Judith Mercer, DNSc, CNM, FACNM
Dr. Mercer is a Clinical Professor at the University of Rhode Island, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University, and Research Scientist at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, RI. She is the former Director of the Nurse-Midwifery Program at Georgetown University and at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Mercer has a successful research program underway on the issue of cord clamping and placental transfusion. She is funded by NIH-National Institute for Nursing Research for her research on cord clamping time in preterm infants. She has presented her work nationally and internationally and is widely published. Dr. Mercer is a fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives.

Kathryn Landon-Malone, RN, PhD(c), CPNP
As a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) with over 30 years of experience in pediatric health care, Kathryn is most interested in providing health care for children that focuses on keeping kids healthy. This means concentrating on nutrition, preventive health, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, parenting, and a caring relationship. She has spent the majority of her nursing career in Pediatrics, first in pediatric oncology, then in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, the Newborn Intensive Care Unit and finally in pediatric primary care as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. After her PNP training she completed the Certificate Program in Holistic Nursing, trained in Reiki and Healing Touch and received her training in pediatric hypnosis with the Society for Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics. Kathryn is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Pre and Perinatal Psychology, a new field of study examining the beginnings of health or disease in children. As a mother of three children and a PNP she believes kids stay healthy when they grow up in a container of love, acceptance, good nutrition, fresh air and exercise and a healthy dose of play. As a founding practitioner member of True North, she believes in the power of circle process to transform health care. Kathryn speaks locally and nationally on parenting, circle process, holistic nursing and integrative health care.

Julie Gerland
For over the last 25 years Julie Gerland has worked in the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health. She has pioneered a program to accompany future parents from before conception to after birth, The Holistic Parenting Program: Preconception to Birth & Beyond... Using state-of-the-art methods, The HP Program is designed to help parents to transform emotional trauma and limit core beliefs by connecting with powerful inner resources. Future parents learn how to build rapport with their intelligent cells and to nourish their body in harmony with the cycles of Nature. The Program empowers couples to transmit their very best to their children in this vitally important period of development. Julie also currently trains professionals and is an international lecturer, workshop facilitator and co-author of two celebrity anthologies. Julie is the UN representative and Chief Administrator for OMAEP (Organisation Mondiale des Associations de l’Education Prénatale/World Organisation of Prenatal Education Associations) an NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council. She is also on the faculty of the following organisations: Alchemy Institute of Hypnosis, APPPAH (Assoc. of Prenatal, Perinatal Psycholgy and Health), HypnoBirthing® Institute, ISPPM (International Society of Prenatal Psychology and Medicine), National Guild of Hypnotists.