Ira Linetsky is a senior midwife and educator with over two decades of clinical and academic experience. Serves as a lecturer and simulation coordinator at Ruppin Academic Center and as a senior midwife at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center. Ira is a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa, researching PTSD among midwives and pain phenomena during the labor. Ira has presented at international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. Her expertise includes women’s health and education and her work focuses on improving clinical preparedness, communication, and cultural competence through innovative, hands-on training methods in nursing and midwifery