Lucía Alonso González, RM, PhD

Lucía Alonso González is originally from Spain, where she completed her BSc in Biology and PhD in Molecular Biology and Genetics. After working as a scientist in a number of projects in the UK and New Zealand, she decided to change careers to midwifery. She studied her BSc in Midwifery degree in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has been working as a registered midwife since 2015. Currently she lives in Nelson, a mid-sized town on the top of the South Island, where she practices in a variety of roles: from a hospital midwife in primary, secondary and tertiary hospitals to remote rural midwifery; Lucia is also a flight-trained midwife and a member of NZMAT (the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team). She loves to combine her clinical work with research whenever possible. Her current areas of interest are fetal growth restriction--she is a champion for the Perinatal Institute's Growth Assessment Protocol in Nelson Hospital--and supporting other practitioners to bring back the skills to facilitate vaginal breech births.