Blue Ridge OB/Gyn Associates

I knew I was passionate about pursuing a career in midwifery when I had the opportunity to study abroad and work hands-on in South Africa and Tanzania for five weeks during my senior year of nursing school. Shortly after nursing school, I started working as a labor and delivery nurse and fell in love with the labor process and caring for women while helping them feel supported and empowered. In addition to labor and delivery, I enjoy educating and providing support with lactation postpartum. An area of clinical special interest is providing preconception counseling and contraception management. I am so excited to provide continuity of care to women across the lifespan in North Carolina. When I am not at work, I enjoy spending time with my family, traveling and watching rom-coms.

I began my career in women’s health over ten years ago where I fell in love with labor and delivery while working at The Duke Birthing Center in Durham, NC. The Duke Birthing Center is a high-risk tertiary labor and delivery unit which afforded me the opportunity to connect and learn from many of the greatest physicians and midwives in the world of obstetrics. I also served as a clinical instructor for the Duke University School of Nursing. It was during this time that I saw the value of collaborative care between physicians and midwives, as well as student learners. The unique insights of midwives as experts in normal labor and birth was key to a balanced approach to obstetric care in an academic setting. These experiences were instrumental in molding delivery of care to ensure ALL women, no matter their health status, received focused-centered care that normalized their hospital stay. I knew becoming a certified nurse midwife would enable me to reach even more women. When I am not at work, I enjoy spending time with my family and my fur baby, a Labradoodle named Gunner.