2010 CIMS Forum
2009 CIMS Forum Presentations Now Available for Download
2008 CIMS Forum Presentations Now Available for Download
CIMS Forum Cancellation Policy

2010 Mother-Friendly Childbirth Forum & Annual Meeting
Feb. 26-27 | The Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin – Town Lake | Austin, Texas

Each year, the CIMS Forum attracts expert faculty from prestigious universities and the nation’s leading childbirth advocacy organizations who present the most up-to-date maternity care research to healthcare providers, maternal-child health leaders, and passionate childbirth advocates who are eager to bring evidence-based maternity care practices back to their communities.  The information that Forum attendees gain provides an invaluable boost to their efforts to promote healthy birth practices across the nation.

The 2010 Forum Program features:

• Acclaimed actress, filmmaker, family advocate and author Ricki Lake will address attendees at the 2010 CIMS Forum.  Lake, an integral figure in the birthing community since the 2007 debut of the documentary The Business of Being Born and subsequent projects that encourage childbearing women to become informed maternity care consumers, has traveled tirelessly around the United States to discuss the state of the birthing “industry” in an effort to demonstrate how all parents-to-be can benefit from taking a more active role in their birth experiences. To learn more about Ricki Lake and her birth advocacy work, please visit www.TheBusinessOfBeingBorn.com and/or www.MyBestBirth.com.
  
  
• Hear it first at the 2010 CIMS Forum!  Rima Jolivet, Associate Director of Programs at Childbirth Connection, will present recommendations for achieving “2020 Vision for a High Quality, High Value Maternity Care System” from Childbirth Connection’s 90th Anniversary Symposium’s Blueprint for Action, developed through concerted multi-stakeholder efforts to provide actionable recommendations for improvement in 11 critical focus areas, in order to answer the fundamental question, “Who needs to do what, to, for, and with whom to improve the quality of maternity care over the next five years?”
  
  
• Author and Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), Judy Norsigian.  A renowned leader in efforts to improve women’s health, Norsigian has lectured across the country in support of the newest OBOS publication, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth and has taken an active role in the recent legislative efforts to improve healthcare for women and families.
  
  
• The iconic Penny Simkin, PT whose contributions to the childbirth literature, including Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn: The Complete Guide, When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women, and A Simple Guide to Having a Baby, have guided and inspired countless childbearing women and maternity care providers.
  
  
• Nancy Lowe, CNM, PhD, FACNM, FAAN, editor of AWHONN’s Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing.  Lowe will present a U.S. perspective on maternity care that explores the opportunity for fundamental change through national healthcare reform initiatives.
  
  
• Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Michael Klein, Raymond De Vries, Henci Goer, Amy Romano, Susan Jenkins, Lisa Summers, and many more!

Additional program details to be announced soon.  Exhibiting opportunities are extremely limed –reserve your exhibit space today!

