Program

Day 1 - Saturday, 1 February 2020

Itqan Simulation Centre, Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City


Time

Activity

Speaker

07.00 - 08.00 

Registration, Coffee & Networking

08.00 - 08.05

Reading from the Holy Qur’an

Dr. Bader Al Kurdi

Consultant Neonatologist, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

08.05 - 08.15

Welcome Message from the Executive Director of Nursing, WWRC

Ms. Haila Swaid Salim

Executive Director of Nursing, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

08.15 - 08.20

Opening Remarks from the Chief Nursing Officer

Dr. Nicola Ryley

Chief Nursing Officer, HMC, Doha, Qatar

08.20 - 08.35

Keynote Address: Developing Midwifery in Qatar

Ms. Salwa KH SH Alrawaili

Director of Nursing, WWRC-ACC, Doha, Qatar

08.35 - 09.05

Keynote Address: Developing Nursing and Midwifery Research Capacity Through Partnership Working

Dame Professor Tina Lavender

Director of the Centre for Global Women's Health at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom

09.05 - 09.45

Keynote Address: Journey of Midwifery Education in Oman

Ms. Aisha Salim Rashid Al-Mamari

Academic Coordinator, Midwifery Program, Higher Institute of Health Specialities for the Ministry of Health, Oman

09.45 - 10.00

Panel Discussion

Ms. Sibongile Marufu

Clinical Midwife Specialist, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

10.00 - 10.15

Break

10.15 - 10.55

MOPH strategy/perspective

Dr. Najat Khenyab

Senior Consultant, Obstetrics-Gynecology, WWRC; NHS National Lead for Healthy Women Leading to Healthy Pregnancies, MOPH, Doha, Qatar

10.55 - 11.35

Enhancing Perinatal Mental Health: strategies, interventions and opportunities for collaborative multidisciplinary women and family centered care in Qatar

Dr. Felice Watts

Division Chief, Adult Psychiatry for Women's Mental Health, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar

11.35 - 12.00

What is Infant Mental Health and why is it Important?

Dr. Erin Valentine

Clinical Psychologist in Women's Mental Health and Developmental Pediatrics, Doha, Qatar

12.00 - 12.15

Panel Discussion

John Paul Ben Silang

Nurse-Midwife Research Scientist, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch, Networking, Prayer Time and Movement Time

Concurrent Sessions

13.15 - 16.00

Concurrent Session A

Venue: Main Theatre

Women’s Health

Concurrent Session B

Venue: First floor

Newborn Care

Session introduction:

Rohini Castillon,
Nurse Educator, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

Session introduction:

Ma. Ana Princess Tisbe Villa
Nurse Educator, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

Shisha (waterpipe) use and its effects on women’s health, their pregnancy and their child’s wellbeing,
Ms. Abi Johnson

Association of hypothyroidism with preterm births in Gulf countries.
Ms. Zeena Martis

A pain free hospital stay with uterine artery embolization -implementation of a patient controlled analgesia.
Ms. Bincey John

Management of a suspected outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a neonatal intensive care unit in Qatar.
Dr. Hawabibee

Effect of therapeutic non-thermal ultrasound on post-partum symptomatic breast engorgement.
Ms. Purnima PSCB Patil

The clinically advanced practice (CAP) nurses: a neonatal vascular access team.
Ms. Krisha LP Garcia

Redesigning the workflow to reduce overcrowding in tertiary maternity emergency. Ms. Alia Ahmed Serour

Maternal stress and perceived support among mothers of premature infants in the NICU.
Ms. Katherine De Jesus Mariano

Promoting early detection of blood group among pregnant women.
Ms. Amal Alobaidli

Neonatal simulation program: a 3 years educational journey.
Dr. Mohammad Bayoumi

Panel discussion / Q&A Facilitator:

Rohini Castillon, Nurse Educator, WWRC, Doha, Qatar

Panel discussion / Q&A Facilitator:

Ms. Ma. Ana Princess Tisbe Villa

Nurse Educator, WWRC, Doha, Qatar