Howard named director of nurse midwifery at Women & Infants

Elisabeth Howard has been named director of nurse midwifery at Women & Infants Hospital. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL
Elisabeth Howard has been named director of nurse midwifery at Women & Infants Hospital. / COURTESY WOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL

PROVIDENCE – Elisabeth D. Howard has been named director of nurse midwifery in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Howard, of Warwick, joined the faculty and has been a clinical teaching associate at Women & Infants and Brown since 2004, and was promoted to assistant professor (clinical) in 2008. A graduate of William Smith College in Geneva, N.Y., Howard completed her midwifery training at the Yale University School of Nursing and earned her doctorate in nursing science from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She has served as interim director of midwifery since 2014.

“Dr. Howard is a highly valued member of our department and is recognized for her clinical experience, her national leadership, her dedication to teaching and her effective, collaborative leadership style,” Dr. Maureen G. Phipps, chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Women & Infants Hospital and executive chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Care New England Health System, said in a release. “She has made significant contributions to enhancing the national recognition of the midwifery service at Women & Infants Hospital as an academic model of inter-professional education and clinical care, working collaboratively with physicians, advance practice nurses and every member of the care delivery team.”

The mission of the nurse midwifery program is to support the educational goals of Brown University medical students and obstetric residents at Women & Infants Hospital regarding basic knowledge and skill acquisition in both obstetric triage and low-risk intrapartum care, including educational workshops. The program further augments the clinical services provided by obstetric residents within the department of obstetrics and gynecology by providing timely and expert care within the obstetric service – labor and delivery, operating room, maternal-fetal medicine, gestational diabetes clinic and obstetric triage.

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