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Commissioners

Officers

President: Susan Stapleton, DNP, CNM, FACNM
Susan Stapleton, DNP, CNM, FACNM

  • 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
  • BSN 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

Vice-President: Connie Garcia, MSN, CNM                                                                                                                                                    

  • Faculty CNM, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
  • MSN from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  • CNM from Frontier School of Midwifery & Family Nursing
  • CABC site visitor
Treasurer: Kaye Kanne, CDM, CPM
Kaye Kanne, CDM, CPM

  • 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

Commissioners

Dominic J. Cammarano, III, DO, FACOG
Dominic J. Cammarano, III, DO, FACOG

  • 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
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

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
Ann Sober, RN, BSN
Ann Sober, RN, BSN

  • Co-founder, owner 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

Abbie Synan

  • Administrator, Valley Birth Place Birth Center and Woman Care, Huntingdon Valley, PA
  • BS in Journalism and French, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Administrative Assistant 

Michele DeAngelo

  • Birth center mother & advocate
  • Staff member at Reading Birth & Women’s Center, Reading, PA for 12 years

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