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Carol O'Donoghue, MSN, MPH, CNM

Carol O'Donoghue, MSN, MPH, CNM recently joined the PENN midwifery faculty as a part-time lecturer in September 2006.  Carol graduated from the University Rhode Island School of Nursing with a post-master's certificate in Nurse-Midwifery after a 15-year journey that began in the last 1980s when she gained experience as a doula at the Familyborn Birth and Women's Health Center in New Jersey.  After graduating from Oberlin College in 1989, Carol carried out work in west Africa in a maternal-child health center, and returned to the United States to pursue her many interests in health.  Her education includes a Master's in Nursing from the MGH Institute in Health Professions in Boston, MA, where she gained certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 1997, a Master's in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston in 2000, and her midwifery education, completed in 2002.  Along the way, Carol worked as an AIDS educator, labor and delivery staff nurse, and practiced as a Family Nurse Practitioner in New Hampshire, Vermont, Alaska and Ohio. 

Carol currently practices as a full-scope, staff nurse-midwife at Chestnut Hill Hospital, a Philadelphia community hospital, where she precepts family practice residents and medical students in addition to midwifery students.  She is a certified ALSO (Advanced Lifesaving in Obstetrics) Instructor and also serves counseling women suffering from perinatal depression and anxiety disorders at the Pierce Women's Mood Center at Chestnut Hill Hospital.

Carol participates in the Intrapartum/Postpartum/Newborn as well as the Well-Woman Gynecology classes at PENN.  She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children.