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Mary Barger, CNM, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Family Health Care Nursing
UCSF School of Nursing
2 Koret Way, #N-431E
San Francisco, CA  94143-0606

Telephone:  415-476-0335    -    Fax:  415-752-2161
Email:  mary.barger@nursing.ucsf.edu

Research

My research is focused on issues that affect maternal mortality and morbidity and potential interventions to prevent these. I have studied the pattern of injuries during pregnancy and the postpartum periods.

My most recent research has focused on morbidities related to cesarean births. I have also collaborated on studies that explore the effect of provider and practice type on episiotomy rates and timing of births.

Most of my research to date has involved using population-based databases.

Teaching

Although I have been teaching in Nurse-Midwifery and Public Health educational programs for 25 years, I am a new faculty member in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing.

I will be teaching or co-teaching several courses in the Fall Quarter: N 279 (Family Theory and Practice), N 301.15 (Health Assessment Lab for Nurse-Midwives), and N 282A (Antepartum Complications I).

Honors/Awards

Delta Omega Honor Society - 1979
Fellow, American College of Nurse-Midwives -1995
Excellence in Teaching Award, ACNM Foundation - 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2006
American College of Nurse-Midwives Region 1 Excellence Award - 2000
Nurse-Midwifery Pioneer Award, California Nurse-Midwives Association - 2003
Loretta P. Lacey Award for Maternal and Child Health Academic Leadership,
      Association of Teachers of Maternal and Child Health - 2006
Nurse-Midwifery Pioneer Award, Massachusetts Nurse-Midwives -2007

Education

Stanford University, BSN

Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, MPH

Boston University, PhD, Epidemiology

Selected Publications

Barger MK, Fullerton JT, Lops VR, Rhode MA (Editors). Protocols for Gynecologic and Obstetric Health Care. Philadelphia: WB Saunders 1988.

Rhode MA, Barger MK. Perineal care: then & now: J Nurse-Midwifery 1990; 35(4):220-30.

Greulich B, Paine LL, McClain C, Barger M, Edwards N, Paul R. Twelve years and over 30,000 nurse-midwife attended births: the LAC + USC Women's Hospital Birth Center experience. J Nurse-Midwifery 1994; 39(4): 185-96.

Barger M, Woolner B. Primary care for women: assessment and management of common genitourinary disorders. J Nurse-Midwifery 1995; 40(2): 231-46.

Rorie JR, Paine LP, Barger MK. Primary care for women: cultural competence in primary care for women. J Nurse-Midwifery 1996; 41(2): 92-100.

Paine LL, Zanardi LR, Johnson TRB, Rorie JL, Barger MK. A comparison of two time intervals for the auscultated acceleration test. J Midwifery Women's Health 2001; 46(2): 98-102.

Graves BW, Barger MK. A "conservative" approach to iron supplementation during pregnancy. J Midwifery Women's Health 2001; 46(3): 159-66.

Lazar J, Kotelchuck M, Nannini A, Barger M. Identifying multiple gestation groups using state-level and fetal death certificate data. Mat Child Health J 2006; 10(3): 225-8.

Declercq E, Barger M, Cabral HJ, Evans SR, Kotelchuck M, Simon C, Weiss J, Heffner LJ. Maternal outcomes associated with planned primary cesarean births compared with planned vaginal births. Obstet Gynecol 2007; 109(3): 669-77.

Barger MK. Poverty and Health. [commentary] J Midwifery & Women's Health 2007; 52(6): e53-e55.

Nannini A, Lazar J, Berg C, Tomashek K, Cabral H, Barger M, Barfield W, Kotelchuck M. Injury: a major cause of pregnancy-associated morbidity in Massachusetts. J Midwifery & Women's Health 2008; 53(1): 3-10.

Nannini A, Lazar J, Berg C, Barger M, Tomashek K, Cabral H, Barfield W, Kotelchuck M. Physical injuries reported on hospital visits for assault during the pregnancy-associated period. Nursing Research 2008; 57(3): 144-149.

Barger M, Cammune B, Graves B, Lamberto J. The past, present, and future of assessing continuing competency for midwives.[commentary] J Midwifery & Women's Health 2009; 54(6): 338-40.



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