Fri November 2, 2018
Doc Stories: Giving Birth in America: California
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at Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA
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Director Clancy McCarty and Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns are expected to attend!
Giving Birth in America is a documentary series that examines some of the reasons for the alarming current statistics about maternal mortality rates in the US. The series is presented by Every Mother Counts, a non-profit founded by Christy Turlington Burns dedicated to making childbirth safe for women everywhere. This fifth and most recent episode, California, focuses on Dr. Cristina Gamboa, an OB-GYN in Watsonville who provides pre-natal health care to an immigrant farmworker from Mexico with a high-risk pregnancy. The screening will be followed by an in-depth discussion with McCarty, Dr. Gamboa, and midwife Kim Q. Dau, CNM, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP Education Program at UCSF School of Nursing.
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Giving Birth in America is a documentary series that examines some of the reasons for the alarming current statistics about maternal mortality rates in the US. The series is presented by Every Mother Counts, a non-profit founded by Christy Turlington Burns dedicated to making childbirth safe for women everywhere. This fifth and most recent episode, California, focuses on Dr. Cristina Gamboa, an OB-GYN in Watsonville who provides pre-natal health care to an immigrant farmworker from Mexico with a high-risk pregnancy. The screening will be followed by an in-depth discussion with McCarty, Dr. Gamboa, and midwife Kim Q. Dau, CNM, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP Education Program at UCSF School of Nursing.
Director Clancy McCarty and Every Mother Counts founder Christy Turlington Burns are expected to attend!
Giving Birth in America is a documentary series that examines some of the reasons for the alarming current statistics about maternal mortality rates in the US. The series is presented by Every Mother Counts, a non-profit founded by Christy Turlington Burns dedicated to making childbirth safe for women everywhere. This fifth and most recent episode, California, focuses on Dr. Cristina Gamboa, an OB-GYN in Watsonville who provides pre-natal health care to an immigrant farmworker from Mexico with a high-risk pregnancy. The screening will be followed by an in-depth discussion with McCarty, Dr. Gamboa, and midwife Kim Q. Dau, CNM, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP Education Program at UCSF School of Nursing.
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Giving Birth in America is a documentary series that examines some of the reasons for the alarming current statistics about maternal mortality rates in the US. The series is presented by Every Mother Counts, a non-profit founded by Christy Turlington Burns dedicated to making childbirth safe for women everywhere. This fifth and most recent episode, California, focuses on Dr. Cristina Gamboa, an OB-GYN in Watsonville who provides pre-natal health care to an immigrant farmworker from Mexico with a high-risk pregnancy. The screening will be followed by an in-depth discussion with McCarty, Dr. Gamboa, and midwife Kim Q. Dau, CNM, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP Education Program at UCSF School of Nursing.
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Phyllis Wattis Theater at SFMOMA
151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
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