President of HUG Your Baby, LLC Jan Tedder is a family nurse practitioner and lactation consultant who researched and developed the award-winning HUG Your Baby concepts and resources. She earned degrees in nursing from UNC-Charlotte and UNC-Chapel Hill and studied for decades the work of renowned Harvard pediatrician, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. She is certified in both his Touchpoints program and his Newborn Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS). Jan has been honored as the North Carolina Maternal Health Nurse of the Year and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, the national honorary society for nurses. She speaks at professional conferences around the world and has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is a clinician and an instructor of family practice residents at UNC-Chapel Hill Family Medicine Center. (See Jan's resume).
Vice President of Research and Education, Director of "HUG for Dads"
Jim Henderson, Phd, brings skills to HUG Your Baby as an educator, editor, journalist and administrator with experience in public relations, publications and fund raising. He earned an undergraduate degree at Gettysburg College, a master's degree at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. at Duke University. For thirty years Jim worked as a teacher and administrator at Carolina Friends School (Durham, North Carolina), where he gained day-to-day experience with innovative and effective approaches to teaching the hearts, minds and spirits of our next generation. A lifelong musician, Jim has performed professionally for six decades as a saxophone, keyboard and guitar player and has also worked as a composer, songwriter and arranger. In recent years he created a musical, Ariel's Way, that is a modern retelling of William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Certified HUG Trainers
Gale Touger, BSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, CHT is the first HUG Your Baby Trainer. She has worked professionally with families for thirty-five+ years and more recently excels as "Grandma Par Excellence" (shown here). Gale studied at Boston University, Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. She was honored as the NC Nurse Practitioner of the Year, received the Barbara Bennett Peer Assistance Award, and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society. Over her career she studied with (and is a major fan of!) Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and became certified in Brazelton's Touchpoints and the Brazelton Center's CLNBAS teaching exam (now known as the NBO). Gale completed the Certified HUG Teacher program and now integrates this resource into her work in Beaufort, SC, serving among other patients and clients, many USA military families. As a HUG Trainer Gale teaches local professionals, helps to study and develop the HUG curriculum, and joins Jan in "Giving a HUG" to parents and professionals across the USA. She is currently completing research on the impact of teaching The HUG to professionals in outpatient settings.   HUG Research Advisor Maryam Mozafarinia, RN, MSN, CHT recently completed a Master's degree in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing from Teheran University School of Nursing, where she became the first Certified HUG Teacher in Iran. She is living in Canada with plans to complete a DNP with a focus on neonatal nursing. In addition to her studies, she finds time to use her research and analysis skills to help HUG professionals with the development and publication of studies on the impact of The HUG on parents and the professionals who serve them. HUG Your Baby International
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