Day 2 | Session 4 | Concurrent | Above board: Honest kōrero about caesarean birth
Above board: Honest kōrero about caesarean birth
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Contested techniques in caesarean birth: what the evidence tells us
Caesarean delivery remains one of the most common surgeries worldwide, yet technique varies widely. This presentation synthesizes AJOG’s Evidence Based Cesarean Delivery series to highlight debated practices and their implications for surgical outcomes and patient care.
Dr Dionne Mills-Sillik
Obstetrician Gynaecologist Consultant and Obstetrics Clinical Lead
Middlemore Hospital
Dr. Dionne Mills-Sillik is both a fellow of ACOG and RANZCOG.Originally from the Caribbean Island of Trinidad, she attended the University of Arizona, in the United States, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Spanish with a linguistics concentration, as well as a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physiology and a Chemistry Minor. She graduated with Honors from Ross University Medical School with her M.D. degree and completed Obstetrics and Gynaecology residency training at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, USA in 2013.
In 2021, she, her husband and their three children, moved to New Zealand. Dionne has been an Obstetrics and Gynaecology consultant at Middlemore hospital since 2021 and Obstetrics Clinical Lead since June 2025. She has also provided private gynaecology services in Auckland since 2023.