Tara Livesay

Tara Livesay Midwife and Director Heartline Maternity Center Tara Livesay is originally from Minnesota, Tara is a Certified Professional Midwife and the Director of Heartline Maternity Center. Tara and her husband, Troy, along with their seven children moved to Haiti in January of 2006 where they have lived and worked for well over a decade.…

Yvonne McGrath

Yvonne McGrath Consultant Midwife Lincolnshire East Clinical Commissioning Group Yvonne is employed by the CCG within the Better Births transformation team and works closely with the local trust, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust to ensure strong links are maintained to facilitate delivering the maternity transformation programme. With a strong background in caseload and midwifery-led models of…

Kizzy Lynch

Kizzy Lynch Lead Midwife for Education, Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader University of Lincoln Kizzy’s responsibilities include ensuring the quality of the midwifery programme is maintained in line with the University of Lincoln and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards, ensuring good relationships are maintained with practice partners. Curriculum development is a large part of the…

Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam

Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam Consultant Epidemiologist National Infection Service, Public Health England Gayatri studied medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine, London (1994-2000). After completing her medical training, she spent 4 years training in clinical paediatrics, developing an interest in paediatric infectious diseases. Gayatri completed the MRCPCH (Membership of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health)…

Nicos Middleton

Associate Professor Nicos Middleton Associate Professor in Health Sciences Research Methodology and Biostatistics Head of Department of Nursing and Dean of School of Health Sciences Cyprus University of Technology Nicos Middleton: BSc Statistics and Operational Research (UCL, 1997), MSc Health Care Decision Analysis (LSE and LSHTM, 1998), PhD Epidemiology (Social & Community Medicine, University of…

Anna af Ugglas

Anna af Ugglas Global Programme and Implementation Manager Laerdal Global Health, Norway In 1991, Anna became a registered midwife to thereafter complete a bachelor’s degree and receive a certificate as a teacher in Caring Education in 1999. Her master’s degree was obtained in Social Science with a Major in education with specialization in Caring Education…

Andrew Weeks

Andrew Weeks Consultant Obstetrician, Liverpool Women’s Hospital Professor of International Maternal Health Care, University of Liverpool. Andrew Weeks is Consultant Obstetrician at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and Professor of International Maternal Health Care at the University of Liverpool. Although brought up in Kenya, he undertook undergraduate and postgraduate medical training around Yorkshire. In 2001 he returned…

Zoe Wright

Zoe Wright Midwife The Real Birth Company Zoe is a Registered Midwife and graduated from Birmingham City University. At the heart of her practice is choice, respect and dignity. Working in various hospital environments her passion has always been in advocacy and educating women and later in her career, supporting midwives and promoting confidence in…

Inderjeet Kaur

Inderjeet Kaur Director of Midwifery Fernandez Foundation, India Ms. Indie is the Director of Midwifery at Fernandez Hospital, Hyderabad. She has spent the last year in India training professional midwives. She is passionate about reducing maternal mortality via the midwifery training and respectful humanised care for Indian mothers. Her previous role was Consultant Midwife for…

Dr Kate Levett

Dr Kate Levett Senior Research Fellow School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Australia Kate Levett is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney School of Medicine, and an adjunct Fellow at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) at Western Sydney University. She has recently received an NHMRC Early…