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Kim Q. Dau Oral History Interview, 2022

Kim Quang Dau, RN, MS, CNM, is a Clinical Professor of Midwifery in the School of Nursing at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), a Certified Nurse-Midwife at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Director of UCSF's Nurse-Midwifery/WHNP Program, and a co-lead for UCSF's Midwifery Mentoring and Belonging Program. From 2007 to 2010, Dau was a Staff Midwife with Duke Midwifery Service, and the Coordinator for the Centering Pregnancy program facilitated in collaboration with Durham County Department of Public Health in locations including Lincoln Community Health Center and El Centro Hispano. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on October 19, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project, which was funded by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund. In the interview, Dau discusses her path to midwifery, patient-centered care in a community setting, and the experience of change in healthcare systems. The themes of this interview include midwifery, community healthcare, and medical training.
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Interview, October, 19 2022

This oral history interview was conducted with Kim Q. Dau on October 19, 2022 by Josephine McRobbie as part of the Duke Midwifery Service and Durham Maternal Health Oral History Project, which was funded by The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
Duration: 00:39:58
During the interview, Dau discusses her background and education; the impact Amy MacDonald had on her as a guest lecturer during Dau's House Course as an undergraduate at Duke University and her subsequent career as a midwife; Dau's interest in Vietnamese and other non-Western medicine practices; her first post-graduate job as a staff midwife in Duke Midwifery Service; the Centering Pregnancy modality including training, later work with the program at Durham County Health Department, and the influence of Margy Hutchison and Rebekah Kaplan's Centering Pregnancy program work had on her; Dau's reflections on power, exchange, healthcare as a partnership, and working in a relational way with people of different backgrounds from one's own; her move back to San Francisco and the pandemic "pause" on many Centering programs; Dau's work in the education and training of midwifery students; learning from midwives; partnerships with other practitioners; and reflections on Duke and how midwifery has and can be incorporated into large medical institutions. Digital files include interview metadata and transcript (PDF), interview with stereo (WAV), interview with mono (MP3), consent form (PDF), an image (JPG), and TXT files.