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UBC Midwifery welcomes Dr. Shawn Walker, RM, PhD, as the 2020 Visiting Scholar
Dr. Walker is an internationally known lecturer on support of vaginal breech birth with more than 15 publications related to breech birth. Dr. Walker is currently a lecturer at King’s College London, the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing. Dr. Walker will present workshops in Victoria and Vancouver along with two public lectures in Vancouver.
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Global Health Trainee Grant
Due by: January 31, 2020 at midnight, PST The Centre for International Child Health and the Medical Staff Association of BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital are working together to support trainees in health professions who are engaged in global health with clinical activities related to the health care of neonates, children, adolescents, or women. Funding…
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Congratulations to Dr. Saraswathi Vedam on the acceptance of her thesis “Moving from Interprofessional Disarticulation to Transformative Dialogue and Action…”
Congratulations to Dr. Saraswathi Vedam on the acceptance of her thesis “Moving from Interprofessional Disarticulation to Transformative Dialogue and Action: Examining a Transdisciplinary Process to Address Equitable Access to High Quality Maternity Care in North America” by the University of Sydney, Australia, toward the award of her Doctorate in Philosophy. The thesis brought together the…
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Class of 2022 Victoria cohort celebrates the end of Term 1!
Photo from Left to Right; Olivia Vihant, Annie Passmore, Raven Fawkes, Tay Ferrier, Katia Haslam, Jennifer Jackson, Julie Bowser, (Valerie Simmons – Island Lead), Melissa (Devi) Garner
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Call for Expressions of Interest in Teaching
The UBC Midwifery Program is looking to build our pool of Clinical Faculty who are interested in teaching in the Undergraduate or Internationally Educated Midwives’ Bridging Programs.
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2019 UBC Midwifery Alumni and Preceptor Reception
The 2019 UBC Midwifery Alumni and Preceptor Reception was held at the Halifax Westin Hotel during the Canadian Association of Midwives Conference. Fifteen alumni, clinical faculty members and midwifery faculty attended the reunion. Although most UBC Midwifery alumni still work in BC, many are rural and remote making the annual CAM conference a special reunion.…
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UBC Midwifery welcomes Dana L. Solomon, PhD, KT Researcher, to the BirthPlace Lab
Dana Solomon has both an MA and PhD in interdisciplinary studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between entertainment and ideology and the ways in which entertainment can be used to facilitate communication about complex problems. Her research interests include ideologies of genocide and international conflict, knowledge translation, and the impact of bias within the…
