Amy Alspaugh, PhD, CNM, FACNM

Amy Alspaugh, Ph.D. (she/her), is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee. She is a dually-trained Certified Nurse-Midwife and Nurse Scientist. She received a BA in History and Russian from Haverford College, an MSN from Vanderbilt University, a PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. As a reproductive health care provider and researcher, she focuses on the various pathways to improve reproductive health care experiences from both the patient and provider experience, with an emphasis on how social and cultural discourses influence care delivery and acceptability. She also studies how to expand, strengthen, and diversify the midwifery workforce in the United States to ensure everyone has access to patient-centered midwifery care.