Matilde Fernández Fernández-Arroyo

Matilde Fernández y Fernández-Arroyo, RN, CNM, LPsy, MsN, PhD, is a Nurse(1983), Midwife (1985), Phycologist (1998), Sexuality Master (2000), Educational Ph.D. (2012), and a Professor of Midwifery Program at the Maternity Unit of La Paz Hospital University, Madrid, as well as an Associate Professor at Pontificia Comillas University, San Juan de Dios School of Nursing (Spain). She has participated in over 40 postgraduate programs and workshops. She has worked in clinics for 13 years, in primary attention for 6 years, and from 1994 to nowadays has taught nurses and midwives. She specializes in human sexuality, women's education programs, and newborn care, very interested in the education of women in health care and training of health professionals in the care of women and newborns. She is the Madrid government´s advisor for health education, accreditation programs, and examination faculty in the country's official exams for midwife vacancies in the Health Public System. She counts with over 50 communications in national and international meetings and congress; recognized author of many publications, especially in the Spanish language, indexed by the Spanish Index, also a collaborator in magazines for parents (Ser Padres, MiBebé y yo, Spanish original). The last indexed publication counts with great repercussion in educational circles, Assessment of the Pregnancy Education Programme with questionnaire \'EDUMA2\' in Madrid (Spain), 2014 by Journal Evaluation of Clinical Practice.