Stacey Wilson, MSN, CNM

She has been a full scope CNM for over 30 years. Convinced that there should be a midwife at every meeting, she has served in a leadership capacity for 20 of those years.  At Kaiser Permanente she works at both local and national levels in promoting perinatal patient safety. Locally, she keeps busy as the lead of the Kaiser Westside Midwives.  With the help of others, she has developed an induction algorithm for their large group practice.  As a champion of the interprofessional collaborative model of care, she revised Kaiser’s collaborative guidelines. More recently she has focused on postpartum hemorrhage reduction.  

As a mentor for OB-GYN residents and medical and midwifery students for many years,  she teaches the soft skills, such as encouraging all learners to consider “what can I give back to this birthing person?” before ever walking into the room.  

Even at this stage in her career, she still loves catching babies in the middle of the night. In her spare time she enjoys going on adventures with her husband and their two adult sons.  She is well known in Portland as an enthusiastic chicken keeper, and many local coops hold the results of her chick nursery. 

Michele Megregian, PhD, CNM, FACNM

She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Midwifery Program and Marquam Hill Practice Manager at OHSU School of Nursing. She earned her midwifery degree from Columbia University in 1998, and went on to practice in the Chicagoland area until 2009, when she moved to Portland. Reaching back to her undergraduate philosophy roots she earned a Certificate in Biomedical Ethics at Portland State University in 2011, completed a Fellowship in Bioethics with the OHSU Center for Ethics in Healthcare in 2013, and her PhD in Ethics from Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2021. She has multiple publications on the topic of midwifery ethics and shared decision-making. When not at OHSU or driving up/down the I-5 corridor, you’ll find Michele hiking the Oregon coast and canoeing Oregon’s watertrails.

Christine Morales, DNP, CNM, FACNM

She is the Medical Director for the Nurse-Midwives at Salem Health in Oregon.  She completed graduate school in 2008 and her DNP in 2010, both at the University of Colorado Denver.  She is passionate about increasing access to midwifery care.  She has developed several quality improvement projects throughout her career aimed at improving outcomes, increasing access and continuity of care, respect for patient choice, and improving patient education.  She is currently completing a Master of Legal Studies in Healthcare Law.  When she is not working, she enjoys exploring the Oregon coast, hot yoga, playing with her dogs, and spending time with her husband and two teenage sons. 

Michelle Turney, CNM

A certified nurse-midwife with over a decade of clinical experience. She has practiced full-scope midwifery since 2013 and began integrating bodywork into her care in 2017 after training in myofascial release techniques under Dr. Carol Phillips, originator of the Side-Lying Release and Forward-Leaning Inversion. She specializes in breech balancing, pregnancy-related pain, and addressing fetal malposition and labor dystocia through manual and positional techniques. Currently a PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University entering her third year, she works under the mentorship of Dr. Ellen Tilden. Her research focuses on persistent occiput posterior (OP) fetal position.

Ellen Tilden, PhD, CNM, FACNM, FAAN

Dr. Tilden’s research addresses maternity health systems improvements to decrease maternal morbidity and mortality, with a particular focus on prenatal care, labor progress, cesarean reduction, and maternal mental health. Her work improves the quality and safety of U.S. perinatal care via influencing clinical guidelines on labor management, driving state policies on doula care reimbursement, translating mental health interventions to the prenatal care setting, and dismantling professional silos between midwifery and physician teams. Dr. Tilden is the Chief Scientific Officer at Center Mom, Inc. She serves as the Associate Editor of Birth, Data Management Chair within the American College of Nurse-Midwives Division of Research, the Institute for Medicaid Innovation and the Leapfrog Group 

Dr. Tilden earned her BA with Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College, her RN, MS, and CNM degrees from the University of California at San Francisco, and her PhD from Oregon Health and Science University. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives as well as of the American Academy of Nursing.

Michelle Turney, CNM

A certified nurse-midwife with over a decade of clinical experience. She has practiced full-scope midwifery since 2013 and began integrating bodywork into her care in 2017 after training in myofascial release techniques under Dr. Carol Phillips, originator of the Side-Lying Release and Forward-Leaning Inversion. She specializes in breech balancing, pregnancy-related pain, and addressing fetal malposition and labor dystocia through manual and positional techniques. Currently a PhD student at Oregon Health & Science University entering her third year, she works under the mentorship of Dr. Ellen Tilden. Her research focuses on persistent occiput posterior (OP) fetal position.

Joanna Wilder, DNP, CNM, CPM (she/her) 

Joanna is a mom, a midwife, and an educator. She has welcomed babies in many settings. She was first a nurse: 3 years in the hospital and 14 in a freestanding birth center. Joanna trained in a midwifery apprenticeship and became a certified professional midwife (CPM) in 2010, with a home birth practice in Phoenix for eight years. After 40 years in the desert, she returned to her Oregon roots in 2018. Joanna attended Frontier Nursing University to become a Certified Nurse Midwife, graduating in 2022 with her MSN, and 2024 with a DNP. Joanna has taught nurses and midwives, from the community college to the baccalaureate and masters level. Her practice, Mariposa Midwifery, offers integrative gynecology, prenatal and postpartum care, as well as homebirth. Joanna is passionate about creating safe, inclusive spaces for individuals to feel at home in their bodies. She loves seeing folks own their body-story journey and experience the power of respectful trauma-informed care.

Kestrel Gates

She is a mother and perinatal health advocate living in Clatsop County on the Oregon Coast. She developed the Build Your Nest Postpartum Navigator Pilot Project, a community-based program that helps families prepare for the postpartum time and supports them through the first three months. The program is fiscally sponsored by Baby Blues Connection, a perinatal health organization based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the Build Your Nest postpartum planning workbook which has been translated into six languages. She is currently on the Oregon Perinatal Collaborative steering committee, is the chair for the Resilient Clatsop County community sector workgroup, and is the co-founder of the Clatsop Perinatal Task Force. She is a La Leche League leader and has training in doula work, lactation, and perinatal mental health. She brings her lived experience as a parent and community member to this work with a passion for creating systems and cultures of care.