2001 Foundation Award Recipients

A.C.N.M. Foundation announces Leadership Award recipients

Nancy Jo Reedy, CNM, MPH, President of the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce the recipients of the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. Leadership Award supported by the Service Directory Network.

Patricia Beckman, CNM, MPH, Carol G. Jones, CNM and Darryn Dunbar, APN/CNM, MS have been selected to receive the awards for 2001. The recipients will receive a stipend to attend the Midwifery Business Institute at the University of Michigan in November.

Trish Beckman is co-director of the Alivo Medical Center Nurse-Midwifery Service in Chicago. She works with a staff of 15 midwives who serve a community of very low income Mexican immigrant women and their families, attending 1,200 births each year. Trish has been co-director for a year and intends to use the knowledge gained to effectively and efficiently conduct the business of her busy midwifery service.

Carol Jones is the Midwifery Director of Virginia Mason's Nurse-Midwifery Service in Seattle, a service that was established in 1979. The service recently received news that the medical center will eliminate both Midwifery and Obstetrical services in November. She plans to use knowledge gained from the institute to establish a new service.

Darryn Dunbar is Director of the Midwife Associates of Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago. Under his leadership, midwifery services are now available in places where nurse-midwives have not been welcomed in the past. He will apply the principles learned at the Institute in his day to day practice, as a clinician and a practice director.

Frances Thacher, Chair of the Selection Committee said, "The competitive applications for this award made the decision making process extremely difficult. All applicants submitted thoughtful and compelling requests for this award."

As a result of attending the Institute the recipients will become stronger and more visible leaders within their practice, their community and the midwifery profession. This is the first year for this award that is supported by the Service Directors Network. Special thanks to those Service Directors who made this award a reality through their contributions.

The Leadership Award will be given annual. Guidelines and applications will be available in April or May for the 2002 award on the ACNM website at www.acnm.org/Found. Contributions to support the Leadership award can be sent to the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. Office at 818 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 900, Washington D.C. 20006.

Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical/A.C.N.M. Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Education

Jennifer Foster, CNM University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Jennifer graduated from the University of Mississippi Midwifery Education Program in 1982. For 18 years she practiced clinically as a nurse-midwife in very diverse cultural settings that shared a common attribute: locations of vulnerable populations that were medically under served. The specific focus of her dissertation is how young fathers (whose partners are teenage mothers) understand fathering and what the community expects of them as fathers. Her project will explore the meaning of childbearing and the effect of gender relations upon it in an economically marginalized community.

TUMS CalciumForLife Endowed Scholarship presented by GlaxoSmithKline

Stephanie Welsh, Yale School of Nursing

Stephanie was a staff photojournalist and in 1996 received the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography prior to entering Yale to become a midwife. She said that in her life as a photographer, the subject of childbirth was the most inspiring to her. Jennifer plans to draw upon her skills in communication and observation, along with her midwifery education to empower women to guide their own process of birth and health care choices.

A.C.N.M. Foundation Memorial Scholarship

Sarah R. Cox, Frontier School of Midwifery

Sarah plans to provide prenatal and well-women care for under served women in Idaho and hopes to complete her doctoral in nursing in the future. She will continue her community education efforts, teaching classes on health and wellness to marginalized women.

Edith B. Wonnell CNM Scholarship

* Awarded specifically to a student who intends to practice in an out of hospital setting

Abigail Rose Lanin, University of New Mexico

Abigail hopes to work with under served populations and teenagers in her native New Mexico. Eventually she would like to open her own birthing center in new Mexico that will create a truly holistic atmosphere of prenatal care, labor, delivery and family-centered care.

2001 Varney Participant Award

Heather M. Bradford, SNM, University of Pennsylvania

Jennifer Nelson Schirmer, SNM, University of Rhode Island

Excellence in Teaching Awards

The A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. is pleased to recognize the following individuals for their outstanding service to student midwives. Each midwifery educational program may select an individual to receive this award. The list below recognizes all individuals who were recognized in 2001.

