Barbara Hackley, BSN, MS, RN, CNM - Nurse-Midwifery Specialty - Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut

Barbara Hackley has worked for over twenty-five years in midwifery practice, education, and public health. She taught at Columbia and Georgetown University before joining the faculty at Yale University School of Nursing in 1997. She is a two-time recipient of the ACNM Excellence in Teaching Award and was awarded the 2001 Yale School of Nursing Annie W. Goodrich Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her primary areas of interest focus on how to adapt clinical care and service delivery to effectively meet the health care needs of disadvantaged women. Her clinical work and scholarship has focused on expanding traditional OB/GYN services to routinely include primary care services such as immunizations, weight management, mental health care, and environmental health screening.

Jan M. Kriebs, CNM, MSN, FACNM - University of Maryland School of Medicine, Maryland

Jan Kriebs is director of the midwifery practice and assistant professor in the Department of OB/GYN at the University of Maryland Medical School. She is a graduate of the Yale University nurse-midwifery program, and has over 20 years experience in clinical practice. She participated in the USPHS Primary Care Policy Fellowship in 1997, and was elected to fellowship in the ACNM the same year. She is currently a regional representative on the ACNM Fellowship Board of Governors. As the co-author of Varney's Midwifery, Fourth Edition, and co-editor of the forthcoming primary care text for midwives, she remains committed to ensuring access to the highest quality care for all women, and the promotion of midwifery as the standard of women's health care.

Mary Ellen Rousseau, BSN, MS, RN, CNM, FACNM - Director, Yale University School of Nursing Midwifery Education Program, New Haven, Connecticut
Mary Ellen Rousseau is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Midwifery Education Program at Yale University School of Nursing. She is a fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives. She continues to practice full scope midwifery care but specializes in midlife health of women.