Opening General Session: Lenora Billings-HarrisThe Diversity Advantage: The Oz Perspective
Wednesday, May 14, 2:00-3:30 PM
As a diversity strategist, Lenora partners with
organizations to help them make diversity a competitive advantage. She has been
included as one of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity and Inclusion by The
Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), and was named by Diversity Woman
Magazine as one of the twenty top influential diversity leaders in the US. Her
award winning diversity leadership research is recognized in journals
internationally. Lenora's ability to transform multifaceted diversity and
inclusion concepts into immediately applicable "how to's" have
enabled her to help Fortune 500 companies, professional associations,
government agencies and educational institutions facilitate change to attract
and retain top talent, expand multicultural markets, and heighten the number of
engaged employees.
Midwifery and Quality Care: The story of the Lancet series on midwifery
Friday, May 16, 8:30 - 9:30 AM
Mary Renfrew, BSc, RN, DN, RM, PhD, is a health researcher with a clinical background in
midwifery and nursing. She has conducted research in policy and practice in
maternity care and in infant feeding for over 30 years, and has worked in the
universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, Leeds, York, and Dundee in the UK and in
Alberta, Canada. She was appointed an inaugural Senior Investigator
with the UK National Institute for Health Research, has been Chair of the WHO
Strategic Committee for Maternal and Newborn Health, and was a founding
co-editor of the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group. She is a member of
the ICM Research Standing Committee and the WHO working group on quality of
care in midwifery, and is currently leading a global alliance to write a
Special Series on Midwifery for the Lancet, funded by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
Therese Dondero Lecturer: Sonia Hassan, MDSaturday, May 17, 8:45-9:45 AM
Progesterone and Preterm Birth Prevention: Which Agent, Which Patient?
Coming Together and Moving the Mainstream
Saturday, May 17, 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Dawn
Thompson is the founder of ImprovingBirth.org. She has
been in the birth industry since 2003, supporting hundreds of families as a labor & postpartum doula. Because of her own personal struggle through 3 preventable cesareans before a healing normal birth, her passion for
birth has become her life mission.
