Cara Osborne* (Baby+Co)
Cara is a Certified Nurse Midwife by clinical training and holds a BA in Biology from Transylvania University, a MSN in Midwifery from Vanderbilt School of Nursing, and a MS and SD in Maternal and Child Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Her academic area of interest is perinatal epidemiology. Prior to coming to work at Baby+Company full time, Cara was an Assistant Professor in the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing at University of Arkansas and a co-investigator for the American Association of Birth Centers Uniform Data Set. Cara is a reviewer for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health and a technical adviser to the board of directors for Midwives for Haiti. Cara sees Baby+Company as a vehicle for dissemination of the birth center model of care—an evidence-based, high-value strategy for maternity care that extends the range of options available to women and their families. – See more at: http://www.babyandcompany.com/team/cara-osborne/#sthash.hh2DQCmU.dpuf