Our Speakers

 

 

 

Denise Tiran, MSc RM RGN ADM PGCEA, a midwife, complementary practitioner and visiting lecturer at the University of Greenwich, is aninternationally acclaimed authority on maternity-related complementary medicine. Denise is founder and Director of Expectancy which provides accredited complementary therapy courses for midwives – see www.expectancy.co.uk. Clinically, Denise specialises in treating women with “morning sickness”, using an integrated approach which incorporates several complementary therapies (CTs). She has written / edited ten books on various aspects of CTs, as well as the last three editions of the world-famous Bailliere’s Midwives’ Dictionary, three books for mothers and over 50 journal papers. Denise is on the editorial committee of the Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice journal, and is a Research Consultant to Canterbury Christchurch University, investigaring midwives use of an evidence-base with CTs, and the accuracy of advice on natural remedies given by midwives. Denise has assisted in the implementation of complementary medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology in Hong Kong and regularly teaches midwives, obstetricians and therapists in Japan and elsewhere overseas. She provides advice to the RCM and RCN on maternity CTs, and has advised the LSA midwifery officers in England on supervisory guidelines for midwives using CTs.


Sheena is currently the Head of Midwifery for a large maternity service, in the North West of England. In her previous role as Consultant Midwife she listened to women who were traumatised by birth, and has used this knowledge to support others and to maximise potential to challenge current systems of maternity care. Sheena has published work in this area, has presented nationally and internationally and has developed a variety of service user initiatives to promote change. She was nominated twice to meet with the Prime Minister in 2004, has been involved in several national projects with NICE and the Department of Health. 

Text Box: Dr Comfort Momoh is a Consultant/Public Health Specialist with extensive experience of holistic women centred care management, she joined the National Health Services in 1985 and had worked in a number of areas. She is a researcher of women’s health and a strong campaigner for the eradication of FGM. She established and runs the African Well Woman’s Clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas Foundation Trust, a support service for women and girls who have undergone FGM.

 

Comfort Momoh

Text Box: Lesley Page

Text Box: Lesley is Visiting Professor of Midwifery at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, Adjunct Professor University of Technology Sydney and Visiting Professor University of Sydney.  Lesley was expert adviser to the King’s Fund independent inquiry into the safety of maternity services in England that reported in Safe Births: Everybody’s Business (2008). Lesley has had many years experience working as a senior manager in the NHS and in midwifery practice, leadership and academia in the United Kingdom and Canada. She has published widely and has lectured in many parts of the world. She was a member of the Expert Maternity Group that wrote Changing Childbirth, published in 1993, and was specialist adviser to the House of Commons Sub-committee responsible for investigating the state of maternity services in 2003. For many years, Lesley’s research has focused on the effects of carer continuity on birth outcomes and evidence based care. Her clinical practice is in the Birth Centre and Community Maternity Service in Chipping Norton Oxon that is part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. Together with Rona McCandlish she is editor of the well known book ‘The New Midwifery: Science and Sensitivity in Practice’ ( 2006) published by Elsevier.

Brenda Van Der Kooy and Annie Francis

Text Box: Forming part of IMUK and pushing forward Independent Midwifery practice Annie and Brenda will be attending to discuss how things are progressing with their campaign.

Text Box: Jo Parkington and Marion Boulton

Text Box: Jo is an independent midwife based in the Cheshire area who will be speaking alongside Marion Boulton who also works within Cheshire.  One to One Maternity Services Ltd is a social enterprise company created by 2 midwives, Jo Parkington and Vicky Feeney.  Jo and Vicky had a vision to provide a maternity service provision that not only met the needs of women and their families during their birth journey but also to provide an alternative career choice to midwives who wished to work outside of the NHS. They will be discussing true midwifery placements for students and the future. 

Chair - Sheena Byrom.