25th Anniversary Conference

We are honoured to have speakers from all across the world who work closely with newborn infants and their families. They will each share a fascinating insight into the unique child-rearing practices in their country and how they use the NBAS and NBO to support parent-baby relationships in their culture. We are delighted Dr J Kevin Nugent, Director of the Brazelton Institute, USA will give our closing message for the day.

We are delighted to begin announcing our speakers….

Mamikie Rumo: Mamikie is an Early Childhood Community Practitioner at the Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mamikie is a single mother to a teen daughter, and loves working in her community to support mothers and babies. Mamikie was part of the first cohort of lay counsellors trained as NBO practitioners. Mamikie is also trained in an array of perinatal and infant mental health interventions, including the Ububele Home Visiting Project, the International Child Development Programme and Booksharing.

 

 

Nicki Dawson: Nicki is a counselling psychologist and NBO trainer from South Africa. She currently heads up the parent-infant programmes Ububele Educational and Psychotherapy Trust, providing infant and perinatal mental health services to economically disadvantaged families. Nicki recently completed her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand, investigating responsive infant care in adverse and culturally diverse contexts. As an adoptive mother, Nicki is passionate about supporting families in the early years.

 

 

Mariko Iwayama: Mariko is a clinical psychologist specialising in perinatal psychology and is based in Southern Japan. Mariko has worked in 3 NICUs across Japan and currently works at the Kyushu University Hospital in the city of Fukuoka providing parent-child relationship support and developmental follow-up for babies.  Mariko is trained in the NBAS, NBO and Touchpoints. She became one of 3 NBO trainers in Japan and helped set up the Japanese NBO training site in 2016. nbo-japan.com

 

 

 

Dr. Lise C. Johnson: Lise is Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at Harvard Medical School. For the past 20 years she has worked as a newborn hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA, where she was medical director of Well Newborn Care from 2001 through 2018. Lise is associate director of the Brazelton Institute and co-authored the Newborn Behavioural Observations Manual.

Brazelton Institute at Boston Children’s Hospital

 

 

Ahmad (Wawan) Suryawan: Wawan is a Consultant Paediatrician specialising in Child Development and social paediatrics. He is also an Associate Professor of Child Health affiliated with Soetomo Hospital and Airlangga University. Wawan lives in Surabaya, Indonesia. He trained in Newborn Behavioral Observations in 2017 and now uses it enthusiastically in child health services as well as newborn developmental monitoring. He is currently active in disseminating NBO knowledge to paediatric colleagues in Indonesia.

 

 

Camilla Ejlertsen: Camilla is a registered nurse working in the Obstetric Department in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently undertaking a PhD study developing and testing an intervention at the obstetric department called ‘Look- your baby is talking to you’. The intervention aims to lower the prevalence of post-partum depression symptoms among vulnerable mothers using the NBO to enhance healthy early relationship formation between parents and infant. Camilla also has an MSc in Public Health and is a busy mother to two young children.

 

 

Campbell Paul:

Assoc. Prof. Campbell Paul is a Consultant Infant Psychiatrist at the Royal Children’s and Royal Women’s Hospitals Melbourne and Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. With colleagues at the University of Melbourne he has established and delivered postgraduate courses in Infant and Parent Mental Health since 1992. These courses developed out of a longstanding experience in paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry and infant-parent psychotherapy.  He has a special interest in the understanding of the inner world of the baby, particularly as it informs therapeutic work with infants and their parents.  He helped establish the Australian training centre for the Newborn Behavioural Observations at the Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne.  He has been a member of the World Association for Infant Mental Health for many years and is currently President of WAIMH.

 

 

Susan Nicolson: Susan is a medical doctor and infant mental health clinician at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Susan practises and advocates for integrated infant and perinatal mental health support for families. She is a master trainer in the Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) system and has worked with Ububele psychotherapy trust in South Africa and Mallee District Aboriginal Service in Australia. She was lead researcher in a recently published trial to test the NBO in an at-risk population.

Payments: All bookings made prior to this event must be paid in full to guarantee registration.  Email confirmation will be sent.

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• More than 4 weeks but less than 6 months before the date of the event: 75% of the fee paid by delegate
• 4 weeks or less prior to start of event: 100% of the delegate fee paid by delegate

All cancellations must be received by email to admin@brazelton.co.uk and sarah.lam@brazelton.co.uk

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If, due to Covid-19 government restrictions we are unable to hold this as a live event- we will make every effort to move the event online via an online platform such as Zoom. Delegates will be informed as soon as possible in this eventuality.

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Speakers: Views expressed by speakers are their own. Brazelton Centre UK cannot accept liability for advice given, or views expressed, by any speaker at the event or in any material provided to delegates.

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