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Hotel Information The Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin – Town Lake 111 Cesar Chavez at Congress Austin, TX  78701 Reservations: 1-800-395-7046 Book Online at http://www.radisson.com/austintx Please use the promo code ‘CIMSAF’ to receive the group rate of $139/night plus applicable taxes. This rate is available until Jan. 25, 2010, or until the room block is sold out. The Radisson Hotel & Suites Austin – Town Lake offers an ideal downtown location overlooking scenic Town Lake and the Congress Avenue Bridge bats. We’re a short walk to Austin’s unique shopping, restaurant and entertainment districts in “The Live Music Capital of the World” where we “Keep Austin Weird” every day! Enjoy high-speed Internet, Sleep Number beds, a large outdoor swimming pool, fitness center, miles of hike/bike trails, our own Starbucks coffee store and T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant.	2010 CIMS Forum Information: Preliminary Program Sponsorship & Advertising Opportunities CIMS Forum Scholarship Fund – give the gift of continuing education! Registration Rates: (registration to open soon) Full Conference Registration: CIMS Member: $250 (early) / $275 (late) Non-Member: $275 (early) / $300 (late) CIMS ‘Lifetime’ Member: $225 Full Time Student: $225 Single-Day Conference Registration: CIMS Member: $125 (early) / $150 (late) Non-Member: $150 (early) / $175 (late) CIMS ‘Lifetime’ Member: $125 Full Time Student: $125
Continuing Education Thank you for allowing us to fulfill your continuing education needs. Nursing contact hours have been applied for through the Texas Nurses Association, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending. Application for contact hour credit has been applied for with the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA).	Travel Information Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) is a short 7 miles from the Radisson Hotel Downtown Austin. CIMS Forum attendees have a variety of ground transportation options for travel to/from the airport, including: Yellow Cab: (512) 452-9999 SuperShuttle: Austin direct number: (512) 258-3826; National number: 1-800-BLUE VAN (258-3826)
CIMS Forum Cancellation Policy CIMS cannot process conference registrations without proper payment.  All fees must be paid in US Dollars, and drawn on a US bank.  Cancellation requests must be received in writing no less than 21 days prior to the scheduled event.  Refunds, less a $50 administrative fee and Membership fees (if applicable), will be distributed only to individuals who cancel 21 days or more before the scheduled event.  No refunds will be distributed for cancellation requests made within 21 days of the scheduled event.  Please notify CIMS of any name changes or substitute registrations at least 15 days in advance of the event.  Any funds transfer for substitutions must occur between the registrant and their replacement.  A $35 fee will be assessed on all returned checks.  Please send cancellation requests, questions or comments by e-mail to: [email protected].	What do attendees say about the CIMS Forum? “You are doing a magnificent job for CIMS and it was a great conference!! I know how much work it is, and you and your small staff did it spectacularly!” “Nice work pulling off a great meeting. I was so impressed by the breadth of speakers.” “Thank you for having the forum! It was fantastic.” “As always, you are a class act and provide an event reflecting the same for the attendees.”

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2009 Mother-Friendly Childbirth Forum: One Voice for Mother-Friendly Care
March 5-7 | The Handley Hotel & Resort | San Diego, CA

The 2009 CIMS Forum Program included 22 educational sessions spanning three days, March 5-7, in San Diego, CA. General session speakers included Maureen Corry, UCLA’s Dr. Michael Lu, Dr. Michele Lauria, Judith Lothian, the CDC’s Laurence Grummer-Strawn, Amy Romano, Phyllis Klaus and Robbie Davis-Floyd.

The following slide presentations from the 2009 Forum are now available for download:

• Transforming Maternity Care: We’re All In It Together (PDF) presented by Maureen Corry, MPH, executive director of Childbirth Connection
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Life-Course Perspective (PDF) presented by Michael C. Lu, MD, MS, MPH, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
• Creating Centers of Excellence in Birthing (PDF) presented by Michele R. Lauria, MD, MS, professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Radiology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
• New Mothers Speak Out (PDF) presented by Judith A. Lothian, RN, PhD, LCCE, FACCE, associate professor, Department of Nursing, Seton Hall University
• The State of Maternity Practices in the US: Are Hospitals Supporting Breastfeeding? (PDF) presented by Laurence Grummer-Strawn, MPA, MA, PhD, chief, Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
• Universal Hospitalization of Birthing Women: Do the Arguments Stand Up to Scrutiny? (PDF) presented by Amy M. Romano, MSN, CNM, nurse-midwife, Birth & Beyond Inc.

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2008 CIMS Forum Presentations

• The Perfect Storm (PDF) presented by Charles Mahan, MD
• The Challenge of the Rising Cesarean Rate to Mother-Friendly Care (PDF) presented by Eugene Declercq, PhD, MBA

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CIMS Forum Cancellation Policy
CIMS cannot process conference registrations without proper payment.  All fees must be paid in US Dollars, and drawn on a US bank.  Cancellation requests must be received in writing no less than 21 days prior to the scheduled event.  Refunds, less a $50 administrative fee and Membership fees (if applicable), will be distributed only to individuals who cancel 21 days or more before the scheduled event.  No refunds will be distributed for cancellation requests made within 21 days of the scheduled event.  Please notify CIMS of any name changes or substitute registrations at least 15 days in advance of the event.  Any funds transfer for substitutions must occur between the registrant and their replacement.  A $35 fee will be assessed on all returned checks.  Please send cancellation requests, questions or comments by e-mail to: [email protected]

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