7th Contraception & Abortion in BC meeting

Dr. Elder Roberta Price, Coast Salish Snuneymuxw and Cowichan Nation

Elder Roberta Price is from the Coast Salish Snuneymuxw and Cowichan Nation. For over 30 years, Elder Roberta Price has actively shared her leadership, wisdom and teachings at UBC and throughout the Lower Mainland to assist both Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members to achieve improved outcomes in health care. She has been instrumental in helping to create shared spaces for both Indigenous and Western approaches to healing and health. Her ongoing involvement and leadership in research projects have been key to the continued work of decolonizing health care and creating cultural safety and equity for Indigenous patients.

Elder Glida Morgan, Tla’amin First Nation

Elder Glida Morgan is from the Tla'amin First Nation. Elder Glida is determined to bring healing light to our Indigenous People in her role as a front-line worker on Vancouver's Downtown East Side in the areas of Family violence, Mental Wellness & Women's Health. Elder Glida has explored ways in which culture can be integrated into the health care plans for Indigenous people. Performing at community events across the lower mainland; Elder Glida is involved in a group who provides medicine in the form of songs for patients in palliative care through singing & drumming Traditional songs. Emote

Natasha is the new VP Professional Practice, Quality and Safety, and Chief Nursing Executive in PHSA and the Chief Nursing Officer Advisor to the Ministry of Health.  Previous to these roles she was the NP Lead in PHSA.  Natasha graduated with her BScN from the University of Western Ontario, her MN/NP from the University of Toronto, and her doctorate from the University of Colorado.  Her current role focuses on informing policy and models of care for all nursing designations in BC.  She also continues to work part time in the Women's Health Centre and her current focus is women’s health that includes reproductive and sexual health care for women with disabilities and heart disease in women. She is adjunct faculty at both UBC and University of Victoria. She is passionate about being an NP and a nurse and the contribution nursing can make as leaders to improve the health care system in BC.

Erin Price Lindstrom is the Acting Director of Women’s, Maternal, and Early Child Health at the BC Ministry of Health. Her team of passionate and deeply committed staff work together and cross-ministry on a range of health system policy initiatives focused on advancing health equity and improving health and wellness for women, perinatal families, and young children in BC .

Prior to joining the Ministry in 2020, Erin provided clinical care for perinatal families as a Registered Midwife in several urban, rural, and rural-remote communities around the province since 2007, including most recently on Salt Spring Island. Erin is weeks away from completing a Masters Degree in Health Leadership through Royal Roads University, with a focus on policy innovation in the health sector. She continues to enjoy the pace of island living on Salt Spring with her husband and four children.

Unjali Malhotra, Medical Officer, Women's Health, completed her residency in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she created and completed a women's health residency program after family residency. Malhotra is the Founder of the UBC Women's Health Residency Program (for training family doctors in advanced women's health skills for delivery in rural and remote communities). She is the outgoing Medical Director of Options for Sexual Health BC (five years) and the outgoing Chair of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada's Canadian Foundation for Women's Health (two years). She also previously served on the Board of the Federation for Medical Women. She is an author and speaker for Continuing Medical Education both provincially and nationally. In her various roles, Malhotra has co-created provincial programs that are focused on advocacy, community support, and education as much as clinical services.

Informed Consent for Contraception:

https://www.fnha.ca/what-we-do/chief-medical-office/informed-consent-for-contraception

Download the Informed Consent for Contraception 

Ali Fuchshuber (she/her), MPH, MSN, RN (C)
Ali has recently graduated from her dual Masters degree at UBC where she focused her research on certified nursing scope of practice and women's health. Currently, she works as a STI/HIV Nurse Educator at BCCDC. Ali's career goal is to work at a policy level to increase equitable access to contraception, abortion, and sexual health services for people living in British Columbia, especially for underserved populations.

Renee Hall is a Clinical Associate Professor at UBC who has been working in the area of family planning in Vancouver for 20 years. She is the lead on the UBC long acting reversible contraceptive insertion training program. She is the medical director at Kelowna General Hospital’s Women’s Services clinic and works at the CARE program at BC Women’s Hospital, Everywomans Health Center, Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic and Willow Clinic.

Enav Zusman is a PhD student in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) who has been working with CART since 2019. Passionate about women’s health, Enav’s research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, perinatal epidemiology, reproductive health, and mental health during and after pregnancy. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, Enav obtained a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and MSc in Experimental Medicine from UBC and a BSc in Medical Sciences from Tel Aviv University (Israel). As a pharmacist, Enav plans to combine her clinical knowledge and experience with her research work to better support medication safety and effectiveness during pregnancy to improve patient care. Enav’s doctoral research is supported by a Killam Doctoral Scholarship.

Miranda Kelly (she/her) is Stό:lō and was raised in her home community of Soowahlie First Nation (near Chilliwack, BC). She has ties to Cowichan, Snuneymuxw, and Sumas First Nations through her Dad’s side, and mixed Russian, Scottish and Welch ancestry on her Mom’s side. Since 2007, she has held positions in Indigenous health research, planning, policy, education, engagement, and community care. Her love for supporting Indigenous women and families grew from her own experience of becoming a parent. After the birth of her second child, she was called to birth work. She practiced as a full spectrum doula with the ekw’i7tl Indigenous doula collective and served primarily Indigenous families in the Metro Vancouver area. Since February of 2021, Miranda has been humbled to hold the role of Director, Indigenous Women & Family Health with Vancouver Coastal Health.

Travis Salway (he/him) is a social epidemiologist who works to understand and improve the health of Two-Spirit, transgender, and queer populations. He is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, an Affiliated Researcher at the BC Centre for Disease Control, and a Research Scientist at the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity.

Zeba is a graduate student researcher and a Mitacs fellow at the University of British Columbia. As a newcomer to Canada herself, Zeba is interested in understanding how underserved groups, particularly newcomers and immigrants access healthcare in BC. She is a board member for Options for Sexual Health and is embedded in the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS) team.

Jurenka was born in Prague, and was raised in Winnipeg. Jurenka studied French literature and theatre, at UBC, and, after working for a few years in the theater scene, she returned to UBC, to the other side of campus, for sciences. She feels lucky to have studied in two very different fields. Jurenka graduated from UBC medical school in 1997, and from Family Practice Residency in 1999. She has worked in Youth Clinics and with the Sexual Assault Service since she began practice, and at Options, as medical director, since March 2020.

Cheryl Davies is the Chief Operating Officer, BC Women's Hospital + Health Centre, one of the largest maternity hospitals in Canada and the only facility in BC with a dedicated mandate of advancing the health of women, newborns and their families. Cheryl has over 30 years’ experience in women’s health as a nurse, educator and senior leader, in both community and hospital settings. She is a passionate advocate for gender equity and decolonizing our health system with Indigenous partners and people with lived and living experience for better health outcomes, access and experiences across the continuum of care.