Over 45 years of experience in Midwifery and Advanced Practice Nursing in a variety of settings, including rural public health, education/academics, private practice, student health, low-risk birth center care, and professional/legislative activities. A Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer since 2000. Have presented at numerous conferences across the Southeast Region and across the country. Authorship includes "Tele-Ultrasound: Meeting global challenges", in APPLIED RADIOLOGY Jan 2024; Maternal-Fetal Imaging for Global Health Radiology, chapter in the upcoming revised edition of RADIOLOGY IN GLOBAL HEALTH, Springer (first publication 2018) Additional publications include "Keepsake Ultrasound: Taking another look", published in June 2016 in the JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY NURSING. Previously published: "Emotional Needs of Teens with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome", printed in the January 2012 issue of the JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC NURSING.Adjunct faculty University of Nairobi School of Nursing, Nairobi KenyaAdjoint lecturer and preceptor, Vanderbilt University School of NursingSpeaker at RAD-AID Conference in Washington DC, November 2023Speaker at the Maternal Health Summit on Nov 10, 2022, Nairobi, Kenya. Sponsored by Kenya Healthcare Federation and Inteleos. Topic: Curriculum development for training of midwives in point-of-care ultrasound.Speaker at the 2nd World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education at USC, Columbia, South Carolina, in 2013.Served 6 years on the Joint Committee for Advanced Nursing Practice of the Boards of Nursing and Medical Examiners of the State of Alabama. Awards2020 Nurse and Midwife of the Year, Nurses with Global Impact, United Nations 2019 Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives2014 by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners the Nurse Practitioner Advocate State Award for Excellence for the State of Alabama. Professional Goals: 1. To provide compassionate and individualized healthcare to women and their families, including mental and spiritual concerns. To assure all women's voices are heard.2. Promote midwifery care and use of ultrasound globally to underserved areas needing assistance in improving adverse maternal-fetal outcomes.Specialties: Midwifery, OB/GYN Sonography, Treatment of Teens and Adult Women with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), Management of Perimenopausal Symptoms, Global Women's Health