Calgary Breech Conference
November 15-16, 2025 South Health Campus
Schedule of Events
Note: If you apply for the In-Person Conference and the Online Course, the package is Cheaper
Book Hotel:
We have secured a block of rooms for conference attendees at the Courtyard by Marriott Calgary South - located just across the street from South Health Campus. Use the following link to make reservations:
https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1758833822624&key=GRP&app=resvlink
Event Summary: Calgary Breech Conference, Hotel Reservation Start Date: Friday, November 14, 2025
End Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025, Courtyard by Marriott Calgary South for 185.00 CAD per night (Rates include parking)
Last Day to Book: Friday, October 24, 2025
8:00am - Opening Blessing from an ancestor of the traditional territory of Calgary
8:20 - 8:40am
- Introduction to the Conference
- About the establishment of the National Breech Society of Canada
- Brief history of BABE and the evolution of the Breech POWER course
8:40 -9:40am Client / Patient Panel
- Breech Birth Experiences
9:40 -10:15am Dr. Ken Johnson
- the trouble with RCTS and the benefits of observational data for the study of complex obstetric phenomena. A call to collect data.
10:15-10:30am BREAK
10:30 - 11:15am Dr. Meriah Fahey
- Breech birth outcomes and research from South Health Campus, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
11:15 – 12:00am Betty-Anne Daviss
- Breech birth outcomes and breech practice at Montfort Hospital, Ottawa, Canada
12:00 - 1:00pm LUNCH
1:00 – 2:00pm Dr. Andrew Bisits
- Outcomes and Research from Newcastle and Sydney
--Interviewing candidates for breech birth
2:00 -2:30pm Betty-Anne Daviss & Dr. Andrew Bisits
- The Mechanics of Normal Breech Birth
2:30 – 3:15pm
- Essential manoeuvres to know for vaginal breech birth
3:15 - 5:00pm: Get coffee and run to Vaginal Breech Birth Simulations (small groups)
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Sunday Morning
8:00 - 8:40am Dr. Abhay Lodha
--Presentation on early/late cord clamping
8:45 - 9:20am Panel of Obstetric, Midwifery and Neonatal practitioners
- Clinical practice changes for cord clamping with vaginal breech birth
9:20am-10:00 Dr. Ken Johnson
- the problems of poorly conducted meta-analyses using the breech meta analyses as an example; the benefits of understanding the meta-analyses on cesarean risks
10:00 - 10:15am BREAK
10:15-11:00am Panel Discussion
- Controversies in Management
11:00am - 12:00pm
- Vaginal Breech Births with Midwives as MRP
12:00 - 12:15pm Lisa Cowdery
- NBSC Breech Friendly Hospital (BFH) initiative
12:15 - 1:15pm LUNCH
1:15 - 3:00pm Video analysis
- Difficult Breech Births
3:00 - 3:15pm Break
3:15 - 4:45pm
- Vaginal Breech Birth Simulations (small groups)
4:45 - 5:00pm Closing
Program subject to change but probably very little; all parties very keen to seize the day.