Labor Pain Symposium Steering Committee | Labor Pain Initiative

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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.

Most recent page update: 2/20/2006


Labor Pain Symposium Steering Committee A multi-disciplinary Steering Committee of national leaders was convened to plan and carry out The Nature and Management of Labor Pain: An Evidence-Based Symposium and to provide guidance on subsequent publishing of commissioned papers. The group worked together and made substantive decisions over a two-year period. It worked to ensure that the papers would offer a panoramic view of the field, would summarize the best research currently available and minimize bias, and would address needs and interests of childbearing women and their families. The Committee issued an Executive Summary (click for PDF) describing the rationale for the project, processes and methods used, and main results and implications of the papers. Collectively, Steering Committee members provided expertise in anesthesiology, bioethics, childbirth education, consumer advocacy, epidemiology, journalism, labor support, midwifery, neonatology, nursing, obstetrics, pediatrics, physical therapy, and public health. Steering Committee Members: Donald Caton, MD Professor of Anesthesiology Joint Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Florida Maureen P. Corry, MPH Executive Director Childbirth Connection Alan R. Fleischman, MD Senior Vice President New York Academy of Medicine Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine Fredric D. Frigoletto, MD Charles and Robert Montraville Green Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Harvard Medical School Chief of Obstetrics Massachusetts General Hospital David P. Hopkins, MD, MPH Staff Scientist Community Guide Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Ellice Lieberman, MD, DrPH Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology Harvard Medical School Director, Center for Perinatal Research Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Brigham and Women's Hospital Associate Professor of Maternal and Child Health Harvard School of Public Health Linda J. Mayberry, PhD, RN Associate Professor Director, Center for Nursing Research Division of Nursing, School of Education New York University Judith P. Rooks, CNM, MPH Childbirth Connection Consultant and Symposium Project Director Allan Rosenfield, MD DeLamar Professor and Dean Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University Carol Sakala, PhD, MSPH Director of Programs Childbirth Connection Penny Simkin, PT Independent Practice of Childbirth Education, Labor Support Faculty, Seattle School of Midwifery Diony Young Editor Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care © 2013 Childbirth Connection. All rights reserved. Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through research, education, advocacy and policy. Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families. Most recent page update: 2/20/2006