Stillbirth Matters

Read Ms. Thorwick’s Guest Blog In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Executive Director Lindsey Wimmer visits with Clare Thorwick. Now in her 90s, Clare’s passion for mothers and their babies […]

In this episode, Lindsey Wimmer visits with Dr. Mana Parast regarding placental research including COVID and placental findings . Dr. Parast is a perinatal pathologist and placental researcher at the […]

In this episode, Lindsey Wimmer visits with Dr. Kristin Sharp from Madison Wisconsin. In 2017 Dr. Sharp attended the Stillbirth Summit in Minneapolis and heard Dr. Alexander Heazell of the […]

Anna Calix In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Lindsey Wimmer, Executive Director visits with Anna Calix. Anna joined the Star Legacy Foundation in 2021 as our Spanish support group facilitator. […]

cHRIS dUFFY In this episode of the Stillbirth Matters Podcast, Executive Director Lindsey Wimmer visits with Chris Duffy.  We first met Chris and his wife shortly after the stillbirth of […]

Read the trarnscript of this episode Alexander Kofinas, MD In this episode, Executive Director Lindsey Wimmer visits with Alexander Kofinas, MD. Dr. Kofinas is Director and founder of Kofinas Perinatal […]

Learn more and register today! In this episode Chris Duffy visits with LIndsey Wimmer, Executive Director of Star Legacy Foundation and Dr. Heather Florescue, an obstetrician in New York. Listen […]

In this episode Chris Duffy visits with Dr. I Cori Baill about the silence that surrounds early pregnancy loss. Her newly released book “Why is Mommy Crying” is available on […]

In this episide Chris Duffy visits with Terrell Hatzillas, PhD of Washington state. Dr. Hatzilias is a medical writer and stillbirth advocate. She obtained her BS from Duke University in 2006, and her PhD in neuroscience in 2012 from Emory University. She gave birth to her first born, a beautiful baby girl named Keira in […]

In this episode Chris Duffy visits with Joann O’Leary and Shirley Ochi-Watson. Dr. O’Leary, holds a B.E.S. and a Masters in Maternal-Child Health from the University of MN. She also has a Masters in Psychology through research from Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her Ph.D. is in Work, Community and Family Education and from […]

In this episode Chris Duffy visits with Dr. Asma Khalil. Dr. Khalil is a Professor of Obstetrics at St George’s Hospital, University of London. She is a subspecialist in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. She gained her MD at the University of London in 2009 and also has a Masters degree in Epidemiology from the London […]

In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Chris Duffy visits with Marjorie Vail. Marjorie is the former Mrs. New York International, Mrs. Brooklyn America and currently reigns as Mrs. New York American. Marjorie is a native of Brooklyn, NY, born to Haitian parents. She is a die hard Brooklynite and New Yorker. She is a Literacy […]

In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Chris Duffy visits with Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Harvard’s Ariadne Labs. As an obstetrician-gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Shah cares for […]

In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Chris Duffy visits with Dr. Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Harvard’s Ariadne Labs. As an obstetrician-gynecologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Shah cares for […]

Valentina Massa, PhD Prof Valentina Massa is an Associate Professor in Applied Biology in the Department of Health Sciences at University of Milan. She is a developmental biologist with a PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology, with a scientific interest developed within complementary biological fields aimed at elucidating pathogenetic mechanisms underlying central nervous system malformations […]

In this episode, Chris Duffy visits with Jay Watson. Jay is the father of Kainoa Mark Watson who was stillborn in 2017 due to a cord accident. He and his wife Christel honor his memory and their infertility journey by volunteering with the Star Legacy Foundation. In his professional life, he is an Agricultural Sustainability […]

In this episode, Chris Duffy visits with Jennifer Kouri, RN, CPLC.  Jen joined the Star Legacy Foundation in January of 2019 as the Family Support Coordinator.  She is responsible for our support groups, supporting chapters in their family support initiatives and is an instructor for our health professional education offerings.  Additionally she coordinates the activities of […]

In this episode Chris Duffy visits with Dr. Heather Florescue of Women’s Gynecology and Childbirth Associates, PC in Rochester, NY.  Dr. Florescue graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in 2000. She graduated from the University of Rochester Medical School in 2004 and completed residency there as well in 2008 […]

In this episode, Chris Duffy visits with Susannah Hopkins Leisher. Susannah “Zan” is a fourth-year doctoral student in epidemiology at Columbia University, focused on stillbirth. She is also an honorary research fellow at the Stillbirth Centre for Research Excellence at the Mater Research Institute of the University of Queensland, Australia; chair of the International Stillbirth […]

In this episode, Christ Duffy visits with Sue Steen and Lynn Zdechlik, the founders of Birth With Dignity: Mothers and Babies of Uganda.

Chris Duffy visits with Danielle Pollock, a PhD candidate from the University of South Australia about the stigma of stillbirth

In this episode of the Stillbirth Matters podcast, Chris Duffy visits with Valerie Samuels. In April 2002, Valerie gave birth to full term twin daughters Gina and Julia Samuels. Her daughter Gina, born with Trisomy 13 and Holoprosencephaly, lived for 9 days before she died in her mother’s arms, but not in her mother’s heart. […]

Chris Duffy visits with LIndsey Wimmer, Founder and Executive Director of the Star Legacy Foundation about the Pregnancy Research Project.

In this episode Chris Duffy visits with the Keith Powell and Jill Knox Powell during their visit to Minnesota for the Star Legacy Foundation's 15th Anniversary Dinner on June 19, 2019.

In this episode of Stillbirth Matters, Chris Duffy visits with Yasuko Yamamura, MD about Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (IHCP). Dr. Yamamura is Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health at the University of Minnesota . She received her medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in 2001. She went on […]

In this episode, Chris Duffy visits with Kathleen Massman, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Clinical Director of Healing Moments Counseling. Kathleen was drawn to a special interest and passion for working with perinatal loss families following the loss of her son Jacob, in 2011. She has over 20 years of experience working with a […]

Episode 2 – 0517 Chris Duffy interviews our guest, Dr. Jason Collins, the founder of the Pregnancy Institute located in New Roads, LA.  Dr. Collins’  career and passion has focused on […]