President
Frontier Nursing University
Frontier Nursing University
Berea, Kentucky, United States
Susan E. Stone, CNM, DNSc, FACNM, FAAN
Dr. Susan E. Stone, a certified nurse-midwife, is a leader in strategic development to increase the diversity, quality and capacity of the midwifery and advanced practice nursing workforce, with the specific goal of improving health care for families. Her primary position for the last two decades is as the President of Frontier Nursing University where she has grown the University from a community-based school of nurse-midwifery offering a basic certificate program with 200 students enrolled, to an accredited University offering masters and doctoral degrees to nurses seeking graduate education as nurse-midwives and nurse practitioners. Today the University has over 2,500 graduate and doctoral nursing students enrolled from every state in the United States. The focus is educating primary care providers to serve rural and underserved populations. Within its degree programs the university now offers tracks leading nurses to certification as nurse-midwives, family nurse practitioners, women’s health care nurse practitioners, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners. Dr. Stone is a past president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) from 2019-2020, where her agenda included increasing the midwifery workforce through educational quality and capacity strategies, midwifery advocacy focusing on the maternal mortality and morbidity crisis, and growing diversity in the healthcare workforce. She was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine Class of 2018 as one of only two nurses in her class. She believes collaboration with other healthcare professionals is essential to improve the health of women and families and fosters this approach in her various roles. She can be reached at susan.stone@frontier.edu.
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Oral Presentation Session 1.04: Organizing and Disrupting for System Transformation
Monday, April 8, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
Monday, April 8, 2024
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time