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Speakers
Csilla Andor, MSW, LCSW
, is Executive Director of WellMama,
Inc. Maternal
Mental Health and Support Services. Csilla is an Oregon state
coordinator for Postpartum Support International, and is the co-chair
of the Lane County Perinatal Mood Disorders Consortium.
She dedicated her psychotherapy career to a specialty in reproductive
health related concerns after her own experience with perinatal mood
and anxiety disorders. Her clinical focus includes pregnancy,
childbirth, postpartum,
perinatal loss, infertility and adoption.
Kimberly Bepler, CPD, ICPE, CLE
is a Certified Postpartum Doula (CAPPA and DONA), a Certified Postnatal
Educator (ICEA), and a Certified Postpartum Doula Trainer (CAPPA). She
received her Lactation Specialist and Educator training from Evergreen
Hospital. She has been working with postpartum families for over eight
years, and has a passion for the newborn and the new family. Kimberly
founded ABC Doula Service in 2001, and has seen the company grow to
serving over 450 families in the Portland metro area. Kimberly
also teaches breastfeeding, newborn care, new mom support groups, and
twin/triplet classes within the Providence Health System, and offers
doula trainings through CAPPA and Birthingway College of Midwifery.
Madrona Bourdeau CPM,
LDM lives her life with intention and compassion as a
practicing midwife for over thirty years. She started her path to
midwifery in 1976 with the births of her three children, two of whom
were born at home. Like most of the midwives of her era, her education
was through self study, workshops and apprenticeship. She completed her
apprenticeship in 1983 and worked on legislation until she moved to
Oregon in 1988. She is a NARM Qualified
Evaluator.

Melissa Cheyney, Ph.D.,
CPM, LDM is an Assistant Professor at Oregon State
University. She is the author of thebook Born at Home:
The Biological, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Maternity Care in
the United States (Wadsworth) and her research was recently
featured in a Time
Magazine article. In addition to teaching, she has a home birth
practice in Oregon.

Wendy
Davis, Ph.D, has a
counseling and consulting practice, specializing in pregnancy, birth,
and postpartum mental health and recovery. She was the Founding
Director of Baby Blues Connection mom-to-mom support organization in
1994, and now serves as their clinical adviser and
volunteer trainer. She is the Program Director and Oregon support
coordinator for Postpartum Support International. She provides
training and consultation in governmental, clinical, and community
settings and enjoys working with diverse communities to develop
sustainable perinatal mental health networks.
Andrea Dixon,
CNM, From the first NAPSAC group of Ann Arbor, Michigan
in the 70’s, studying midwifery in Boulder, Colorado, and
becoming a CNM in 1987, Andrea has covered nearly all the bases in the
world of Midwifery. She was the sole proprietor of Family Way Midwifery
in Mt. Shasta, California from 1988-1995 while managing a midwife
service for the Redding Birth Center, California. She has served women
in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, Missouri, and Indianapolis. She serves as a current Board Member for Indiana Midwives
Association.
Sharon Craig Economides, BA, CPM, MSc, IBCLC,
was born at home with a midwife, she has worked as a homebirth midwife,
in a birth center, and in hospital settings in Russia, Haiti, the
Philippines, Afghanistan and California. She received her Masters degree in Midwifery through
the University of Sheffield in the UK. She is a freelance
writer for Midwifery Today, Sojourners, Pakistan's The
Friday Times and other publications. She works with Awakenings Birth
Services, a traditional midwifery and homebirth service in the
San Francisco Bay Area. She is on the
faculty at Aviva Institute. She is a NARM Qualified
Evaluator.
Jill Edwards, ND is a midwife and naturopathic physician with the Vibrant Family Medicine in Gresham, Oregon. She also conducts clinical research at the Helfgott Research Institute. See her an article in recent issue of Fit Pregnancy about aromatherapy in pregnancy. She currently is continuing her research education at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) with the two year certificate program: Human Investigation Program.
Virginia
(Ginger) Frazer, ND, LM graduated
from Bastyr
University, receiving her doctorate in naturopathic
medicine. In 1993, she received her midwifery certificate after
precepting in the Seattle area. Ginger received her undergraduate
degree in
Environmental Studies at University of California at Santa Cruz
and her
BS degree in human health sciences from Bastyr University.
She currently runs an independent practice in natural family
medicine. She and her
partner deliver babies in a
community that covers a wide geographic area, which is a
city/agricultural desert region on the Columbia
River.
Alesha
Fox, MS has over seven years experience working in
quality assurance in the field of education. Alesha has presented
information regarding accreditation to the Public Policy graduate
students and the University of Oregon and is currently the
Administrative Director of Aviva Institute.
