2026 Grant Recipients

Graphic text over confetti and A-O-M logo reads: "Congrats to the recipients of the A-O-M Midwifery Research Grants 2026."

The AOM is pleased to announce another successful year of the Midwifery Research Grants program! Congratulations to project team: Lisa Middleton, Patrice Latka, Kimberly Moorhouse and student midwife Momina Khan whose project supports client-centred care and capture the experiences of midwives and midwifery clients alike.

Project Midwifery Research Grant recipient
Project team members

Lisa Middleton       
Principal Investigator, RM, PhD

With this project, the multi-disciplinary team comprised of Lisa Middleton, RM; Patrice Latka, RM; Kimberley Moorhouse, RM; Momina Khan, Midwifery Student; Hilah Silver, PhD; and Kevin Coughlin, MD aims to conduct the first longitudinal, prospective cohort study of Canadian midwives to evaluate the ability of midwives and midwifery students to acquire and retain the skills of siting and administering medications through IO cannulas in a simulated OOH birth setting, and to compare their retention rates of the technique to that of UVC siting and medication administration. 

 

Past Recipients

Year Project Midwifery
Research Grant		 Mentored Midwifery
Research Grant		 BORN Data Access
Research Grant
2025 Elizabeth Cates, RM, PhD

Natalie Kirby, RM
Allison Rigney, RM
Samantha Chisholm, RM
Samantha Kreuger, RM

  
2024

Kirsty Bourret             
B.HSc. (midwifery), PhD

Ness Dixon
RM, MPH

Lorena Vehling 
MSc, RM
2023

Bounmy Inthavong, RM                      

 

Vanessa Hébert, RM                                  
2022 Claire Dion Fletcher, RM Susana Ku, RM, PhD candidate
Kambili Husbands, RM, MA
Sophia Kehler, RM
Simone Rosenberg, RM		  
2021

Mary Sharpe, RM, PhD
Wendy St. Laurent-Coutts, RM, NP-PHC/MPH, BScN, Doctoral student (Ed.)

 Abigail Corbin, RM
Ayeshah Haque, RM, MSc candidate
Jessica Jones, RM, MPH candidate 		  
2020

Karline Wilson-Michell, CNM, RM, DrNP, MSN
Liz Darling, RM, MSc, PhD

 Angela Freeman, MSc candidate 
Kate Demers, MMid		  
2019

Andrea Robertson, RM, MA PhD candidate
Erica Elderhorst, RM, MSc candidate  

Emma Seager, RM, MSc(c)  

  
2018

Nicole Bennett, RM, PhD candidate
Liz Darling, RM, PhD
Beth Murray-Davis, RM, PhD
Mary Sharpe, RM, PhD

 Jen Goldberg, RM, MPH candidate
Ali McCallum, RM, MSc & Jenna Robertson Bly, RM, MA Angela Reitsma, RM, MSc		  
2017 Liz Darling, RM, PhD Erica Elderhorst, RM
Erika Arsenault, MSc & Sam Landry, MSc