia Chapter AAP
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Christine Garner, PhD, RD, CLC (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Amarillo, Texas, United States
Michelle-Marie Peña, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Health Equity Medical Director
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
EM

Eliza Myers, MD

Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Disclosure(s):

Joanie Randle, MSN, MSHS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Claire Eden, BA, IBCLC: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Christine D. Garner, PhD, RD, CLC: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Eli Zettler, n/a: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Michelle-Marie Peña, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Eliza H. Myers, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop Description: Combine the worlds of medicine and fantasy in a gamified learning experience framing NICU lactation support within a Dungeons & Dragons- inspired adventure. Explore novel strategies to overcome obstacles in your quest to optimize provision of Mother's Own Milk (MOM) in a NICU setting. This interactive problem-solving workshop will use the power of storytelling to examine barriers that impede milk provision and strategies to disrupt the current system. Move collaborative breastfeeding support from fantasy to reality by embarking on a quest to navigate the Lactation Labyrinth and discover novel and achievable lactation care strategies.  This workshop will give participants a fun and memorable learning experience, enhance knowledge of lactation physiology, identify gaps and barriers to care, improve breastfeeding support skills, and strengthen team-based approaches to lactation care. *No experience with Dungeons & Dragons is needed to play and learn from this high-yield, practical workshop.

Learning Objectives:

Identify the physiologic, social and structural barriers to provision of mother’s own milk (MOM) to infants in the NICU
Recognize the roles that parents, clinical team members, and other stakeholders play in the provision of MOM to NICU infants
Develop/design interventions and implementation strategies that promote provision of MOM to infants in the NICU