• Cynthia Belew
  UCSF/SFGH, Interdepartmental Nurse-Midwifery Education Program
• Sheila Bennett, CNM
  Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies
• Tina Burke, Ph.D., CNM
  University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• Lori Cabbage, MSN, CNM, FNP
  Vanderbilt University, School of Nursing
• Virginia Crandall, RN, MSN, CNM
  University of Miami, School of Nursing, Master's Program
• Judy D. Dulin, Ph.D., ARNP
  University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing
• Janet Engstrom, CNM, PhD
  University of Illinois
• Barbara Hackley
  Yale University, School of Nursing
• Dorothee L. Hampton
  University of Texas at El Paso/Texas Tech HSC
• Holly P. Kennedy, Ph.D., CNM, RN
  University of Rhode Island, College of Nursing
• Cara J. Keulewitch, CNM, PhD
  University of Maryland at Baltimore
• Nanny Murell, RN, CNM, PhD
  University of Texas at Galveston
  School of Nursing
• Michelle H. O'Grady, MS, CNM
  University of Michigan
• Alice H. Poe, CNM, DSN(c), FACNM
  University of Florida, College of Nursing
• Jo-Anna L. Rorie, CNM, FACNM
  Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Maternal & Child Health
• Barbara Scanlon, CNM
  University of Medicine & Dentistry of
  New Jersey
  
• Marcia Scoville, CNM, MS
  University of Utah, College of Nursing
• Kathryn Shisler Harrod, CNM, DNSc
  Marquette University, College of Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery Program
• B.J. Snell, PhD, CNM, WHCNP
  University of Southern California
  Department of Nursing
• Winnie Thomas, Midwife Tutor
  Institute of Midwifery, Women and Health

2001 Wyeth-Ayerst Student Reporter Awards

The A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. Board of Trustees thanks Wyeth-Ayerst for its continued support of the Student Reporter program. For 2001, student nurse-midwives were selected from 30 educational programs to attend the annual meeting and write a paper about their experiences. Wyeth-Ayerst awarded each of the Student Reporters with a luncheon and a stipend. The 2001 Student Reporters are:

• Jensine Quealy, SNM
  Baystate Medical Center
• Anna Bennett, SNM
  Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing
• Ann Marie Fenn, SNM
  Institute of Midwifery, Women and Health
• Anna Marie Pagano, SNM
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Brica Fischer, SNM
  Boston University
• Leslie A. Stroud, SNM
  Case Western Reserve University
• Nancy E. Martinez, SNM
  Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
• Brigitte Raahauge, SNM
  Columbia University
• Beverly Patton, SNM
  Emory University
• Tracy Seiler-Schultz, SNM
  Marquette University
• Susan Thul, SNM
  Medical University of South Carolina
• Elizabeth Christy, SNM
  Ohio State University
• Megan Sullivan, RN, BSN, SNM
  Oregon Health Sciences University
• Carol Decker Clopper, SNM
  Shenandoah University
• Joni Zaritz, SNM
  State University of New York Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn
• Linda Faydo, SNM
  University of California, Los Angeles
• Shaanti Foerster, SNM
  University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital
• Kathy McClish, SNM
  University of Cincinnati
• Tammy Norbeck, SNM
  University of Florida
• Kelly McKune, SNM
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Annette VanAnne, SNM
  University of Kansas
• Susan Culperrer Martin, SNM
  University of Miami
• Maria D. Rodriguez , SNM
  University of Puerto Rico
• Susan Roberts, SNM
  University of Southern California
• Sandra Lynch, SNM
  University of Texas at El Paso/Texas Tech University
• Mary Coker, SNM
  University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• Cecily Benson Floyd, SNM
  University of Utah
• Peggy Dunlop, SNM
  University of Washington
• Carey Griffin, SNM
  Vanderbilt University
• Dana Catherine Quealy, SNM
  Yale University