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Carolyn Havens Niemann,
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BIO
Carolyn Havens Niemann CNM, MSN,
earned a BA degree from Princeton University in 1989 and a Master's Degree in
Nurse-Midwifery from University of California, San Francisco in 1994. Following
graduation, she joined the National Health Service Corps and served as a
nurse-midwife at New York's Harlem Hospital. She then spent nearly five years at
the Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center, a freestanding birth center in
Manhattan. She comes to us most recently from Ventura County, California where
she worked in private practice and precepted students at California State
University. She has also served as a clinical instructor for students at
Columbia University, New York University and SUNY Downstate's midwifery
programs. Carolyn is the mother of three sons, all of whom were born with
midwives.
EDUCATION
1994 University of California, San
Francisco/San Diego Intercampus Study Program
Masters of Science in Nursing
Certified Nurse-Midwife, OB/GYN Nurse
Practitioner
1992 University of California, San
Francisco Master's Entry Program in Nursing
Registered Nurse
1989 Princeton University
BA, History; Certificates in
Afro-American Studies and American Studies
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
The Woman's Place, Camarillo, CA
(2003-2007)
Staff midwife in full-scope private
practice.
Providing prenatal, intrapartum,
postpartum, and well-woman care to women of all ages.
Experienced in performing
transvaginal early-pregnancy ultrasounds.
Website manager, designing and
maintaining practice's website,
www.thewomansplace.com
HEALTH CARE EXPERIENCE
Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center,
New York, NY (1998-2003)
- Staff midwife in freestanding
birth center, with privileges at St. Vincents Hospital.
- Providing prenatal, intrapartum,
postpartum, and well-woman care to women of all ages.
- Clinical preceptor for midwifery
students from NYU, Columbia, SUNY Downstate and CNEP programs.
- Quality Assurance Coordinator,
overseeing chart review within birth center and attending QA meetings with
medical staff at St. Vincents
- Search Committee member,
participating in interviewing candidates for clinical directorship of birth
center
Renaissance Health Care Network, New
York, NY (1994-1998)
- Clinical midwife in community
health center in central Harlem, providing prenatal, postpartum and
well-woman care to women of all ages. Scope of practice including well-woman
gynecology, STD testing and treatment, family planning, preconception
counseling, basic infertility, postmenopausal care, and childbirth
education. Delivery privileges at Harlem Hospital Center
Mt. St. Joseph/ St. Elizabeth, San
Francisco, CA (1992-1993)
- Registered Nurse in group home for
pregnant and parenting teens, coordinating prenatal clinic, and providing
childbirth experience
The Fourth Trimester, San Francisco, CA
(1990-1991)
- In-home postpartum care provider,
assisting new parents in breastfeeding, infant care, and pychosocial
adjustment to parenting
Family Born Center, Princeton, NJ
(1989-1990)
- Birth Assistant, supporting
laboring women and their families throughout the birthing process and
assisting midwives in a freestanding birth center.
Operation Crossroads Africa, Khartoum,
Sudan (Summer, 1987)
- Volunteer in a development program
observing medical facilities and constructing a school
ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
ATTENDED
2005 Advanced Fetal Monitoring,
Michelle Murray, instructor, NY, NY
2003 ACNM National Conference, Palm Desert, CA
2002 Centering Pregnancy Workshop, Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center, NY, NY
2000 NACC Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Limited Third Trimester Ultrasound Assessment, SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Midwifery Today Conference, NY, NY
1996 Midwifery Today Conference, NY, NY
1993 MANA Convention, San Francisco, CA
1991 Childbirth Educator certification course, Full Circle Childbirth, Oakland,
CA
1990 Heart & Hands Midwifery Intensive Course, Elizabeth Davis, San Francisco,
CA
PUBLICATIONS AND TV APPEARANCES
"A Baby Story " The Learning Channel,
October, 2002
"Natural Childbirth in America" Reuters International News Agency, June,
2001.
"Choices in Childbirth" Gay Parents Press, March, 2001
"The Modern Midwife" Univision, March, 2000
"Catching Babies: The Art and Science of Midwifery Care" Online publication:
www.birthcenter.org
Numerous publications in Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center's quarterly
newsletter
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Proficient in medical Spanish.
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