GOLD Speakers

Panel Discussion 2025

• Speaker Type: 2025 Main Presentations
• Country: GOLD

Biography:

Anna Maria Rossetti earned her Bachelor's degree in Midwifery from the University of Milan (UNIMI), Italy, in 2004. In 2009, she completed a two-year program in Continuity of Care and Salutogenesis under Verena Schmid at SEAO in Florence, Italy. She further advanced her education by earning a Master’s degree in Posturology and Manual Therapies from the University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy, in 2016. Additionally, she is an accredited Spinning Babies® Instructor.
Anna Maria has extensive experience as a midwife, having worked at Hospital Savini, THO, in Milan, Italy, and as a Coordinator Midwife at Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey, UK. In 2010, she took on the role of Head Midwife at a maternity hospital run by the NGO Emergency in Anabah, Afghanistan. Since 2013, she has been practicing as an independent midwife.
Currently, Anna Maria serves as the Director of the postgraduate School of Midwifery Art (SEAO), in Florence, Italy. She is also the Director of the Editorial Board of SEAO Edizioni and the Founder and Director of ARCHIMETRA, an international journal dedicated to Salutogenesis in Midwifery Care, published by SEAO Edizioni.
As a highly sought-after speaker and educator, Anna Maria lectures on Psychoneuroendocrine Physiology at universities in Italy, Portugal, Brazil, the UK, Israel, and Russia. She is also a frequent presenter at conferences in the United States.

Dr. Hazel Keedle is a Senior Lecturer of Midwifery and Director of Academic Midwifery Programs at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. She has over two decades of experience as a clinician in nursing and midwifery, educator, and researcher. Her research interests are vaginal birth after caesarean, birth trauma, and maternity experiences, which she explores primarily using feminist mixed methodologies.

Dr. Keedle's work is recognised nationally and internationally. She has made many invited conference and seminar presentations, and her research has been widely published in academic journals and books. She is the author of the book ""Birth after Caesarean: Your Journey to a Better Birth,"" which is based on her PhD findings. Dr. Keedle is also the lead researcher on the largest maternity experiences survey, The Birth Experience Study. In September 2022, she became the Editor in Chief of The Practising Midwife Australia from All4Maternity.

Dr Keedle is passionate about improving the experiences of women during childbirth. She is committed to using her research to advocate for women's rights and to ensure that all women have access to respectful, supportive maternity care.

Nichole’s professional career in midwifery has spanned nearly two decades and includes health education consultancy, full-scope midwifery services in private, public and military facilities, and clinical faculty advisory.
Nichole earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina, completing her studies in 2005 and received her Docterate in Nursing Practice from Old Dominion University in 2022. She is currently working on her psych mental health nurse practioner certification. Her desire to listen to women was the motivation that led her to midwifery, a specialty she has practiced since 2005. Seeing herself as a partner in her patients’ health care, Nichole is passionate about working with women, individuals, and families to ensure safe and informed care. Her areas of expertise include sexually transmitted disease education/prevention and teen pregnancy, with a special interest in transgender care and perinatal mood disorders. Her passion for her community inspired her to open a home birth practice, Jamii Birth and Wellness Services, to be able to serve her community and work towards creating spaces for clients that want out of hospital birth.
Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Nichole loves coastal living. She is the mother of two daughters and has one fur baby as well. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, knitting and exploring different cultures.