Bonnie
Gruenberg, MSN,
CNM, CRNP is a
practicing midwife, writer, artist and
photographer. She is the author of Hoof Prints in the Sand, Wild
Horses of the Atlantic Coast (Eclipse Press, 2002), Essentials
of Prehospital Maternity Care (Prentice
Hall, 2005), and Birth
Emergency Skills Training (B.E.S.T.) Manual for out-of-hospital birth
providers (2008). She has
practiced in urban high-tech hospitals
as well as the lamp-lit Amish bedrooms of rural Pennsylvania. She
currently practices midwifery in central Pennsylvania, caring for an
underserved, culturally diverse inner city population.
Jesse
Remer Henderson BCD, PCD, CBDT, LCCE Mother Tree Birth
Services. She
is a Lamaze certified educator and a certified DONA trainer. She has
supported hundreds of families in out-of-hospital settings. She has
worked in the Legacy Health System, Adventist Medical Center, Zenana
Spa and Wellness Center and Loving Touch Classroom. Her teaching
specialty includes Natural Pain Coping Techniques, Comfort Massage,
Comfort Positions for Labor.
Erin
Hildebrandt is a wife,
mother,activist, artist, legally registered Oregon medical marijuana
patient, public speaker, and an internationally published writer. She
co-founded Parents Ending Prohibition, and her writing has been printed
in Mothering Magazine, New York's Newsday, and
Canada's National Post, among many others. Erin has been
interviewed for a front page story in USA Today, and she has
been published in the American Bar Association Journal.
Edwin
Hoffman-Smith, PhD, ND, earned a PhD in biology from Case
Western Reserve University in 1971 and graduated from the National
College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1979. His naturopathic family
practice includes attending home and birth center births. He has
organized two parenting conferences and teaches a monthly parenting
class. For the past five years, he has taught a monthly workshop on the
pros and cons of routine
childhood vaccinations which is the subject of his conference
presentation.
Lisa Johnson, MA, IBCLC, RLC, LCCE has her Master’s in Human Development with a specialization in Lactation Consulting from Pacific Oaks College and the Lactation Institute. She has been a Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 2007. Lisa is also a certified childbirth educator. Her primary lactation focus has been helping teen moms breastfeed. She also has a special interest in ankyloglossia, and spent time with a Pediatric surgeon researching a new way to perform frenotomies. She currently is working as a Lactation Consultant for Legacy Health System. |
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Crystal Mattox, LMFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist working in the Portland area for 5 years. She specializes in helping to understand and heal the emotional and psychological effects that varied kinds of trauma have on personal identity and intimate relationships. She enjoys teaching and speaking on subjects related to helping people understand and make meaning of difficult events in a life enhancing way.
Hope Medford, CPM graduated from the National College of Midwifery in 1999 and became a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in 2000.
Hope is consistently seeking knowledge in natural birth, often looking to blend the wisdom of modern medicine and world traditions. She has worked with the African Birth Collective, attending births alongside African Midwives and teaching students in a birth center in Senegal, West Africa. She has also travelled and exchanged knowledge with midwives, nurses, and birth assistants in Peru, Brazil, and South Africa to learn about their countries' birth practices. She has a home birth practice with Mothertree Birth in Portland, Oregon.
Andi Markell, RD, has been a dietitian since 2000. She was the first neonatal dietitian at Legacy Emanuel Health Center and has been responsible for creating the nutrition program in the NICU and co-established the Nutrition & Lactation Follow Up Service an outpatient service for babies who discharge from the NICU on fortified breastmilk feeds. She continues to work clinically in the NICU as well as non-clinically as the Lead Neonatal and Pediatric Dietitian at Emanuel.
Margi Munson, IBCLC, RLC was trained at the Lactation Institute in Los Angeles from 1983-85, and was among the 254 candidates that sat for the first IBCLC exam in 1985. Currently, she is the supervisor for Legacy Health System Lactation Services and as a Lactation Consultant. At Legacy, she was instrumental in the establishment of the unique Nutrition/Lactation Follow up Service that is provided to the graduates of the NICU..
Cynthia
Luxford, CPM, LDEM, has been practicing midwifery since 1988 on the
Central
Oregon Coast, where she also has a Licensed Freestanding Birth Center,
Home Sweet Home Birth. She trains midwives through apprenticeships as a
preceptor for Birthingway College of Midwifery in Portland, Oregon,
National College of Midwives in Taos, New Mexico and Aviva Institute.
She currently holds a position on the Oregon State
Board of Midwifery.

