Date
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 | 8-9 PM
SPEAKERS
Dr. Jon Barrett, M.B.Bch., FRCOG, MD, FRCSC
Dr. Jon Barrett is the head of the maternal-fetal medicine program at Sunnybrook. In addition to providing general prenatal and obstetrical care, he also specializes in the care of women with high-risk twin and other multiple pregnancies. He is the founder and chair of the Southern Ontario Obstetric Network and of the Alliance for the Prevention of Pre-term Birth and Stillbirth in Ontario.
Dr. Tali Bogler, MD, CCFP, MScCH
Dr. Tali Bogler is an academic family physician and practices low-risk obstetrics at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is the chair of the Family Medicine Obstetrics Program at St. Michael’s Hospital. She completed a Master’s of Science in Community Health in Family and Community Medicine at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, she published an interim visit schedule for pregnant women and children and launched a virtual platform @PandemicPregnancyGuide to provide reliable and up-to-date medical information on pregnancy during COVID-19, as well as to form a community for expecting parents. The account reached 7,000 followers in less than 2 weeks, attesting to the many questions expecting parents have during these uncertain times and the need for reliable medical information.
Rivky Meldung, RM
Rivky is a registered midwife at Uptown Midwives and Family Wellness with delivery privileges at North York General Hospital. Rivky worked for three years as a midwife in the UK after graduating with a BSc in Midwifery, Hons. in 2003. After immigrating to Canada, Rivky completed the International Midwifery Pre-registration Program and has been working as a midwife in Toronto since 2009. In August 2018, Rivky launched a new midwifery practice with four of her colleagues in the Bathurst and Lawrence area. Serving a diverse population of clients, this practice integrates a holistic family wellness team including chiropractic, psychotherapy, physiotherapy, and lactation consulting.
Partnering with the Ontario government, Rivky has started offering free reproductive health classes. Topics covered are sexual health, pelvic floor health, family planning, and post-partum mood disorders.
When she’s not delivering other people’s babies, Rivky is busy with her own family, including five energetic children. She’s a trusted advisor in matters of health and reproduction in her orthodox Jewish community.
Dr. Rachel Spitzer, MD, MPH, FRCSC
Rachel Spitzer, MD, MPH, FRCS(C) grew up in Montreal and Toronto, and obtained her BSc at McGill University. Subsequently, she attended McMaster University medical school in Hamilton, from where she returned to Toronto to pursue residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto. This was followed by fellowship training at The Hospital for Sick Children in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology where her clinical and research interests focus on complex contraception and adolescent pregnancy. Rachel went on to obtain her Master’s in Public Health at Harvard University in 2007/2008 with a concentration in international health and an interdisciplinary concentration in women and gender health. Rachel returned to Toronto as assistant professor in the Department of ObGyn at the University of Toronto in the summer of 2008, and was faculty lead for global health in the undergraduate medical program from 2011-2016. She became Vice-Chair of Global Health in the department of ObGyn in 2014. In 2015, she was promoted to associate professor in the department. Rachel is cross-appointed to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T. She combines the clinical practice of general and pediatric and adolescent Obstetrics and Gynecology with the practice and teaching of global women’s health.