Speaker Profile

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Biography
Naana Afua Jumah is an Obstetrician Gynaecologist at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre and a researcher at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. Dr. Jumah’s research and clinical practice focuses on Indigenous women's health and substance use in pregnancy in Northwestern Ontario. Through a series of integrated research studies, Dr. Jumah seeks to determine how to organize a model of care that addresses the needs of substance involved pregnant women in the region and improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Dr Jumah holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a DPhil in Medical Engineering from the University of Oxford, which she completed as a Rhodes Scholar. Following her doctorate, she graduated from Harvard Medical School and then completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology with a specialization in Addiction Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Disclosure
1. I have a relationship with a for-profit and/or a not-for-profit organization to disclose: a) Direct financial payments including receipt of honoraria: PSI Foundation. b) Funded grants or clinical trials: PSI Foundation, CIHR, NOAMA 2. I do not intend to make therapeutic recommendations for medications that have not received regulatory approval (i.e. “off-label” use of medication).