Lightning Rounds
Conference Program: Midwifery Lightning Rounds
Come join your fellow midwives to learn more about nine midwifery-led projects in a 90-minute lightning round session!
Envisioning midwifery futures: Innovative, expanded care
| Presentation Title | Speakers(s) | Presentation Summary |
| Midwifery-led medical abortion through Ontario's EMCM | Rebecca Hautala | Findings from this research inform client- and provider-centered midwifery-led abortion care and support reproductive justice. |
| Virtual Support, Real Impact: Innovations in Midwifery-Led Perinatal Mental Health Support: | Christine Sandor | This presentation will provide midwives will explore the pivotal role midwives have in promoting perinatal mental health for their clients and the broader community. |
| The impact of expanded midwifery care models on access to care and the quadruple aim: | Elizabeth Darling | The study findings provide insight into how EMCMs have the potential to improve access to midwifery care services and contribute positively to the quadruple aim. |
| Sustainable practice and care for all pregnancies | Carmita Magnaye and Jenna Bly | The learning and consensus reached on clinical management approaches that are consistent and evidence based for all patients experiencing T1 complications of pregnancy will be shared. |
| Postpartum emergency department use following midwifery-model vs. obstetrics-model care: a population-based cohort study using propensity score-based overlap weights | Carla Sorbara | This research underscores the value of midwives by highlighting the way in which the care model protects clients from unnecessary emergency department visits. |
Envisioning midwifery futures: Equity and belonging
| Presentation | Speakers(s) | Presentation Summary |
| Hypervigilance: A constructivist grounded theory of the impact of racism on racialized midwives in Ontario | Claire Ramlogan-Salanga | This study provides insights into the stresses that racialized midwives face while working and presents recommendations to counter the impacts of racism. |
| Preliminary Exploration of Early Induction Recommendations for South Asian Clients | Minnie Quach | This presentation focuses on health equity for a racialized group currently being targeted with early IOL intervention recommendations highlighting a need for race-based data in Ontario to tackle perinatal health inequities |
| REDEFINE: Redefining reproduction and sexual health | Beth Murray Davis | This presentation will discuss the current research around gender-inclusive language. This will support the aim of sustainability within midwifery through encouraging safe(r) spaces for trans, queer, and 2-Spirit families and midwives alike. |
| Collaborating with First Nations to look at BORN data | Diane Simon | This presentation will describe the AOM's work to uphold First Nations data sovereignty and data governance by building relationships and entering into formal data sharing agreements with First Nations. |