HMC Ethics Forum | 2 Part Series - The Ethics of Perinatal Care: Mobilizing A New Obstetric Quality & Patient Safety Paradigm

Join us on the second Wednesday of January and February for the two part series, The Ethics of Perinatal Care: Mobilizing A New Obstetric Quality & Patient Safety Paradigm @ 12PM with Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG.

The purpose of this two-part virtual training series is to enhance clinicians’ practical knowledge, skills, and mindsets so they can embody a community-focused critical consciousness during the provision, training, and evaluation of hospital-based obstetric and perinatal care. This approach affirms, activates, and amplifies the power and potential of Black women and people—rather than framing Black reproducing bodies or Black births as pathological—across perinatal clinical ethics and theories of change.

Session 1: January 14th

Session 2: February 11th

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her), proudly stands as the Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist, Founding CEO, and Owner of Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, with nearly 30 years of supporting women, girls, and gender expansive people across the sexual, reproductive and perinatal life course. Her work interrogates and transforms quality and patient safety paradigms through application of participatory multilevel quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods and methodologies that simultaneously operationalize Black feminism, reproductive justice, and research justice, at the intersection of cultural humility and scientific rigor, also known as cultural rigor. As an improvement and implementation scientist activist, boarded certified "dissident and recovering" OBGYN, and applied epidemiologist grounded, she and her team developed the first and only validated Patient Reported Experience Measure of obstetric racism© (the PREM-OB Scale™ Suite), which is now available for implementation, spread, and scale as prevention and mitigation against obstetric racism. Dr. Scott is also the author of SACKRED Birth: Mobilizing A New Quality Paradigm in Obstetric Care, a vital call for prioritizing Black mothers’ expectations, expressions, and experiences in clinical practice, decision making, and care delivery using new quality norms and methodologies to amplify the humanity and power, not pathology, of Black reproducing bodies and Black births.