Meet the Experts
GynZones panel of clinical experts host regular webinars and share the latest knowledge from their field of expertise.
Stay tuned for upcoming sessions via the signup-link below, or revisit recorded webinars in our video library
GynZone Live proudly presents
Peggy Seehafer
Midwife and Anthropologist
Peggy has 30 years of experience in suturing and evaluating healing in the perineum after vaginal births.
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Nicola Adanna Okeahialam
Urogynaecology Clinical Research Fellow, Croydon University Hospital, UK
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Susanne Axelsen
Urogynecologist PhD
Urinary incontinence during pregnancy and after birth: How do we help women best?
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Dianne Garland
Midwife, FRCM SRN RM ADM PGCEA MSc
Research supporting waterbirth
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Karl Møller Bek
Urogynecologist PhD
40 years’ experience in anal sphincter reconstruction. The story of early secondary repair of 3rd and 4th degree tears at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark
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Malin Edqvist
Researcher, Senior Midwife, PhD
Reducing severe perineal trauma: The effect of two midwives during the second stage of labour
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Tine Engberg Damsgaard
Professor, consultant plastic surgeon
Reconstructive surgeries in the vulva and perineum
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Ulla Due
Physiotherapist PhD
Recovering from major perineal trauma: The physiotherapist's tips and tricks
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Marianne Glavind-Kristensen
Urogynecologist PhD and senior consultant
Suturing of injuries to the anal sphincter: practice and current evidence
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Ditte Gommesen
Midwife PhD
Vaginal Birth and Perineal Trauma: Risk for incontinence 12 months after birth.
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Hilary Schlinger
CNM, CPM (ret), MS, RN, researcher, instructor, and midwifery program director
Hilary will share her experiences and clinical tips from 29 years of practice, attending approximately 1000 home and birth center births.
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Malene Hegenberger
Midwife and inventor
Optimal working conditions during perineal repair - how can we improve?
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Hanna Jangö
Consultant Obstetrician
Birth after previous OASI
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Sara Kindberg
Midwife PhD
Are you comfortable with your stitches? Screening all mothers after vaginal birth: healing and assessment of primary perineal repair outcomes
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Amalie Sofie Kolbæk
Midwife
The birth pool as a work station and a medical device. Development and clinical use of Fjordblink Birth Pools
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Anne Mette Tonning
Midwife
Experiences with birth of the placenta in water
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Hanna Ulfsdottir
Midwife PhD
Women’s experiences of water birth compared with conventional uncomplicated births.
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Sophia Brismar Wendel
Researcher and senior consultant
Lateral Episiotomy or Not in Vacuum Assisted Delivery in Non-parous Women (EVA), Presentation of the on-going randomized trial in Sweden
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Jannik Skriver Jensen
Intensive Care Nurse and International Sales Manager at Medclair AB
Nitrous Oxide for pain relief during labour and post partum repairs
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Åsa Henning Waldum
Research Midwife
Intrapartum pudendal nerve block and childbirth experience in primiparous women
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