Impacting As Leaders
Dr. Diana Jolles Selected for 2021 National Quality Forum Leadership Consortium the continuum of care through strategic guidance on practical, action-oriented initiatives. Dr. Jolles is recognized as a national leader, largely for the development of the Denver Health Medical Center inpatient midwifery service and her directorship of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, DC. In addition to her role as DNP faculty at FNU, Dr. Jolles works at El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, where she attends families at El Rio’s Birth and Women’s Health Center and Tucson Medical Center.
Dr. Diana Jolles, Ph.D., CNM FNU DNP clinical faculty Diana Jolles, Ph.D., CNM, has been selected to participate in the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) 2021 Leadership Consortium. NQF’s Leadership Consortium provides strategic guidance of current and future NQF programs and is committed to influencing meaningful and lasting change on the nation’s healthcare issues. Dr. Jolles, along with 30 other healthcare experts selected for the Consortium, will help determine the organization’s 2022 priorities. The NQF Leadership Consortium includes patient partners, clinicians, health plans, and quality improvement experts. These experts and thought leaders leverage their collective expertise to identify actionable strategies and national policy levers to drive change for individuals and their families. Leadership Consortium participants are committed to influencing meaningful and lasting change on our nation’s highest priority and most complex healthcare issues across
FNU Faculty Elected to ACNM Board of Directors
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACMN) recently announced the winners of this year’s election to the Board of Directors. Among the winners were FNU faculty members Charlotte Morris, and Dwynn Golden. The new Board members were sworn into office at the ACNM Annual Meeting, May 21-25. At-Large Midwife of Color Board Representative:
Charlotte Morris, DNP, CNM, FACNM
FNU Assistant Professor Dr. Charlotte Morris is course faculty in two courses: Introduction to Independent Practice and Gynecologic Health. In addition
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to her coursework, Dr. Morris serves as a tutor for students needing additional academic support. She also serves as the Co-Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee, supporting the work of the Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Morris has spent over 30 years in clinical practice committed to midwifery care for women in underserved communities. She established and served as Director of Temple Hospital’s Midwifery Practice in Philadelphia for over ten years. In 2012, she expanded her education and earned her DNP from Temple University. In ACNM, Dr. Morris has served as Chair of the Membership Committee and Secretary of the Midwives of Color Committee (MOCC) under two different chairs. She also served as an elected member of the Nominating Committee and serves on ACNM Liability Committee. ACNM Nominating Committee Member:
Dwynn Golden, DNP, CNM Dr. Dwynn Golden has worked at Frontier Nursing University as clinical and didactic faculty for midwifery and women’s health nurse practitioner students since 2012. She has been a midwife since 1993. Dr. Golden was in a full-scope practice from 1992-2012, then was the manager at a prenatal clinic, where she brought Centering Pregnancy to the practice. Dr. Golden has been an active ACNM member since she became
