Biography

Dawn Lovelace, CNM, FNP, DNP, FACNM, is Course Coordinator for the midwifery clinical courses. She has been Regional Clinical Faculty for the Pacific Northwest Region from 2014 through 2024, covering the states of Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and Hawaii, and has relocated to upstate New York in 2024. She has been a course faculty member for NM703, Primary Care of Women; NP700, Scholarly Writing; and NP706, Pediatrics. Prior teaching includes extensive experience as a clinical preceptor for both nurse practitioner and medical students. Dr. Lovelace has spent more than 20 years in clinical practice, as both a Certified Nurse-Midwife and a Family Nurse Practitioner, with a full scope of practice in both roles at a critical access hospital in a remote rural area of Washington State. While there, she developed the maternity services program, bringing care to a community that lacked them. She helped rewrite the hospital bylaws, giving Nurse Practitioners voting rights on the Medical Staff. She was also chair of the Obstetrics/Pediatrics committee and actively involved in staff development and education. Dr. Lovelace received a Certificate in Nurse Midwifery from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1994, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing from Case Western University. She received a Post-Masters Certificate as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Washington State University and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Frontier Nursing University in May 2013. Clinical interests include preventive and holistic care for women and their families. The change to a full-time academic career working with the next generation of nurse midwives is a continuation of her life journey to bring safe, humane health care to communities, especially those without adequate resources.