Instructor: Pam Conrad
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Biography: Pam Conrad PGd, BSN, RN, CCAP specialty is Women's Health Clinical Aromatherapy. As a Purdue nurse, she practiced for 20 years in medical center hospitals as a Level 1 Trauma, Psychiatric, Women's Health and oncology support nurse. In 2000 she completed her Clinical Aromatherapy for Health Care Professionals (CCAP) certification course. She then lived and studied advanced clinical aromatherapy and graduate complementary therapy studies with nurses, doctors and midwives in England and France for two years. In 2008, she developed evidence-based curriculum in Women's Health aromatherapy, which is the foundation for multiple hospital nursing and midwifery educational programs. It is the first and still only clinically evidence based Women's Health Aromatherapy course for nurses and midwives in the US, Canada, Mexico and South America. In 2012 she conducted and published Postpartum depression aromatherapy research. (Conrad and Adams 2012)
She facilitated cancer support groups at the IU Center of Excellence in Women's Health for multiple years and conducted a study with cancer patients measuring their pre/post emotional responses to aromatherapy. In the US, she has served as clinical aromatherapy educator and hospital consultant for multiple women's health, hospice and palliative care programs as well as 5 years as an onsite CAM nurse consultant for a large hospital pharmacy developing compounded therapeutic blends for staff and patients. An international speaker, she has presented her aromatherapy work in Canada, UK, Chile, Japan, Ireland, Mexico and throughout the US. Her new book, "Women's Health Aromatherapy- a clinically evidence based guidebook for nurses, midwives, doulas and therapists "will be published globally. The book will share and explain current Women's Health clinical aromatherapy research and provide concise, easy to follow methods and quick tips for use by practicing nurses, midwives and therapists. |