Kate Levett: BEd (Hons I), Adv.Dip.App.Sci.(Aucp), MPH (Merit), Grad.Cert.Jap.Acup., PhD (C) (UWS). Kate is an acupuncturist, researcher, childbirth educator and epidemiologist. She completed her PhD at the NICM Research Institute at the University of Western Sydney. Her study examined the use of non-pharmacological techniques for first time mothers to help them manage their labour and birth. Kate graduated as teacher in 1994 (Univ. Sydney), and an acupuncturist in 2004 from the Australian Institute of Applied Sciences in Brisbane, and has been working at the Perinatal Research Unit at the University of Sydney, Northern Clinical School at the Royal North Shore Hospital. In 2009 she completed a Masters degree in Public Health (epidemiology) at the Univ. of Sydney, and is now combining research interests and Chinese Medicine in the maternity context. Kate works as a research academic at the University of Notre Dame in the School of Medicine. She works clinically as an acupuncturist at West Street Wellbeing in North Sydney. Website: drkatelevett.com