Biography:

Luba Butska has a BHSc from Ryerson University’s Midwifery Education Program in Toronto and a PhD in Linguistics from Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. She has practiced full scope midwifery for eleven years, first practicing in Calgary where she was also an Assistant Professor of Midwifery at Mount Royal University. After moving to Vancouver in 2016, she became a practicing midwife with privileges at St. Paul’s Hospital and a clinical faculty member at UBC. She was appointed as Instructor to the UBC Midwifery Program in 2018.

Luba has leadership experience in midwifery regulatory and professional bodies: she was an Alberta Association of Midwives member of the College Steering Committee, the first Chair of the Practice Review Committee of the College of Midwives of Alberta, and a committee member of the Provincial Midwifery Executive at Alberta Health Services. In 2017 she became a committee member of the College of Midwives of British Columbia’s Quality Assurance Committee.

Teaching has been part of Luba’s work since her training as a Linguist at the University of Toronto and Rutgers University. She has taught linguistics, English and Ukrainian language, and enjoys working with and teaching students and midwives from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Luba has experience assessing and teaching midwifery competencies as a College assessor, Midwifery preceptor for undergraduate midwives and internationally trained midwives, and as an instructor in undergraduate midwifery programs in Alberta and at the University of British Columbia.