Season’s
Greetings

December 2016

Newsletter
Newsletter Editor Dr Heather Rowe
Logo based on painting by Omar Biscotti

We are pleased to bring ISPOG members aholiday edition of Newsletter. It contains animportantannouncement,
acallforinformation from member societies and anoffer of help.

aspects of women's health including family
violence and teenage pregnancy. She has
secured $35
millioninresearchandinfrastructure funding and has authored several
Government reports.

Announcing the new Editors of
the Journal of Psychosomatic
Obstetrics and Gynecology

Professor Linda McGowan
Linda McGowan is Professor of Applied HealthResearch with a special interest in women’s
health. She has a clinical background in nursing
and midwifery and a PhD in health psychology;
she is a member of the British PsychologicalSociety (BPS) and registered with the Nursing
and Midwifery Council (NMC).

We are pleased to announce that after an
exhaustive international search, Taylor &Francis, the publishers of JPOG, haveappointed new editors of the journal. As isusual, the pair of editors represent the OBGYNand Psychology disciplines.
Professor Julie Quinlivan
Professor Julie Quinlivan is a Fellow of the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College ofObstetricians and Gynaecologists and has also
completed a PhD in Maternal Fetal Medicine.
She has been an active clinician in Obstetrics
and Gynaecology for 25 years and been Headof Unit in several States within Australia. She iscurrently Chair of the Clinical Senate ofWestern Australia, a leading policy unit forgovernment. She is also a Non-Executive
Director of South Metropolitan TAFE and South
Metropolitan Health Service Boards anda Member of the Administrative Appeals
Tribunal of Australia. She is a former Pro Vice
Chancellor and Executive Dean of Medicine at
the University of Notre Dame Australia andcurrently holds academic appointments with
the Institute for Health Research at theUniversity of Notre Dame Australia and theSouth Australian Medical Research Institute.
She has 240 publications covering high risk
pregnancy and the psychological and social

Linda’s research has a special emphasis on
psychological and social factors that impact
on women’s health and wellbeing across thelifespan. Her research spans maternal health,including perinatal mental health, andgynaecology. She contributes to global
women’s health agenda with research on
involving partners in the treatment of motherto-child transmission of HIV in pregnancy in East
Africa.
She has a particular interest in developing selfmanagement resources for women who
present with conditions that can be viewed asdifficult to treat and manage. This includes
research related to women with chronic pelvic
pain (CPP) with or without a definitive diagnosis
and how women engage in the consultation
process. Her qualitative research has offeredinsights into the effects that living with CPP has
on quality of life, psychological and socialfunctioning. She has published widely in arange of journals and contributed to nationalreports. Linda leads the Maternal,

Family and Child Health research theme within
the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds.
She contributes to a national steering group onservice provision for women with chronic pelvic
pain (Public Health England, UK). She isrecognised for her capacity building work, is acore panel member for the National Institute ofHealthResearch(NIHR)
Postdoctoral
Fellowships committee and holds a Leadership
Chair.
Professors Quinlivan and McGowan arecommencing immediately. They each bringextensive and highly salient expertise, and we
expect that the journal will flourish under theirstewardship. ISPOG extends best wishes tothem both in their new editorial positions.

Member Contact Details –please check your entry!
We are endeavouring to keep your contact
details correct and up-to-date.
Please visit the ISPOG website and check thecontact details of your national society. If they
are not correct, please forward the correct
details to Bianca at admin@ispog.org

Developing societies - How can
ISPOG help?
We are aware that a number of countries arein the process of developing a POG society.
Although ISPOG cannot provide financial
assistance, we are here to help in other ways.
Please let us know how we can assist you to set
up your society.

ISPOG has new Logo

The new logo is attached to the newsletter. We
hope that you will use this on your websites witha link to ISPOG www.ispog.org

2017 ExCo Meeting Dublin
You will also receive an email with full details of
the 2017 ExCo meeting:

Please let us know if you do not wish your email
address to be listed on the website

Wednesday 8 March 2017
1400-1800
Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge
Please save the date.

If your society has a website and it is not listed,
please forward the link. We will include it on theISPOG website.
http://ispog.org/national-societies/membersocieties

A dinner for ExCo members will be held thenight before the meeting (Tuesday 7th March).
We will send full details of the restaurant and amap closer to the time.

Is your POG society recognisedby the national OBGYN society?

ISPOG wishes you, and your families andcolleagues a peaceful and safe holiday
season.

At the ExCo meetings in Málaga there wasdiscussion about the relationships between
national POG and OBGYN societies. It wasagreed that strong POG societies usually havegood relationships with their national OBGYNsociety.
ExCo members hope to understand how therelationships between POG and OBGYN
societies are developed and maintained.
Ideas about how to improve these relationships
can then be passed on to others wishing tostrengthen their links to OBGYN societies.
Please send us your experiences and ideas!

Heather Rowe
Secretary Generalon behalf of the ISPOG Board

Look out for the next Newsletter
We intend to publish a Newsletter in the firstfew months of 2017.
We hope to include updates from member
societies. Please send us your news.