Neel Arant, MS, CNM, PhD Midwife Expert Witness and Chart Review Services

Curriculum Vitae

Neel Arant, MS, CNM, PhD

Education

PhD in International Health, June 2018

Curtin University. Bentley, Western Australia - Dissertation: “Development, Implementation and Utilisation of a Mobile Technology Enhanced, Electronic Medical Record/Clinical Decision Support System for the Co-management of HIV and Pregnancy”

Australian Postgraduate Award recipient

Curtin University Research Scholarship recipient

CUPSA grant recipient

African Strategies for Health/USAID featured project

Named “Global Innovator” by Global Innovation Exchange

Masters of Science in Nursing, Nurse- Midwifery, October 2002

Columbia University School of Nursing. New York, NY

National Health Service Corp Scholarship recipient

Bachelors of Science in Nursing, May 2001

Columbia University School of Nursing. New York, NY

National Health Service Corp Scholarship recipient

Barbara Desch Lenihan nursing scholar

Bachelors of Arts in Biology, May 1998

Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH

Licenses and Certifications

Licensed Midwife with Prescriptive Authority, New York State and California

Certified Nurse Midwife, American Midwifery Certification Board

Registered Midwife, National Health Practitioner Registration Authority of Australia

Registered Professional Nurse, New York State and California

United States Drug Enforcement Agency Registered Controlled Substance Prescriber,

Neonatal Resuscitation Program Provider

Basic Cardiac Life Support Provider

Certified in Advanced Fetal Monitoring

Select Advanced Training

Development of Kaiser Permanente Northern California learning module for hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

Ob/Gyn Ultrasound

The midwife as first assistant at caesarean section

HIV specialty coursework Duke University School of Nursing

Australasian HIV/AIDS conference poster presentation for the doctoral dissertation “A Mobile Technology Enhanced Electronic Medical Record/Clinical Decision Support System for Perinatal HIV Management: A Case Study from Kenya”

“Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Managing Obstetric Emergencies” State-wide Obstetric Support Unit of Western Australia

“Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Setting”- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“HIV Web Study”- Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center. Online HIV modules completed towards the “HIV Expert” designation by the American Academy of HIV Medicine

“Malaria in Pregnancy” Global Health eLearning Center

“Developing Practical Solutions to Overcoming Global Health Challenges” -The Center for Global Health and Diplomacy

Clinical Midwifery and Recent Research

Certified Nurse Midwife. The Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Northern California, 2018- present. Attending Midwife and Clinical Faculty on Labor and Delivery and Postpartum teaching and supervising Ob/Gyn residents in clinical intrapartum management and didactic instruction in vaginal delivery skills, fetal monitoring, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, perinatal hepatitis management and perinatal HIV care. Member of the Normal Term Singleton Vertex Vaginal Delivery Working Group- clinical research group with aim to improve NTSV rates and overall quality of care at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center. Midwife lead of the Critical Events Team Training group designing and running drills for critical emergencies including amniotic fluid embolism, obstetric cardiac arrest, massive postpartum hemorrhage and peri-mortem cesarean section. Recipient of the CNM Teaching Award 2021.

Author and Contributing Editor. Clinical Guidelines in Midwifery Practice. Author of the chapter on Covid-19 Management in Pregnancy and editor for chapters on Lymes Disease, CMV, Parvovirus B-19, Hepatitis, Herpes Virus, and Second and Third Trimester Bleeding to be published in 2025.

Certified Nurse Midwife. Sutter East Bay Medical Group and Ob Hospitalist Group at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA. 2017-2020 Certified Nurse Midwife/ Midwife hospitalist for Labor and Delivery and Postpartum.

PhD candidate, International Health. Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia. PhD candidate 2012-2018. “Development, Implementation and Utilisation of a Mobile Technology Enhanced, Combined Electronic Medical Record and Clinical Decision Support System for the Co-management of HIV and Pregnancy”. Designed and implemented a mobile technology enhanced, cloud-based, OpenMRS facilitated combined electronic medical record and clinical decision support system focused on the co-management of pregnancy and HIV. System piloted at Kakamega County General Hospital in Kakamega, Kenya from March 2015 – November 2015. The system demo may be accessed at https://www.arantphd.org (note, 2014 guidelines utilized)

Registered Midwife. King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women. Subiaco, Western Australia. August 2010- August 2012. Registered Midwife in the Labour and Birth Suite, Adult Special Care Unit, Maternal and Foetal Assessment Unit and the Family Birthing Centre.

Certified Nurse Midwife. Brookdale University Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY. 2008-2010. Full scope midwifery including first assistant at cesarean section and tubal ligation.

Certified Nurse Midwife. New York University School of Medicine/Bellevue-Gouverneur Midwifery Service, New York, NY. 2005- 2008. Full scope midwifery practice.

Certified Nurse Midwife. The Brooklyn Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY. 2003- 2005. Full scope midwifery through the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and MIC Women’s Health Services. Obstetric and Gynecologic care provided to women living with HIV through the PATH (Program for AIDS Treatment and Health) Center and the Department of Infectious Disease.

Certified Nurse Midwife. William F. Ryan Community Health Center, New York, NY. 2003. Obstetric and gynecologic practice in the outpatient setting.

Teaching, Advocacy and Consultancy

Clinical Preceptor. 2003- present. Clinical instruction of midwifery and medical students, Family Practice Residents and Obstetric and Gynecologic Residents through University of California, San Francisco, New York University, Brookdale University Hospital, Columbia University, the State University of New York, Downstate, University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and Kaiser Permanente

Case review, 2018- present. Case review for CNM related malpractice cases.

Sessional Academic, Curtin University and Open Universities Australia. 2012-2014. Sessional Academic for the postgraduate courses “International Health and Primary Health Care” and “Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries”.

Guest Lecturer/ Curriculum Development, State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences Division. 2008. Developed the curriculum for and lectured on the science and management of HIV/AIDS in the childbearing year.

Health Policy Consultant to the campaign of Norman Siegal for New York City Public Advocate. 2005. Advised on health policy position statements specifically in the areas of maternal/child health and HIV/AIDS policy.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 1998-2000. Laboratory research technician. Isolated proteins for use in studies evaluating cytokines involved in cell division. Isolated and reproduced gene fragments for use in identifying the functional subunit of the Gal4 promoter gene.

Oberlin College. 1998. Laboratory research involving mutation of the central region of Troponin I in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Results presented at the Biophysical Society Meeting of 1999.

School for International Training, Mumbai, India. 1997. “AIDS Intervention Programs in Mumbai.” Research focusing on the history of HIV/AIDS in India, education, outreach and treatment programs in Mumbai, India, the epidemic in context of the global epidemic and predictions for the future.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 1997. Member of a clinical research team determining the effect of cholesterol and triglyceride levels at different trimesters on the development of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension.

Previous and current professional memberships

American College of Nurse-Midwives

Australian College of Midwives

Australasian Society for HIV Medicine

California Nurse Midwives Association

International AIDS Society