Presenter: JJ Erwich (University Medical Center Groningen) & Jess Page (Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah)
Date: 10/12/24
Brief Description: Discusses perinatal audits in order to improve equity
Keywords/Main Subjects: Equity, perinatal mortality audit
Copyright: copyright JJ Erwich & Jess Page ©2024
Slides: View / download (Erwich), View / download (Page)
Jan Jaap Erwich
Professor Erwich is head of obstetrics at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, and an expert obstetrician with a focus on prevention of perinatal mortality and parent care. He was the first director of a program for nationwide implementation of perinatal audits in all obstetric units in the Netherlands, is a member of several national committees for improvement of obstetric care and was, as past chair of the International Stillbirth Alliance, the co-organizer of the biannual ISA-ISPID conference in Amsterdam in 2014. His PhD research was on placental arachidonic acid metabolism, and he conducted a postdoctoral project on embryonic and fetal growth in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2000, he has participated in large projects on stillbirth, diagnostic work-up, placental pathology and methodological development of perinatal audit and quality of obstetric care. He is still active in clinical obstetric care and chaired the hospital’s serious adverse events committee. He is very fortunate to be the father of two healthy boys, which continuously motivates him to take care of parents who have lost a child.
Jessica Page
Dr. Page completed medical school at Oregon Health and Science University after earning her degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University. She performed her OB/GYN residency training and Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at the University of Utah. Dr. Page is board certified in OB/GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is an Assistant Professor at Intermountain Healthcare and the University of Utah and a member of its Stillbirth Research Program; her research interests include stillbirth and placental insufficiency. She also serves as the Medical Director for Women and Newborn Research at Intermountain Health. Dr. Page feels privileged to work with women and their families through complex pregnancies and deliveries.
