5^th World Congress on Midwifery & Womens Health October 01-02, 2018 Frankfurt, Germany

Julia Sanders has combined teaching, research and midwifery practice for over 25 years and has extensive experience in the design and delivery of complex research studies into maternity care. Her current methodologies include randomised trials and the use of routine health data to answer research questions. Julia is currently leading the UKs largest study comparing outcomes for mothers and babies following waterbirth and birth on land and has an interest in developing further work around maternal weight gain in pregnancy.

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Sarah Chitongo is a Nurse and Midwife with 16 years of experience in all areas of Midwifery. She is also an experienced Senior Manager who left the National Health Service (NHS) as a Deputy Head of Midwifery. She has set up a High Dependency Unit (HDU) on a delivery suite. The aim of the HDU was to offer women and their families a consistently high level of individual, medical, and psychological care, delivered by staff who understood the physiology, pathology, psychological and cultural needs of BME obstetric groups and the wider community. There was initial anxiety on the part of midwives around the mechanization of care, but competence and confidence was developed through an informal structure that she developed. She is an ambitious manager who has built a reputation developing and motivating staff. The management style focuses on three main things; innovation, quality and staff. She has excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire confidence and build strong stakeholder relationships to ensure that the curriculum is at the forefront of knowledge and reflects the latest research insights and materials. Further roles within current position include generating and presenting annual management review reports as well as providing consultancy for academics within the department in relation to midwifery education.

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Elinor Jenkins has started her Midwifery career at Isle of Wight in 1999. She moved to New Zealand to work on a case loading midwifery post for three years in 2003. On her return to UK in 2007, she joined Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, where she worked for eight years as a Staff Midwife. During this time, she became Supervisor of Midwives and Research Midwife. In 2016, she has completed her Clinical Doctorate. In 2015, she took the combined post of Clinical Lead for Research and Research Manager at Isle of Wight for two years. In 2017, she returned to Clinical Midwifery and began Postdoctoral development as a Clinical Researcher. Her research into labial suturing began in 2010, when she realised that there was a significant lack of evidence for this type of genital trauma and women were not receiving evidence based care. She conducted an audit of labial suturing in 2011 and went on to gain funding for further research in 2017.

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Soheyl Asadsangabi has completed her DNP as a Midwife at Vanderbilt University. She has been practicing midwifery since 2004 in private and academic settings. As a woman from another culture and a clinician who provides care for a diverse population, her focus is on cross cultural women’s health care. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

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Loredana Zordan is an Acupuncturist and a Midwife. She is teaching nationally and internationally by conducting workshop for midwives on the use of acupressure for pregnancy and birth. Since the introduction of the workshop in Italy “Acupressure for pregnancy and birth” many hospitals are introducing acupressure to facilitate labor induction and pain relieve in labor. This allows midwives to expand their role, becoming more complete and independent practitioner, acupressure being drug free and therefore not having harmful teratogenic effect, provides a much safer and satisfying childbirth experience as well as facilitating a more natural and less medicalized childbirth.

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Faezeh Safari is a Senior Midwife at Kings College London-Guys and St. Thomas Hospital, NHS Trust, London since 2003. She is currently practicing as a Community and Birth Centre Midwife. She has completed her BSc in Midwifery at Survey University in Iran in 1999. She has completed her MSc in Advancing Womens Health Care at Kings College London University which led her to research and publication on womens experience of de-infibulation in the UK. She is a Member of the Royal College of Midwifery in the United Kingdom. She also worked as a Research Midwife in the Department of Maternal and Fetal Research Unit at Kings College London. She is a strong advocate of midwives and natural childbirth. She is a mentor and sign off mentor for clinical practice of student midwives.

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