Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:
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Annet Mulder first became interested in breastfeeding in the year 2000, when she became a mother for the first time. During and because of her own breastfeeding experiences, in 2002 she became a volunteer with the Dutch breastfeeding Organization and in 2008 sat for and passed the exam administered by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she now
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Early 2015, she became active in the Patient Advisory Board of Longkanker Nederland (Dutch Patient Organisation), to be a face and a voice of Lung cancer in the Netherlands. Her international focus made her active on a European and Global scale. In 2018 she became an ambassador of Lung cancer Europe (LuCE, an European umbrella organisation of Patient Organisations) She is also the Dutch representan within the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC). She gives presentations on diverse platforms (ELCC, ESMO, WCLC etc.) and is active in diverse global patient councils.
To get more educated about her own driver mutation, she became active in the Global Initiative of the ROS1ders in 2015. In her own country, she started in 2016 the foundation Stichting Merels Wereld to raise (European) awareness about ROS1, and to get more research done. As a result, the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen started a research course ´Merels Wereld´ in 2017. Stichting Merels Wereld, together with the Hanze University of Applied Science together and the University Hospital Groningen, initiated, created, funded and implemented a ROS1 research program.
Every year she give lectures to (medical) students about the engaged patient and the benefits to collaborate with them.
