Opening Keynote - Building Collaborative Relationships
keynote address
DATE: Thursday, November 7th
TIME: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FACULTY: Nicola Pemberton, MD, FACOG
Building strong partnerships between midwives and doctors is essential for optimal maternity care. This session will explore practical strategies to enhance collaboration, including effective communication, mutual respect, joint training, shared decision-making, trust building, supportive leadership, and patient involvement. By implementing these strategies, healthcare providers can create a collaborative environment that prioritizes patient-centered care and improves outcomes.
Faculty
Nicola Pemberton, MD, FACOG
Nicola Pemberton, MD, FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist at Artemis OB/GYN in Union, New Jersey. She is the medical director of Artemis OB/GYN and The Birth Center of New Jersey. She specializes in obstetrics, reproductive endocrinology, and benign adult and adolescent gynecology.
Dr. Pemberton has been featured in the NY Times Metro section as well as CBS Evening News, NJ News 12, Cosmopolitian.com, and a panelist for Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Annual Women's Day conference. If you ever want to see this OB/GYN in action, you can see her deliver a baby on the Netflix special documentary, Sex: Explained (the Childbirth episode).
Dr. Pemberton completed her undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Miami in Florida before moving to the West Indies for two years to attend the St. George’s University School of Medicine in True Blue, Grenada. For her third year of medical school, she did clinical rotations in England, including neuroscience selective in the Czech Republic.
She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey, where she was recognized for her resident teaching and given a faculty position at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, where she also served as a clinical assistant professor at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.
