Title: Senior Administrative Business Manager
Program: Midwifery
Location: Vancouver
What does it mean to you to help train and graduate more health professionals for patients and communities across B.C.?
I have been with the Midwifery program since 2010 and have had the privilege of supporting our students all the way through — from the application stage straight through to graduation. As a staff member, I quickly became a huge advocate for this important and necessary profession and have been heartened by the growth in opportunity for new families to access midwifery care in more communities throughout the province and the world. The dedication of our faculty, preceptors, staff and clinical faculty to providing the best possible education for our students has never failed to impress and push me to do my very best to support our students through their journey to become midwives. This commitment to both educate and increase midwifery-assisted births is reflected in the substantial growth and demand for more midwives in the province. When I started with the program, only around 10 per cent of all births in the province were assisted by midwives. Today, that number has increased to 28 per cent. This for me is the definition of transforming health in B.C.