Glenn Posner - Oxorn Foote Human Labor and Birth

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To Dr. Harry Oxorn. We hope youd be proud.

Birth record of Dr. Griffith D. Jones. Dr. Foote played an even more important role in HIS history!

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Yaa Amankwah, MBCHB, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, The University of Ottawa
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Nadya Ben Fadel, MD, FAAP, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, The University of Ottawa
Division of Neonatology
Department of Pediatrics
Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Dan Boucher, MD, MSc
Clinical Fellow, The University of Ottawa
Department of Medicine
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Yvonne Cargill, MD, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, The University of Ottawa
Division of MaternalFetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Darine El-Chaar, MD, FRCSC
Clinical Fellow, The University of Toronto
Division of MaternalFetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Toronto University Health Network
Toronto, Ontario, Canada []

Ramadan El Sugy, MD, FRCSC
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
William Osler Health System
Brampton, Ontario, Canada []

Karen Fung Kee Fung, MD, FRCSC, MHPE
Associate Professor, The University of Ottawa
Division of MaternalFetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Laura M. Gaudet, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
Division of MaternalFetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Moncton Hospital, Horizon Health Network Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada []

Catherine Gallant, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, The University of Ottawa
Department of Anesthesiology
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Andre Gruslin, MD, FRCSC
Professor, The University of Ottawa
Division of MaternalFetal Medicine
Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology & Cellular and Molecular Medicine
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Samantha Halman, MD
Clinical Fellow, The University of Ottawa
Department of Medicine
The Ottawa Hospital
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada []

Alan Karovitch, MD, MED, FRCPC
Associate Professor, The University of Ottawa