Our Beginnings Matter: Birthing our future

Our Beginnings Matter: Birthing our future

Brisbane, QLD: Brisbane: Monday 4 November 2019

Beginnings Matter Brisbane 04/11/2019

08:15 AM
Registration open – tea and coffee served
08:30 AM
Welcome Address
08:45 AM
Oxytocin, foundation of childbearing - Dr Sarah Buckley
09:45 AM
Maternity in Crisis? - Robert M Biter MD
10:45 AM
Morning Tea
11:15 AM
Maternal environment and birth physiology - Dr Sarah Buckley
12:15 PM
Surviving the slings and arrows – Effecting change in the modern maternity system - Robert M Biter MD
01:00 PM
Lunch
02:00 PM
Seed planting workshop - Elly Taylor
04:30 PM
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Dr Sarah Buckley
BIOGRAPHY

Dr Sarah Buckley

MB ChB, DipObst, General Practitioner
Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children, and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting.
 
She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland,, where her research is focused on oxytocin and the autonomic nervous system in labour and birth, and the impacts of interventions.
 
Dr Buckley’s work critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from the widest possible perspectives, including scientific, anthropological, cross-cultural, psychological, and personal. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.
Elly Taylor
BIOGRAPHY

Elly Taylor

Elly Taylor is an internationally recognised perinatal relationship expert, author and founder of Becoming Us.

Elly has served on advisory panels for Monash University, Newcastle University and the Australian Catholic University research projects and is currently on the board of the International Forum for Wellbeing in Pregnancy.

Elly lives in Sydney with her firefighter husband, their three children and a bunch of pets.

 

 

 

 

 

Robert M Biter MD
BIOGRAPHY

Robert M Biter MD

OB/GYN & ADVOCATE

Robert M. Biter, MD is a holistic Obstetrician and Gynecologist, founder of the worldwide nonprofit Seaside Giving and CEO of Babies by the Sea Birthing Centers. During his clinical practice, he received multiple awards including San Diego Padres Medical Community AllStar, Best OB/Gyn in San Diego by Ranch and Coast Magazine multiple years in a row and 40 under 40 Most Important San Diego Leaders.

During his medical education at Pennsylvania State University, he was named most outstanding graduate entering the field of OB/Gyn where he received multiple scholarships including named a National Health Service Corps Scholar. During his postgraduate training he was honored as an American Medical Association Leadership Award and was named Best Chief Resident from the nursing staff and Best Resident Teacher.

His undergraduate education was at Juniata College with a dual degree in theatre and premedical studies having earned scholarships for both areas of his studies.