ABOUT DR. TERRI
Dr. Terri Major-Kincade is a double board-certified Neonatologist and Pediatrician who specializes in the care or premature infants and their families. She is an expert in Neonatal Palliative Care, Racial Health Disparities around Birth and Maternal Health Outcomes, Follow-Up of High-Risk Infants and Physician-Parent Communication.
As the Chair for the Steering Committee for African American Outreach for the Texas Chapter of March of Dimes, Dr. Terri has facilitated local, state and national campaigns designed to maximize community partnerships for better birth outcomes. She additionally serves on the National Board of the Perinatal Loss and Infant Death Alliance and Return to Zero where she discusses strategies for cultural sensitivity to better support families experiencing neonatal loss.
Dr Major-Kincade is known for her exceptional care of babies and families and her ability to translate complex topics with humor, compassion and urgency. She is a sought after physician, speaker, and two time best-selling author in the area of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Work-Life Balance
Full Circle Moments:
What 20 Years in Neonatology
Taught Me About Life, Love & Loss
In Full Circle Moments: What 20 Years in Neonatology Taught Me About Life, Love & Loss, Dr. Terri Lynn Major-Kincade invites us to join her on a roller-coaster ride through a fascinating world of magic, miracles, plastic boxes, blessings, and burdens-the world of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
In a montage of interwoven stories and poignant examples, Dr. Terri explains how she helps tiny human beings in plastic boxes say both “hello” and “goodbye” to their parents, and how she helps to empower the families of those infants to make difficult, seemingly impossible, decisions.
In a heartfelt tribute, she tenderly thanks the preemies, her tiny patients, for helping her to discover the power of the human spirit, to experience moments where the art of medicine supersedes the science of medicine, and to be reminded that, even if it only lasts for a few weeks or days, all life is precious.
P Is For Preemie
CARE WITH COMPASSION
Dr Terri—My promise…We begin and end with Hope.
In the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery, I meet families every day, who were not planning to meet me. Families trying to find hope in a sea of darkness, an unexpected storm. I meet staff every day looking for tools to help families manage difficult choices and to help them find the light for their own journeys as caregivers. My gift is helping families and staff navigate the chaos that is the ICU nursery through the Gift of Pause for informed decision making. My promise is that we begin and end with Hope. No matter what I will leave you with light for the journey.
THE DR. TERRI DIFFERENCE
Chief of Hope … that’s me!!. Did you know that Terri means to reap or gather? My purpose in life is to help parents of premature infants and health care providers caring for those families navigate a very stressful journey in the NICU. How do I do that you might ask? Through authentic, transparent conversations which facilitate informed consent and light for the journey. The Gift of Hope. I help to ease the stress of NICU parents and empower colleagues for difficult conversations through my books, talks, blogs, direct patient care and upcoming podcast. Hope can be provided in many ways I endeavor to the find the path that’s perfect for you!
Dr. Terri looks forward to continuing to grow her skills in this area when she begins her Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Summer 2021 at Texas Childrens Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine. During this time Dr. Terri will limit her speaking engagments and her neonatal medicine practice until August 2022.
TESTIMONIALS
THE ITTY BITTY PODCAST WITH DR. TERRI
COMING SOON August 2024
Dr. Terri is the Founder and CEO of the ITTY BITTY PODCAST Show, an honest, informative, unique and intimate lens into Life Before the NICU, Life During the NICU and Life After the NICU for families of fragile infants in the ICU nursery and the people who care for them. As a guest or sponsor of The Itty Bitty Podcast Show with Dr. Terri, our special friends will have an opportunity to share their perspectives with Parents, Health Care Professionals, and Corporate Entities who have a vested interest in this very special population.