Speaker Profile

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	Biography Dr. Michael Bow is currently a Clinical Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alberta. He has also, for the past 25 years, worked in active practice at the Grey Nun’s Hospital in Edmonton as a General Obstetrician/Gynecologist.Dr. Bow completed his degree in Medicine at the University of Calgary in 1980. Thereafter, he finished a one year residency in Internal Medicine followed by a one year rotating internship in Halifax. He practiced as a Family Physician in Calgary, Winnipeg, and rural Nova Scotia between 1982 and 1986. In 1986 he returned to residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and obtained a Fellowship in the specialty at the University of Alberta in 1990.Dr. Bow has extensively been involved in all aspects of the specialty including Gynecologic Surgery and active Obstetrical practice. He also has a special interest in pregnancy outcomes, medico-legal aspects of the practice, and continuing professional development. He is a member of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) Guidelines Management and Oversight Committee since 2014, an ALARM Instructor with the SOGC since 1999, and the current co-Chair of the Provincial Perinatal Quality Assurance Committee of the Alberta Perinatal Health Program (with Dr. Anne Tierney – Neonatologist). Disclosure 1. I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a pharmaceutical, medical device or communications organization. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).

Biography
Dr. Michael Bow is currently a Clinical Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alberta. He has also, for the past 25 years, worked in active practice at the Grey Nun’s Hospital in Edmonton as a General Obstetrician/Gynecologist.Dr. Bow completed his degree in Medicine at the University of Calgary in 1980. Thereafter, he finished a one year residency in Internal Medicine followed by a one year rotating internship in Halifax. He practiced as a Family Physician in Calgary, Winnipeg, and rural Nova Scotia between 1982 and 1986. In 1986 he returned to residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and obtained a Fellowship in the specialty at the University of Alberta in 1990.Dr. Bow has extensively been involved in all aspects of the specialty including Gynecologic Surgery and active Obstetrical practice. He also has a special interest in pregnancy outcomes, medico-legal aspects of the practice, and continuing professional development. He is a member of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) Guidelines Management and Oversight Committee since 2014, an ALARM Instructor with the SOGC since 1999, and the current co-Chair of the Provincial Perinatal Quality Assurance Committee of the Alberta Perinatal Health Program (with Dr. Anne Tierney – Neonatologist).
Disclosure
1. I do not have an affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a pharmaceutical, medical device or communications organization. 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).