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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Maria is interested in developing and implementing research that uses novel technologies and interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing and mental health outcomes for people with cancer and their families. Maria is committed to developing workforce capacity across the field to better address the psychosocial needs of people with cancer. Maria has been the recipient of multiple competitive grants and published in national and international peer review journals.
Sara has an expertise and passion for improving service delivery and patient outcomes. She has been involved in service redesign and independently developed Australia’s first cancer support mobile application ‘My Cancer Pal’ in 2016.
Sara sat on the Management Advisory Committee of the Australasian Lung cancer Trials Group (ALTG) for 3 years, and is the nurse representative on the Thoracic Oncology Group Australasia (TOGA) management committee, as well as a committee member for the Nurses and Allied Health Professionals committee for the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).
Dr. Bueno’s main research interests center on the molecular events that lead to malignancy in mesothelioma and lung cancer. Specifically, Dr. Bueno focuses on developing and fine-tuning biomarkers for diagnosis, prognostis and prediction in these cancers. His research also includes tumor sequencing of Mesothelioma and identification of targetable pathways.
Dr. Bueno’s research has been funded by the NCI for over 15 years is also funded by the DOD as well as several pharmacological and device companies. His lab’s molecular research is closely integrated with the tumor bank.
Clinically and administratively, Dr. Bueno supervises a division of 21 thoracic surgeons and 6 cardiac surgeons who work at the BWH and 5 additional network hospital performing nearly 5,000 general thoracic surgical cases of all types per year. In addition, he is the surgical director of the BWH Lung Center and a co-director of the Lung Research Center. His personal surgical practice is focused on cancer surgery including mesothelioma, lung and esophageal cancer. He performs approximately 350 operations per year and actively participates in resident education and mentorship.
