about WiSSP

Catherine A Reiser, M.S.

Video Update
The five part videotape series Life and Death Before Birth -- Evaluation of the Stillborn, funded by the Perinatal Foundation of Wisconsin, is ready for distribution. Many of you should have already received your set, and others of you will receive them soon. We are quite pleased with the finished product and hope that these videos will be useful inservice tools.

The User's Manual includes evaluation forms and pre/post test questionnaires that will allow us to monitor the use and effectiveness of the videotapes. We look forward to your comments.

If you are not from a WiSSP participating hospital and therefore will not automatically receive a copy of the videotape set, an order form is included in this issue (p. 11).

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RSVP?
In the first issue of WiSSPers we introduced you to the various 'departments' that you could expect to find in future issues, including one titled 'RSVP'. This section was intended as a place to share readers' comments, suggestions, opinions and thoughts. You may have noticed RSVP has yet to appear in any issue. This is not due to ruthless editing, but rather we have not heard from any of you.

What about it? Anything you'd like to say or let us know about? Any questions you'd like us to answer? Any changes you'd like us to consider, or opinions to express? We're waiting!

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Research Collaboration
We are collaborating with Dr. Les Biesecker from the Center for Human Genome Research, NIH, on a project to help identify causes of stillbirth in cases where the etiology of multiple defects is currently unknown. Read more about this exciting project on pp. 10- 11.