Impacting As Leaders

Dr. Diana Jolles Selected for 2021 National Quality Forum Leadership Consortium

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 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.

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 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

a midwife and regularly attends regional and national meetings. She pursued this role to better serve the needs of midwives across the country and ensure the representation of all members. Dr. Golden was the secretary of the Sigma Theta Tau chapter, Chi Pi, at Frontier Nursing University from 2016-2020 and attended the international congress of Sigma Theta Tau as a delegate in 2019. Additionally, this year’s nominating committee for the ACNM elections included FNU faculty Dr. Nena Harris and Dr. Linda McDaniel. FNU Assistant Professor Dr. Cathy Collins-Fulea, DNP, CNM, FACNM, begins her second year as ACNM President with a focus on unifying midwives across the country while advocating for inclusion and celebrating diversity. FNU Faculty Inducted as ACNM Fellows

The following FNU faculty members will be inducted as ACNM Fellows at the American College of NurseMidwives (ACNM) virtual annual meeting, May 23-25:

Kim Baraona, CNM, DNP, CNE Donna Barisich, CNM, MS

Laura Manns-James, CNM, PhD, WHNP-BC, CNE

Linda McDaniel, CNM, DNP, RNFA

Ann Schaeffer, CNM, DNP, MEd, CNE

Shaughanassee Vines, CNM, DNP, CNE

Fellowship in the American College of Nurse-Midwives is an honor bestowed upon those midwives whose demonstrated leadership within ACNM, clinical excellence, outstanding scholarship, and professional achievement have merited special recognition both within and outside of the midwifery profession. The ACNM Fellowship was first established in 1994. With the addition of the 2021 Fellows, there will be 558 FACNMs.