Meet our panel of medical specialists

Associate Professor Mary Sidebotham is a registered midwife and is currently employed by Griffith University as the Program Director of Primary Maternity Care degree programs. She is a visiting Associate Professor at the Gold Coast University Hospital Queensland. Mary is the Deputy Editor of the Nurse Education in Practice Journal where she leads the midwifery section of the journal. She contributes to maintaining professional standards through her work as a member of the Midwifery Accreditation Committee for the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) , and as an assessor for the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal... read more »

Dr Kathleen Baird is a Midwifery Lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia and is the Director of Nursing and Midwifery Education, Women’s and Newborn Services, Gold Coast University Hospital. She is also joint director of the newly formed Centre for Women’s and Newborn Research, Gold Coast University Hospital and Menzies Health Institute Queensland. Kathleen is an educational program assessor for the Australian Midwifery Accreditation Council, and holds an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow with the University of the West of England... read more »