Decision making around timing of birth

Join the Maternity and newborn learning health network to hear from Dr Stefan Kane speaking on decision making around timing of birth.

Decisions about timing of birth are based on balancing the health benefits to mothers and babies with any risk factors. There is increasing awareness that using a framework of shared decision making is most effective in achieving the provision of safe, respectful, person-centred care.

Dr Stefan Kane will explore what shared decision making is and isn’t, and discuss principles that can be applied by clinicians and women and their families/carers in maternity care, using timing of birth as an example.

Presenter

Dr Stefan C. Kane
MBBS BA BMedSc PhD FRANZCOG CMFM DDU(O&G)
Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist Obstetrician and Director of Maternity Services (Medical) | The Royal Women’s Hospital
Acting Director – Department of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor | The University of Melbourne | Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Clinical Lead | Preterm Birth | Safer Care Victoria
President | Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand