Maryam Bazargan MSc, Phd

Dr Maryam Bazargan is a Lecturer with the Midwifery Team at Flinders University. Maryam completed a PhD at University of South Australia in 2015 in Pharmacy/Pharmacology: Drug Disposition in Feto‑Maternal Unit. She completed a Masters degree in Human Physiology from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran and a Bachelor of Midwifery from Tabriz University, Iran. Maryam also completed a Bachelor of Midwifery degree at University of South Australia in 2016 to be able to register as a midwife with AHPRA.

Maryam is passionate about improving the understanding of drug disposition between mother and fetus and she teaches pharmacology to midwifery students and prescribers as well as other since topics including Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction and Clinical Science and Applied Pharmacology to midwifery students.

Maryam has extensive research experience in science. She strongly believes that to facilitate physiological birth, we need to incorporate adequate science of the physiology of reproduction/labour in midwifery training programs. She continues to work towards improving rate of physiological birth in Iran.