• Founder and former Director (25-years), Reading Birth and Women’s Center, Reading, PA
• Chair, American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) Research Committee
• CABC site visitor
• MSN from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
• CNM from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• DNP from Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing (FSMFN)

• Clinical Director, Baby Moon Inn, Phoenix, AZ
• Faculty CNM, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
• MSN from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
• CNM from FSMFN
• CABC site visitor

• Director, Human Resources, St. Luke’s Physician Group, Bethlehem, PA
• Immediate past-president of the CABC
• Worked as administrative liaison between Allentown-Bethlehem Birth & Midwifery Center in Allentown, PA and St Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, PA
• MHSA from The George Washington University, Washington, DC
• CABC site visitor

• Obstetrician/Gynecologist, Reading, PA
• Owner, Reading Birth & Women’s Center
• Collaborative physician for Reading Birth & Women’s Center since 1988
• DO from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Melanie Dossey, CNM

• Founder/Owner/Clinical Director, Nativiti Women’s Health and Birth Center, Houston, TX
• CABC site visitor
• CNM from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

• Founder/Executive director, Juneau Family Health and Birth Center, Juneau, AK
• Completed midwifery training by apprenticeship in Portland, OR, and Las Cruces, NM
• Helped create the Alaska CDM Licensing Board
• Earned certificate in non-profit management from the Foraker Group

Denise Roy, MSN, CNM

• Former clinical director, current staff nurse-midwife at The Birth Center, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Former CABC President
• CABC site visitor
• MSN/CNM from University of Pennsylvania

• Pediatrician, Tucson, AZ
• Member of the QA Committee for the Birth and Women’s Center, Tucson, AZ
• MD from Upstate Medical School, Syracuse, NY
• MPH from University of Arizona
• Completed pediatric residency at Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, NY, and Montefiore Hospital, New York, NY
• Completed adolescent medicine fellowship at Mt. Sinai, New York, NY

• Co-founder and Director, Special Beginnings Birth Center, Arnold, MD
• Co-founder and former owner, The Baltimore Birth Center
• CABC site visitor
• BSN from The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
• RN from Albert Einstein Medical Center, School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA