Eugene Declercq, PhD, MBA, MS
Dr. Declercq's discussion of Birth by the Numbers and report Listening Mothers II are powerful tools and tell us about the possibility of changing the standard of practice to match scientfic evidence and the increased health benefits to mothers, babies and families of doing so. For more on Dr. Declercq's writing, please click here.
Eugene Declercq, PhD is Professor of Community Health Sciences and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). He also serves on the faculty of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to study policy and practice related to cesarean section in the US and has served as lead author of three national reports of women’s experiences in childbirth and in the postpartum period entitled Listening to Mothers I & II and New Mothers Speak Out. He was a technical advisor on the documentary The Business of Being Born and was a recipient of the Norman Scotch Award for outstanding teaching at BUSPH
Nicholas Fogelson, MD
Nicholas Fogelson, MD, academic OB/GYN physician and creator of the blog and podcast "Academic OB/GYN". Dr Fogelson will speak about his experiences using social media and the Internet to present evidenced-based information to audiences both inside and outside of medicine, including recent efforts to change practices on immediate cord clamping and VBAC.
Dr. Fogelson's residency as an OB/GYN was from 2001 - 2005. He was Assistant Professor/Director of Family Planning at the University of Hawai'i Dept of OB/GYN from 2005-2008 and is now Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina Dept of OB/GYN as well as in current private practice as an OB/GYN and Family Planning. Currently he has a great deal of expertise and interest in surgical and medical termination of pregnancy, as well as in general gynecology and obstetrics. He is experienced with advanced vaginal and laparoscopic surgery, and has used most of the advanced tools currently on the market. He has an interest in the ergonomics and design of these tools, and many ideas on how these could be improved.
Panel of Local Nurse Managers
Nurse managers from local area hospitals will discuss the challenges and possibilities of affecting change on the labor and delivery floor. Can standard of practice become evidence-based on the labor and delivery floor?
Barbara Hotelling, MSN, WHNP-BC, CD(DONA), LCCE
What will you do once you get back to the classroom or the labor and delivery floor? Barbara will help us distill the information from the day into teaching tools and techniques for helping our class participants and patients create change from the outside in.
Barbara has been an active birth doula and Lamaze educator for over 25 years. She maintains her certifications with DONA International and Lamaze International, is on the Lamaze Faculty and is an approved DONA Doula Trainer. In addition to teaching Lamaze seminars for training childbirth educators and doula trainings, she has taught Labor Support for Nurses, Labor Support and the Teen Specialist programs of Lamaze throughout the United States , Canada, and in Korea. Barbara has served as President of DONA International, Chair of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) and President of Lamaze International. Presently she serves on the Certification Council of Lamaze International and the Leadership Team of CIMS. Please visit Barbara's Birth and Parenting Educators website to see more of her fine work.