Biography

Heidi is a certified family nurse practitioner and certified nurse-midwife with degrees from Juniata College, Yale School of Nursing, and Frontier Nursing University. She is currently a doctoral student of midwifery at the Midwifery Institute at Jefferson, with a focus on understanding students' clinical experiences, particularly for students of color. Heidi has practiced clinically in community health centers and in large health care organizations as a family nurse practitioner and as a certified nurse-midwife. She has attended women in labor at home, in community hospitals, and in tertiary healthcare centers. Additionally, across a variety of settings, she has supported the development of midwifery teams, integration with local community birth partners, precepted student nurse practitioners, student nurse-midwives, and family medicine residents, served as field supervisor for women’s studies students, and participated in a Chilean community health education program. She is delighted to be a part of the Frontier family.