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Dr. Barbara Toppin is an obstetrician, author, and fierce advocate for families. She is not afraid to think outside the box to help families have successful and healthy pregnancies. As the new Board Chair for Star Legacy Foundation, she brings leadership, strength, compassion, and ideas that are critical to making progress toward the prevention and improved care of perinatal loss.

Dr. Elizabeth Minton is a researcher, marketing professor, and bereaved mother. In this episode, she describes how these roles have inspired her recent work looking into how social norms and activities play a role in perinatal bereavement.

In her role as a Family Support Specialist for Star Legacy Foundation, Denise Nelsen speaks with hundreds of families who are impacted by pregnancy loss and infant death. Her training in social work, plus her own experience as a bereaved grandmother, helped shape her unique approach to ensuring families have the support they need along their grief journeys. In this episode, we learn more about Denise and what she has learned about working with these families.

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 […]