Program Presenters
Mark Beaves
Mark is the Head of Quality Assurance Programs at RANZCOG. He has been the Manager of FSEP since its inception in 2003. Mark coordinates the ongoing strategy, research, development, and delivery of the FSEP suite of educational resources. He lectures and writes on fetal surveillance across Australia, New Zealand and internationally.
He has 25 years of experience in performing ultrasound and caring for women with high-risk pregnancies. Mark’s critical care training and Bachelor of Education (Studies) complement his 40 years of clinical nursing and midwifery experience.
Allison Carleton
Allison is an experienced nurse and midwife, working across maternity services but predominately in the tertiary birthing suite of the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She has always held a passion for education, and loves being able to teach and share her knowledge in real time on the floor. Allison brings this passion to her role as an FSEP educator with the goal to improve clinician knowledge and understanding as well as outcomes for parents and babies.
Allison Thomas
Alli has over 25 years of experience in midwifery, predominantly working within the speciality field of high-risk pregnancies and genetic counselling.
She currently works at Monash IVF and Ultrasound. Alli has been a clinical educator for the RANZCOG FSEP for over 15 years.
Catherine Lancaster
Catherine has extensive experience in all areas of midwifery practice. Catherine has been involved in managing maternity units that cover all areas of practice. These positions required a “hands on” clinical approach and a focus on policy and procedure, to ensure the implementation of best practice guidelines.
In line with this focus, Catherine is committed to the implementation of the RANZCOG IFS Clinical Guideline through the FSEP to improve maternal and fetal outcomes.
Dawn Sherwood
Dawn has over 30 years’ experience working in high and low-risk birth surroundings as a clinical midwife. Dawn is passionate about making a difference in outcomes for women and their babies.
Dawn currently works as an Associate Unit Manager/Clinical Midwife at Monash Health Dandenong and as a midwife delivering fetal monitoring/ultrasound.
Fiona Kane
Fiona has 20 years’ experience working as a midwife across various breadths of midwifery in both Ireland and Australia. Currently she works as a midwifery lecturer at The University of Notre Dame, Perth. Fiona holds a MSc Degree from Trinity College, Dublin.
Her professional interests lie around obstetric emergencies, exercise in pregnancy, obesity in pregnancy and midwifery education.
Isabelle Eadie
Izzy completed her midwifery training in the UK in 2003 but has worked predominantly in the intrapartum setting in tertiary units in New Zealand. For many years she worked as a clinical midwife manager on the Labour & Birthing Unit at Auckland Hospital. Izzy recently worked as a midwifery lecturer at AUT in Auckland and now Izzy’s work time is divided between Auckland Hospital, FSEP and occasionally providing training support for a medical supplier.
Teaching has always been Izzy’s passion and she says her favourite aspect of facilitating fetal surveillance education is when participants have those “light bulb” moments.
Jackie Harrington
Jackie has extensive midwifery experience, practicing for 15 years in various tertiary units in the UK; including the prestigious Rosie Maternity unit Cambridge. Since moving to Australia in 2004 she has worked as a Clinical Educator for Monash undergraduates and held the position of Midwifery Educator at Peninsula Health, Frankston for 20 years. She is a skilled clinician having worked in both low and high-risk settings now for over 35 years. Like all the FSEP Clinical Educators, Jackie is passionate about improving outcomes for mothers and babies.
Jennifer D’Arcy
Jen has over 18 years of experience working in all areas of maternity care. For the past 16 years, she has worked at the University Hospital Geelong as a clinical educator working with undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery students. Jen has completed additional training in Teaching and Assessment and works as a senior clinical lecturer for Deakin University.
Jen is passionate about striving to achieve the best outcomes for women and babies through education and empowering others to achieve the same.
Lauren Dunne
Lauren has been a midwife for over 12 years working predominantly in birth suite, fetal monitoring and high-risk caseload in Darwin, Northern Territory.
She currently works in Western Health as an Associate Midwifery Unit Manager at Joan Kirner W+C birthing and Maternity Assessment Unit.
Lisa Artico
Lisa has over 25 years of clinical midwifery experience, working with all risk pregnancies in the public and private sector during the Antenatal and Intrapartum period. Her interests include high risk and complex pregnancies, including fetal surveillance.
Lisa currently works at the Peninsula University Hospital as an Associate Midwifery Unit Manager. She is passionate about improving and achieving the best and safest outcomes for women and their babies.
Mark Benson
Mark has over 25 years of clinical midwifery experience, predominantly as an AMUM in the Birthing Suites at University Hospital Geelong. He has also taught sessionally at Deakin University Waterfront for several years, tutoring and assessing both undergraduate nursing and midwifery students, followed by a locum position at Bacchus Marsh Hospital and Epworth Hospital Geelong.
He is passionate about education, especially the importance of anatomy and physiology in the context of assessing and understanding the CTG, and in the importance of sharing fetal surveillance knowledge in the setting of current clinical experience. Mark believes strongly in the promotion of safe care for mothers and babies, and improved knowledge and cognition for midwifery and obstetric staff alike.
Nadia Bardien
Nadia is a registered nurse, midwife, the past Manager of Perinatal Services, and the Manager of Birthing Services at the Mercy Hospital for Women. She is an experienced and skilled clinician, having worked across the breadth of midwifery services from low-risk birthing centres to tertiary hospital settings in South Africa and Australia. She has over 15 years of experience in fetal surveillance and the care of women with high-risk pregnancies. She is an active researcher and holds a Master’s degree from La Trobe University. Her research interests include late onset growth restriction and fetal Doppler measurements. Worked at Western Health as a clinical midwife consultant across fetal diagnostic services.
Nadia currently works at Joan Kirner Hospital as the midwifery manager of the Maternity Assessment Centre.
Sarah Hay
Sarah is a registered nurse and midwife with more than 25 years’ experience. She has worked across a range of levels of risk and models of care and is passionate about high quality midwifery care for all women, in particular those with complex pregnancies.
Sarah is currently working as a senior midwifery lecturer in Western Australia, alongside her fetal surveillance educator role, where her aim is to support clinicians to improve outcomes for women and their babies. Sarah has a PhD and is an active researcher in the midwifery space.