Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
MemorialCare Center for Women, Miller Children's Hospital
2801 Atlantic Ave
Long Beach, CA
USA 90806
Email: BVanderwal@memorialcare.org
Biographical Sketch: Perinatal nursing has been the professional focus of Ms. VanderWal for 27 years with experience in antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum patient care, childbirth education, clinical research, legal consultation, and nursing education. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from California State University at Los Angeles and a Masters Degree in Nursing from UCLA. She is currently the Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist at Miller Children's Hospital at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, a large tertiary perinatal center in Southern California.
Previous speaking experiences include more than twelve years of teaching entry level and advanced topics in perinatal nursing, experience presenting project proposals and outcomes to multidisciplinary audiences, and the 2004 AWHONN national meeeting (Special Delivery: Educating and Caring for the VBAC Patient).