CAESAREAN BIRTH - Your Baby, Your Body, Your Life, Your Choice

An organisation dedicated to redressing the balance in caesarean research, communication, and maternity care

Caesarean Birth at Conferences

June 2022
Presentation of oral abstract at RCOG World Congress 2022 (London, UK, attended online)

January 2022
Presented Grand Rounds at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology (University of Ottawa, ON, Canada)

December 2021
Presented Grand Rounds at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology (University of Calgary, AB, Canada)

June 2021
Presentation at the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada Annual Clinical and Scientific Conference (Whistler, BC, Canada)

June 2021
(Poster) Presentation at the Science Writers & Communicators of Canada Virtual Conference (Canada)
Awarded 1st prize in poster competition

April 2021
Presentation at the Alberta Medical Foundation/Hannah Student Lectures in the History of Medicine and Health Care (University of Calgary, AB, Canada)

March 2021
Oral presentation at the Calgary History of Medicine Society’s History of Medicine Days 2021 29th & 30th Annual Conference (University of Calgary, AB, Canada)

January 2020
Presentation at the Graduate Students’ Association 4th Annual Graduate Research Symposium: Peer Beyond 2020Developing an Innovating Decision Aid for Caesarean Birth Plans in Canada using Women’s Perspectives and Experiences of Existing Antenatal Communication and Access to Care” (University of Calgary, AB, Canada)

November 2019
Presentation at University of Aberdeen Research Agenda Setting Workshop on Shared Decision Making in Planning Childbirth (Edinburgh, UK)

October 2018
Presented Grand Rounds at the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology (University of Calgary AB, Canada)

June 2015
Presentation at Continental Gynecologic Society Talks (Banff, AB, Canada)

April 2015
Attended the Western Society of Pelvic Medicine conference (Calgary, AB, Canada)

October 2013
Speaker at Birthrights Dignity in Childbirth Forum (London, UK)

March 2009
Speaker at ‘Controversies in Childbirth’ Conference (Texas, USA)

March 2006
Attended the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference: Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request (Maryland, USA)
Contributed to 3-day formulation of the final CDMR Conference Statement.