Science & Sensibility

Contributors

July 14th, 2010

Amy Romano, MSN, CNM	Amy Romano is Science & Sensibility’s managing editor and chief contributor. She has analyzed, summarized, and critiqued research for the Lamaze International community since 2004 as a columnist for The Journal of Perinatal Education. She also co-authored The Evidence Basis for the 10 Steps of the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (pdf), is currently co-authoring the second edition of Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities with Henci Goer and is on the editorial team for the forthcoming 9th edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. She has practiced as a nurse-midwife in hospitals, birth centers, and at home and taught on the nurse-midwifery faculty at the Yale School of Nursing. She is the mother of two young children.
Henci Goer	Henci Goer, award-winning medical writer and internationally known speaker, is the author of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth. She is currently at work on the second edition of Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities, her highly-acclaimed resource for childbirth professionals. An independent scholar, she is an acknowledged expert on evidence-based maternity care. In addition to contributing to Science & Sensibility, Henci guides childbearing women and those caring for them through evidence-based decision-making in the Ask Henci Forum.
Mayri Sagady Leslie	Mayri Sagady Leslie is a midwife and a member of the clinical faculty at Yale University School of Nursing where she recently arrived after three years on faculty at Georgetown University’s Nurse-Midwifery Program. Prior to that time she was the Director of the UCSD Nurse-Midwifery Service and Birth Center in San Diego. She is the current Co-Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization and former Chair of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services. Mayri’s writing has been published in Lamaze Parent’s Magazine, the Journal of Perinatal Education, and ACNM’s “B” Magazine and she was an author for the chapter on pain in Our Bodies Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. Her current projects include a text book for care providers on promoting and preserving physiologic childbirth and completing her doctoral studies at George Washington University on the phenomenon of individual capacity for transformational change.
Andrea Lythgoe	Andrea Lythgoe is a DONA-certified doula, hospital-based Lamaze childbirth educator, and instructor at the Midwives College of Utah. She is the author of the website UnderstandingResearch.com where she aims to help those just beginning to read research to understand the language of research. Her interest in research started while attending the University of Utah, where she made ends meet by working on a large randomized controlled trial and earned a degree in community health. Andrea has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Doula Association for 10 years. She lives and practices in the Salt Lake City, Utah area.
Tricia Pil, MD	Tricia Pil, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician, science writer, and senior project coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences. Her interest in safe, evidence-based, and compassionate maternal and infant care stems from her professional background and personal experience as a mother of three young children. Her first publication, “Babel: Voices of a Medical Trauma,” recently appeared in the online medical journal Pulse.
Kimmelin Hull	Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE, is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, mother of three, and author of A Dozen Invisible Pieces and Other Confessions of Motherhood. You can visit Kimmelin at her blog site: http://kimmelin.wordpress.com.
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC	Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, is a health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and La Leche League Leader. She specializes in synthesizing current research on breastfeeding and related fields, facilitating the provision of evidence-based care. Dr. Kendall-Tackett has authored more than 180 articles or chapters and is the author or editor of 17 books on maternal depression, family violence and breastfeeding. You can find more from her at Uppity Science Chick.