Authors

Heidi V. Krowchuk, PhD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Nursing.  Her clinical expertise is in the area of parenting and family-centered well child care; her research focuses on improving health outcomes for vulnerable women and their children. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.

Dr Helena Priest is a chartered psychologist and research tutor on the Staffordshire University Clinical Psychology Doctorate, with an interest in qualitative research methods.

Dr. Hillary McBride received her PhD at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and is a speaker, author, and psychotherapist in Vancouver. 

Irene de Graaf obtained a doctorate at the university of Amsterdam in 1999 with a thesis entitled “ on first trimester Down syndrome screening”. She graduated as gynecologist in 2005. She worked for 7 years as a general gynecologist. In 2012 she switched to the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam to become a perinatologist. Her approach towards teaching resulted in an appointment as principal educator. Fields of interest are perinatology, pregnancy and psychiatry. She is a strong advocate of autonomy in childbirth and shared decision making.

Jaap van der Wal, PhD, is medical doctor and is now retired from the department of Anatomy and Embryology at the University of Maastricht, Holland. He worked as associate professor and later senior lecturer at various universities and schools in Holland. He also lectures on Medical Anthropology. In his research he specialized in the functional anatomy of locomotion and published about the functional architecture of connective tissue and fasciae as well as its (their) role in proprioception. “But my main passion”, he states, “still is the embryology.