Renée Byfield

Renée Byfield, MS, RN, FNP, C-EFM is a clinical leader, specializing in obstetric and newborn care. She is currently the co-author and Program Director for Perinatal Quality Improvement’s Implicit and Explicit Bias Program. She has been a nurse educator in both academic and hospital settings. At Temple and Drexel University Nursing schools in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. Byfield Clinical Assistant Professor in both undergraduate and master programs. She has held obstetric educator roles at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center – New York Presbyterian. At Cornell, she became Patient Safety Administrator for the obstetric service where she coordinated quality improvement and perinatal patient safety initiatives and sat on the Perinatal Maternal Mortality Review Committee. She developed and launched interdisciplinary simulation drills and team training as an AHRQ TeamSTEPPS master trainer. As a Senior Manager of Clinical Program Development at AWHONN she authored and facilitated development of the Perinatal Orientation Education Program (POEP) and the Neonatal Orientation Education Program (NOEP), 3rd and 4th editions. Ms. Byfield authored the first edition of AWHONN’s Obstetric Patient Safety (OPS) Program focused interdisciplinary management of postpartum hemorrhage utilizing simulation-based training.