The Nineteenth Annual Martha Browning Bryant Memorial Lecture
Safer Outcomes for Moms and Babies Through Better Collaboration and Communication
Saturday October 8, 2011 • Eliot Center • 1011 SW 12th Ave • Portland, Oregon
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PROGRAM
This year’s Martha Bryant Memorial Lecture will focus on improving access to safe birthing options. Families have become more selective in their approaches to labor and birth. Many want low-tech/high touch options without sacrificing safety. How do we respond?
CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES
Here are a few of the questions we hope to answer at this year’s very lively conference:
- How risky is homebirth?
- What can make it safer?
- What are a few simple ways we can reduce the Cesarean birth rate quickly?
- Back by popular demand- we will have a hands-on practice session for rotating babies from OP and OT to OA!
- How can fetal monitoring be a tool for improving outcomes?
- When can we unhook the electronic monitor and just listen with the Doppler as women labor in water and move freely?
- What kind of fetal surveillance is used at home and how safe is it?
- Where can women go when they want to birth their breech baby vaginally?
- How can those of us who practice in the hospital welcome families who need to transfer in from home or birth center?
- How can we improve their experience so they come early when a concern is identified?
Please join us and bring a colleague so we may have a lively discussion
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| 7:45 | Registration, Continental Breakfast and Introductions |
| 8:30-9:30 | The Cesarean Epidemic and Potential Solutions Aaron Caughey, MD |
| 9:30-10:00 | Hands-On Practice: Rotating OP and OT to OA, Break |
| 10:00-11:00 | Standardized Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Nomenclature: Adding a Little Color to the Mix. Mark Tomlinson, MD |
| 11:00-12:00 | Emerging Technologies in Fetal Monitoring- Will They Help? Jorge Tolosa, MD |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:00 | Fetal Monitoring and Out of Hospital Birth: What Does the Evidence Say About Safety? Linda Glenn, CNM, PMHNP, MPH, MN |
| 2:00-3:00 | Choice and Safety in Normal Birth Options: Traversing the Home/Hospital Divide Melissa Cheyney, CPM, PhD |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 | A Community Conversation About Access to Safe Birthing Options
Panelists: Responses from community members from home and hospital birthing
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| 4:30 | Adjourn |
| 4:45-5:45 | ACNM Chapter Meeting |
FACULTY
Melissa Cheney, PhD, CPM. Dr. Cheney is a faculty member in Medical and Biological Anthropology at Oregon State University, and attends home births. Dr. Cheyney chairs the Oregon Board of Direct-Entry Midwifery, which regulates the practice of licensed midwives who are not nurses. She also chairs the Division of Research for Midwives Alliance of North America, (MANA).
Linda Glenn, CNM, MPH, PMHNP, MN Midwife (CNM) who works in the faculty midwifery practice at Oregon Health and Science University and also attends home births with her private practice, Vivante Midwifery. Like Dr. Cheyney, she serves on the birth center in North Carolina, as well as establishing a safe system of care for families choosing home birth.
Aaron Caughey, MD, MPH, PhD. Dr. Caughey is an OB/GYN and maternal fetal medicine specialist. He is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as Director of the Center for Women’s Health at Oregon Health and Science University. Upon his arrival in Portland last year, he began working with last year’s speaker, Dr. Mark Nichols on a protocol for physiologic (vaginal) breech birth at OHSU. He is a champion of VBAC, and of slowing our expectations for normal labor progress, in order to reduce the cesarean delivery rate.
Mark Tomlinson, MD, MBA Dr. Tomlinson is an OB/GYN and maternal fetal medicine specialist. He serves as the Portland Regional Medical of Director of Obstetric Services for the Providence Medical System. In this post, he played a key role in implementing the NICHD fetal monitoring language and more recently, the revised color/category system in use throughout the Providence Portland Service area.
Jorge Tolosa, MD, MSCE. Dr. Tolosa is an OB/GYN and maternal fetal medicine specialist. Dr. Tolosa is the founder and Coordinator of the Global Network for Perinatal and Reproductive Health, an international consortium of researchers. He practices clinically at OHSU and at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, WA, where he is also the Director of Perinatal Research. He has been involved in the effort to test STAN monitoring for use in the US.
ABOUT MARTHAMartha was a treasured member of the Portland midwifery community who was tragically murdered on her way home from a birth in 1992. The Martha Browning Bryant Memorial Lecture has been held annually to honor her memory and remember her spirit. Proceeds from the conference have created a scholarship for midwifery students.
LOCATION
Eliot Center
1011 SW 12th Ave
Portland, OR
This year's conference will be held in downtown Portland at the new Eliot Center, 1011 SW 12th Ave. This new conference facility is on the campus of the First Unitarian Church. You can enter through the gate in the middle of the block, or from Salmon St between 12th and 13th.
Free parking will be provided in the lot on 12th that faces the church. (Don't pay at the U-Park meter). Better yet- take MAX or the Portland Streetcar.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A special thanks to all those who volunteered their time and expertise to make this conference a success:
- Alissa McMaken-Roberts who does the heavy lifting on the CE application every year
- Sarah West - her jump in and help-out assistant
- Lisa Chickadonz - chair
- Geri Cullers - with special thanks
- Annie Christopherson - food and facilities
- Janell Niemann-Ross - registrar
- Kate Pelosi - thanks for emcee-ing (again!)
- Laura Bartko, Holly Boehm, Angie Chisholm, Elise Erickson, Kristen Jamsa, Robi Jaspin, Jessie Kerstetter, Patricia Reddy, Joanna Sullivan.
Sponsored by the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Nurse-Midwives
This Program is supported by educational grant from Providence Regional Women and Children's Program