Helen Varney, CNM, MSN, MSN, FACNM - Yale University School of Nursing - Nurse Midwifery Program, New Haven, Connecticut

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.

Carolyn L. Gegor, CNM, MS, FACNM - Georgetown University, Washington, Washington D.C.

Carolyn L. Gegor is currently teaching midwifery at Georgetown University. She established midwifery practices at both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University to provide full scope care to women, to teach, and to participate in research. Ms. Gegor has lectured and published on midwifery, ultrasound, and professional liability. Her goal has always been to further the profession and philosophy of midwifery with respect for women and through the appropriate use of technology. Ms. Gegor has been active with ACNM in the areas of Clinical Practice and Professional Liability, and is a member of the ACNM Foundation Board of Directors.