Vocational training & certificates
- 2020 Promotion zum Dr. rer. medic.
- 2013 Completed the study of medicinal pedagogic (degree) at the Charité, Berlin
- 1997 Midwifery exam
Professional career
- Since 10/2017: Scientific staff member at the Institute for Health and Nursing Sciences, Halle, working on the multicentred clinical study „BE-UP“: Effect of the birth environment on the mode of birth and the well-being of women at the time of birth: a randomised controlled study (RCT)
- 04/2017 - 03/2018: Participation in the Research Workshop: Reconstructive Social Research: Documentary Methods, Prof. Iris Nentwig-Gesemann, Alice-Salomon-Hochschule, Berlin
- Since 11/2016: Member of the editorial staff of the portal www.familienplanung.de run by the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA)
- 04-06/2016: Course lecturer in Midwifery at the EHB (Protestant University of Applied Science, Berlin))
- 06/2015 - 03/2018: Participation in the doctoral program „Particpation as an objective for care/nursing and therapy“ carried out by the International Graduated Academy (InGrA) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Since 04/2015: Doctoral student at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Health and Nursing Sciences. Doctoral advisors: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Meyer, Dr. Gertrud Ayerle. Title of the thesis: “Fear before the birth: Needs and wishes of pregnant women in Germany and the perspective of midwives – a qualitative reconstructive study” („Angst vor der Geburt: Bedürfnisse und Wünsche schwangerer Frauen in Deutschland und die Perspektive von Hebammen – eine qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie“).
- 01/2015 – 03/2016: Guest lecturer on midwifery science in the course for midwifery at EHB, funded by a grant from the Berlin Program to support equal opportunities for women in research and teaching (BCP) at the Protestant University of Applied Science Berlin (EHB).
- 08/2013 – 12/2014: Course lecturer in Midwifery at the EHB (Protestant University of Applied Science, Berlin))
- 08/2013 – 12/2014: Teacher of midwifery at the Charité’s Health Academy, training sector Midwifery
- 1997 – 2008: Midwives in the delivery room (rotating to postnatal ward and pregnancy counseling), DRK Klinikum Westend, Berlin
- 1999 – 2008: Freelance work (pregnancy counseling, birth preparation, postnatal care, breastfeeding counseling)
Research project
- Effect of the birth environment on the mode of birth and the well-being of women at the time of birth: a randomised controlled study (RCT), “BE-UP”
Memberships
- German Midwives Association (Deutscher Hebammenverband (DHV e.V.))
- German Society of Midwife Science (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hebammenwissenschaft (DGHWi e.V.))
- German Network of Evidence-based Medicine (Deutsches Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin (DNebM e.V.))
- Work group „Women’s Health in Medicine, Psychotherapy and Society“ (Frauengesundheit in Medizin, Psychotherapie und Gesellschaft (AKF e.V.))
- German Society for Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für psychosomatische Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe (DGPFG e.V.))
Prizes and awards
- 05/2014: 2nd Poster prize, 43rd Annual Conference of the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGPFG)
- 02/2016: Research grant from the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGPFG)
Special interests
- Since 11/2016 Management of the midwifery panel in the Working Group on Women‘ s Health in Medicine, Psychotherapy, and Society (AKF)
- 09/2011 - 12/2017 Member of the interdisciplinary panel „Life phase becoming parents“ / Working Group on Women‘ s Health in Medicine, Psychotherapy, and Society (AKF)“ (from 2012 to 2017 mandated by the German Society of Midwifery Science (DGHWi)
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