Caroline Peterson, DC, PhD, MPH, CPM - Prenatal & Perinatal Clinician/Researcher
Research
 
Dr. Caroline Peterson completed her undergraduate training in anthropology at The College of William and Mary in 1989, and her training in anthropology and epidemiology at the University of South Florida in 2008. In 2011 she completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University in the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Neurology as a National Institute of Health (NIH) Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) T32 scholar.
 
Dr. Caroline Peterson's dissertation evaluated breech presentation as an expression of predictive adaptation to the extra-uterine relationship environment. She found that breech presentation may be an expression of attachment type.
 
Dr. Caroline Peterson's postdoctoral research focused on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatment of pregnancy-related low back pain.  The pilot randomized controlled trial compared exercise, spinal manipulation, or neuroemotional technique (NET). Dr. Peterson found that all three interventions improved the symptoms of low back pain.
 
Dr. Caroline Peterson is available to lecture on topics such as reproduction, attachment & evolution, early relationship formation, breech presentation, natural preparation for conception, healing from wounds such as sexual abuse and cesarean sections, relationship and physiologic predictive adaptation, breastfeeding, and how to conduct mixed-methodology research especially as it relates to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
 
Speaking Dates
  • November 2011 "The OB, the Midwife, and the Shaman - Beyond Odent: Provision during labor and delivery" American Anthropological Association. Montreal Canada
  • November 19, 2011 "Breech Presentation as an Example of Ambivalent Attachment" Association of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health. San Francisco, CA
  • April 16, 2011 "Conservative Intervention for the Treatment of Pregnancy-Related Low Back Pain: A pilot randomized controlled trial compares exercise, spinal manipulation, and neuro emotional technique (NET). SPARC (Symposium of Portland Area Research on CAM) Portland, OR
  • November 8, 2010 "Pregnancy-Related Low Back Pain: preliminary results from a pilot randomized controlled trial" American Public Health Association. Denver, CO
  • September 27, 2010 "Risks Factors for Breech Presentation: Western and Eastern models compared and contrasted" 1st Place Research Poster presented for the Association of Women's Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nursing. Las Vegas, NV
  • January 28 - 29, 2010 "Pain, Love, and the CNS: Pregnancy and low back pain", "Caring in the Clinical Encounter: How culture figures in" Visiting Scholar at Texas Chiropractic College, Houston TX
  • December 5, 2009 "Culturally Sensitive CAM Methodology" American Anthropological Association annual conference. Philadelphia, PA 
  • November 12, 2009 "How to Incorporate Qualitative Research into Family Medicine Projects: Proposal for a Workshop Series" OHSU Family Medicine Department,
  • October 22, 2009 "When Does Mothering Begin? The relationship environment of the womb" Association for Mothering Research, University of York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • September 14, 2009 "Cross-Cultural Paradigms of Risk Factors for Breech Presentation and Models of Intervention" National College of Natural Medicine Grand Rounds, Portland, OR
  • June 23, 2009 "Intra-uterine Attachment and Pregnancy-Related Low-Back Pain" OHSU Maternal& Fetal Medicine Research BRB 381.
  • June 17, 2009  "Pregnancy-Related Low Back Pain: CAM intervention and implications for intra-uterine attachment and heart rate variability" Portland Kaiser Center for Health Research 3800 N. Interstate Avenue 503-335-2400
 
 
Caroline Peterson, DC, PhD, MPH, CPM
carolinepeters @ care2.com
503.224.2100
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