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Associate Professor
Scott and White Hospital and Clinic
Texas A&M University
Temple, TX

Robert C. Cefalo, MD
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC

Michelle Collins, CNM, MSN
Certified Nurse Midwife
Clinical Faculty
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Heather Reynolds CNM, MSN, FACNM
Associate Professor
Nurse-Midwifery Program
Yale Medical Center
New Haven, CT

Sidney S. Wu, MD
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, NY

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PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER
Special Issue 2006
Jack Henning