Dear Rachel
Thank you for this wonderful news - and many congratulations to Ellen Blix we are all very proud of her.
Judi Brown
Director
International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
The Hague
Netherlands
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Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 4:31 AM
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Subject: New doctorate in Norway
I am afraid Ellen Blix is too busy preparing for Christmas at home in
Hammerfest, and far too polite to sing her own praises, so I am writing to
tell everyone on this list who may not already know, that she has been
awarded her doctorate from the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg,
Sweden after an impressive defense of her dissertation in Tromsų, Norway, on
Tuesday 19 December. This was the first time a doctoral candidate from
Nordic had held their viva somewhere else, and it was a truly fitting
occasion for such a precedent, since so many of the people involved in
Ellen's work are from Northern Norway.
Not many midwives have had the satisfaction of seeing their published work
actually be influential in changing policy, and certainly not work done so
early in their research careers, but we in Norway have Ellen and her
co-authors to thank for the revised guidelines now in effect, in which
routine doorstep CTGs are no longer recommended for healthy women with
normal pregnancies. I believe the revised UK NICE guidelines also
acknowledged the systematic review by Blix et al, of studies on the labor
admission test, that comprises the fourth of five published papers to come
out of her doctoral research.
Another Norwegian midwife, Eva Tegnander of Trondheim, also got her PhD this
year, on detection of heart defects on routine scanning, for a grand total
of three midwives with doctoral degrees (Gunnhild Blaaka was the first),
none of them from the largest city, Oslo. Hopefully that will change soon
too.
Enough crowing for one post - but this was too good a chance to let slip by.
Cheers
Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway
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