Staff Information
Patricia Aikins Murphy CNM, DrPH, FACNM
Deputy Editor JMWH (Off-Site)
Patricia is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. She is an associate professor at the University of Utah, where she holds the Annette Poulson Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair in Women's and Reproductive Health.
Tekoa King CNM, MPH
Deputy Editor JMWH (Off-Site)
Tekoa is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health. Tekoa is an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health at the University of California at San Francisco where she is in clinical practice.
Francie Likis CNM, NP, DrPH
Editor-in-Chief JMWH (Off-Site)
Francie became the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (JMWH) in January 2008. She has been a member of the JMWH Editorial Board since 2002 and has served as a Deputy Editor, Associate Editor, and Contributing Editor. She completed her midwifery education at Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She has a bachelor of science and a master of science in nursing from Vanderbilt University and a doctorate in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a certified nurse-midwife, family nurse practitioner, and women's health care nurse practitioner. Her clinical experience includes family practice in community health and urgent care centers, and midwifery practice in a freestanding birth center and a large obstetrics and gynecology group. In addition to her work for JMWH, Francie is on the faculty of the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing and works clinically as a sexual assault examiner in Nashville.
Stephanie Bergwall
Managing Editor
Stephanie joined ACNM in June 2008 as the managing editor of the Journal of Midwifery & Womens Health. She earned a bachelors degree in religious studies from the University of Virginia, and has enjoyed working as a paralegal and private piano teacher. She brings editorial experience with her, as she was recently the editorial assistant for an American Psychological Association (APA) journal. Stephanie lives in Silver Spring with her husband and two teenage children, and has three college-age stepsons.
Anne Hyre CNM, MSN, MPH
Director
Anne Atkinson Hyre, CNM, MSN, MPH, joined ACNM staff in June 2008 as director of global outreach. Hyre came to ACNM from Jhpiego, an international nonprofit health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, where she was employed for 15 years, including eight years based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has more than 15 years of experience in strategic planning, program design, management, and program evaluation for maternal and reproductive health in the US and abroad and has worked in more than 15 developing countries in the Eurasia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Hyre also has a solid record of success in business development with donors, foundations, and corporations. She can be reached at ahyre@acnm.org.
Vacant
Program Manager
P. Annie Clark CNM, MPH
Senior Technical Advisor
Annie has been a Senior Technical Advisor for the ACNM Department of Global Outreach for nine years. Her position requires program development, technical writing, curriculum development, reviewing detailed implementation plans, presenting, facilitating workshops, assessing health facilities, evaluating and conducting clinical training for maternal and neonatal health care providers, evaluating and training trainers in teaching methodology of Life Saving Skills, and negotiating and collaborating with non-governmental organizations and ministries of health. She spends 40% of her time in developing countries. Prior to her position with ACNM, Annie practiced full scope nurse-midwifery for 18 years in California and Hawaii.
Diana Beck CNM, MS
Senior Technical Advisor (Off-Site)
Diana is a Senior Technical Advisor with ACNM's Department of Global Outreach. Diana has practiced full-scope midwifery in a variety of settings, established a midwifery service, and was nurse-midwifery faculty at Georgetown University. With over 22 years of experience in international maternal and reproductive health programs, she has worked in more than 18 countries. Her international experiences includes program design, implementation, evaluation, training, and curriculum development for traditional birth attendant training, in-service and pre-service training of nurses, midwives, and doctors, as well as midwifery association strengthening. She is the co-author of the ACNM Home Based Life Saving Skills and Save the Children/Saving Newborn Lives, Care of the Newborn Reference Manual, among other training manuals.
Lisa Paine CNM, DrPH, FACNM
Consultant
Lisa received her master's in Public Health and doctorate in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, and her master's of science in nursing and nurse-midwifery education at the University of Utah. Lisa has held academic appointments at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Boston University; she has also held a number of clinical, administrative and leadership positions in nursing, midwifery and public health. Lisa's professional contributions to the ACNM are numerous, and include the following: founding chair of the Division of Research, director of the landmark study Nurse-Midwifery Care for Vulnerable Populations in the U.S., member of the Governing Board of the Division of Accreditation, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, and trustee of the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc. She is also the 1995 recipient of ACNM's prestigious Hattie Hemschemeyer Award. As principal and senior consultant of The Hutchinson Dyer Group in Cambridge, MA, Lisa provides consultation to the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc.
Carolyn Gegor CNM, MS, FACNM
Foundation President
Carolyn L. Gegor, CNM, MS, FACNM received her BS in nursing from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and her MS in nursing and midwifery from Georgetown University School of Graduate Studies. Ms. Gegor is currently Program Director of the Georgetown University Graduate Nurse-Midwifery Program and Assistant Professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies. She has also held academic appointments at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Boston University School of Public Health, and the Frontier School of Midwifery. Among her numerous professional publications is her co-editorship of the 4th edition of the internationally recognized midwifery text, Varney's Midwifery. Ms. Gegor's professional contributions to the ACNM are numerous, and include the following: chair and board member of Service Directors' Network, member of the Clinical Practice Committee, and chair and member of the Professional Liability Section of the Division of Standards and Practice. She also has the distinction of being the founder and past chair of the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. From 2004-2006, Ms. Gegor served as Trustee and Secretary of the A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc., and since 2007 has served as President.