Doris
Onnis, RN, IBCLC, RLC has been a practicing nurse for 30 years
and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1997.
She has been involved with Maternal-Child Health including
Neonatal ICU, Newborn nursery, Postpartum care, and Home Health for
Maternal-Child postpartum follow-up. Doris supervises the Lactation
Program for Providence St. Vincent Hospital as well as the Postpartum
Care Center. In this role she teaches RNs and Lactation
Consultants advanced practice breastfeeding education as well as
managing patient care. Since 1995, Doris has been involved with
the growth and development of breastfeeding programs at Providence St.
Vincent. In 2006, BabySteps Consulting, LLC was developed by
Doris. This service was designed to provide lactation
consultations in the comfort of a family's home. All of these
activities are supported by her wonderful husband and four children.
Sylvia
Bortin Patience, CNM, MSN, FPN,
has practiced midwifery since
1976, when she began as an apprentice trained home birth midwife in
Idaho. In 1984, she was certified as a Nurse Midwife from
Stanford
University and licensed in
California. She received her Masters
Degree in nursing from the University
of California, San Francisco
and
her Family Nurse Practitioner with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing,
from the Boise
State University.
She is on the
faculty at Aviva Institute.
Tamy
Roloff LM, CPM, CD started attending
births in 1984. She became
a La Leche League Leader
in 1995, a DONA certified doula in 1998, a Certified Childbirth
Educator with ICEA in 2000, and a DONA Approved Doula Trainer in 2003,
and graduated from Seattle
Midwifery
School in 2003. She has a
bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Eastern
Washington University. She
lives and practices in Long Beach,
Washington. She trains doulas both through DONA and Aviva Institute
where she serves on the faculty.
Jodi Selander created PlacentaBenefits.info
in 2006 to raise awareness of the benefits of using the placenta for
postpartum recovery. She then developed the Placenta Encapsulation
Specialist Training & Certification Course to help professionals
provide safe, quality placenta encapsulation services to new mothers.
She is the author of the upcoming book entitled The Postpartum Survival
Guide. Jodi is currently involved in placenta research at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Daphne
Singingtree, CPM is
the
author of the Birthsong
Midwifery
Workbook, Emergency Guide to Obstetric Complications,
and Training Midwives: A Guide
for Preceptors. She has been practicing and teaching midwives since 1974. She is
the founder and Academic Director of Aviva
Institute. She has a Bachelor in Organizational Management from Ashford University where she currently working on her Masters in Education with a concentration on
Technology Leadership.
Rose St.
John is
author of Fathers at Birth: Your
Role in Bringing
Your Child into the World
and is committed to offering men a strong sense of place in the
birthing process. The book was highly recommended by Mothering Magazine
and endorsed by Barbara Harper, who said it is, "the best doula book
ever written." St. John is a mother, doula,
prenatal/postnatal and couples yoga instructor, and created a birth
preparation program based on yogic principles. Please visit her website
here.
Meg Stalnaker, ICBLC
is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and has been
working with breastfeeding families since 1991. Meg works with Beyond Birth Lactation Services
at Zenana Spa and Wellness Center and has taught Childbirth and Newborn
Care and Breastfeeding classes for the Providence Health System for 16
years. Meg also practiced as a Homebirth Midwife for 13 years and
attended Birthingway Midwifery School. As a mother of 3, Meg is
continually inspired by the journey that birth, breastfeeding and
parenting takes us on and the lessons that we learn from these
experiences.
Alisa Weiss, ICCE-CPE, CD(DONA) ,
originally trained as a Bradley educator, has since earned
certifications as an ICEA childbirth and postnatal educator, lactation
educator, labor and postpartum doula. Alisa currently teaches a wide
variety of prenatal classes for three hospital systems in the
Portland/Vancouver area. She is a passionate, innovative educator with
dynamic ideas for meeting the needs of this generation. As a pioneer in
the home birthing, home schooling community, Alisa will challenge and
inspire you. Married for 37 years with six sons and one daughter, she
brings a wealth of experiences and humor to her presentations.
Dixie Whetsell,
MS, IBCLC, RLCis an
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant who has been working
with breastfeeding families since 1992. She has a Master’s degree
in Health Education from the University of Oregon. Dixie has experience
working as a lactation consultant in both private practice and in a
hospital setting. She also instructs lactation training courses. She
has served as a breastfeeding consultant with county and state WIC
programs. She is an active member of the Oregon Washington Lactation
Association, the International Lactation Consultant Association. She is
a member of the Board of Directors for the Northwest Mothers Milk Bank
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