Key Note Speakers and Abstracts - New Zealand College of Midwives

Conference Keynote Speakers

Sally Tracy

International Keynote Speaker

Sally

Sally graduated with the worlds first professional doctorate in midwifery from UTS in 2003 and has published over 50 papers in highly ranked international academic journals in her field. Sally was educated as a midwife in New Zealand and returned to her home country Australia in 1996, after being abroad for more than 25 years. She joined the ranks of academia on her return and has gained extensive experience as a midwifery leader in research. In 2003 she led the implementation and evaluation of the first caseload midwifery group practice to be funded within the public hospital system in Australia.

The Ryde Midwifery Group Practice remains one of the few free standing midwifery led units in Australia. Prior to her joining UTS as the Professor of Women’s Health Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, she spent three years at the National Perinatal Statistics Unit in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales as a post doctoral research fellow working with the Health Evaluation Research & Outcomes Network (HERON).

This year she was successful in obtaining a large Australian National Health and Medical Research Council grant to undertake a randomized controlled trial of caseload midwifery care. This study will contribute the first available controlled trial data on the effect of providing one to one midwifery care to women during childbirth. Establishing midwives in a position where they may practice the full scope of practice in the Australian Health System is the passion that drives Sally’s research.

Sally represents the Australian College of Midwives on the National Core Maternity Indicator Project funded by the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council; and the National Consensus Framework for Rural Maternity Services funded by the Australian Commonwealth Government.

Dr Joan Skinner

Ways of being, ways of working

Joan

Joan has been a practising midwife in New Zealand for 30 years. Over this time she has worked as a midwife across a wide variety of roles from midwifery co-ordinator in a tertiary unit to home birth practitioner, along with some consultancy work both in New Zealand and internationally.

Joan is currently a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Victoria University of Wellington.

Ruth De Souza

Midwives, migrant and refugee families: What kinds of partnership are possible?

Ruth

Ruth is a senior research fellow with a passionate interest in issues relating to migrants and refugees and their incorporation and engagement in a bicultural society. She is a researcher and educator with experience drawn from a background in mental health nursing, teaching and counseling.

Ruth is actively involved in community activities related to mental health and to migrants.

She is the co-ordinator of the Aotearoa Ethnic Network (AEN) and editor of the AEN Journal, a Councillor of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, board member of the Asia New Zealand Foundation, Deputy Chair of the West Auckland Living Skills Homes Trust Inc (WALSH Trust),Executive committee member of the Refugee Council of New Zealand and member of the International Marcé Society and the New Zealand Co- Coordinator for Postpartum Support International.

Ruth has also recently been appointed to the Editorial Boards of the Journal Diversity in Health and Social Care and the Journal of Transcultural Nursing.

Jackie Gunn

Joan Donley Memorial Address

Jackie

Jackie Gunn is Head of Midwifery at Auckland University of Technology. She has been a midwife for thirty years. Over 20 years in midwifery education, she has been involved in the development of direct entry degree level education and the establishment of post graduate programmes in midwifery. Other experience includes self employed (home and maternity unit) and tertiary unit midwifery practice.

Jackie is a foundation member of the New Zealand College of Midwives and currently national education consultant in NZCOM.

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