• 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 The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• 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

• 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

• 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

Fred Damon, MHSA, CMPE

• 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

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

Katherine Gallagher

• Founder/Chair, Lane County Friends of the Birth Center, Eugene, OR
• BA, Political Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• Master of Public Policy, UCB, Berkeley, CA

Stan Shaffer, MD, MTS, FAAP

• Neonatologist, Kansas City, MO
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
• MD from University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
• Completed pediatric residency at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO,
• Completed neonatology fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
• Founder Helping Babies Breathe – neonatal resuscitation program in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
• Founder Maison de Naissance – a maternity center providing free maternal and child health care in rural Haiti

Ann Sober, RN, BSN

• 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

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