| Keynote Presenters
We are proud to announce the following Keynote Presenters.
The presentations by these outstanding individuals promises
to be both informative and inspirational. More to be announced
soon.
Mary Koloroutis, RN, MSN
Relationship-Based Care: Creating the Conditions for Healing and Hope
John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, Former President of the American Medical Association
Grief, Belief, Relief: What Every Caregiver Should Know about Pregnancy Loss
Jim McManaman, PhD
Keynote title TBD
Irving Leon, PhD
Extending our Reach: Improving Caregiving for Early Pregnancy and NICU Losses
Karen Kaiser Clark, BS
Keynote title TBD
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Mary Koloroutis, RN, MSN
Relationship-Based Care: Creating the Conditions for Healing and Hope
With over 30 years of healthcare experience, Mary offers a depth of expertise in professional nursing practice having served as director of the Perinatal Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and co-facilitated pregnancy loss and postpartum depression groups. Currently she is a consultant for Creative Health Care Management with a focus on Relationship-Based Care and the development of caring leaders and strengthening relationships among members of the health care team.
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John C. Nelson, MD, MPH, Former President of the American Medical Association
Grief, Belief, Relief: What Every Caregiver Should Know about Pregnancy Loss
John is an obstetrician-gynecologist with over 30 years of active clinical practice and former President of the American Medical Association. As a result of working with many patients who experienced perinatal loss and then his own personal loss, John recognized he had not received any formal training in the complexities of perinatal bereavement. He will share how this realization, and what he learned from his patients and personal experience, affects his professional practice.
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Jim McManaman, PhD
Keynote title TBD
In 2007, Jim was awarded a 3-year scientific research grant by the March of Dimes to identify proteins and other substances for early diagnosis of infection or inflammation so that these conditions may be treated before they lead to preterm labor. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.
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Irving Leon, PhD
Extending our Reach: Improving Caregiving for Early Pregnancy and NICU Losses
As a licensed clinical psychologist, Irving has worked for over twenty years with more than two hundred families in the areas of reproductive loss, adoption counseling, and bereavement. He authored the first guide to psychotherapy for pregnancy and perinatal loss, When a Baby Dies: Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss. Irving is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Michigan Medical School.
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Karen Kaiser Clark, BS
Keynote title TBD
For over twenty years Karen has been a lecturer, consultant, educator and author of three best-selling books on growing through change. She engages, entertains and empowers her audiences to develop realistic expectations, practical coping skills, and support systems. Karen is President of the Center for Executive Planning.
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