Suzan Ulrich

 

Dr. Suzan Ulrich has been a midwife since 1983 and a nursing educator for over 40 years. She is currently the Director of Midwifery Education at The George Washinton University School of Nursing. Previoulsy, she was an Associate Professor at Oak Point University in Chicago, Illinois teaching in the online DNP program and chairing the BSN curriculum revision task force. Prior to that she served as the Dean of Nursing and Respiratory Care at Saint Catherine University in Saint Paul Minnesota from 2013 to 2018. She was at Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Kentucky for 13 years as a faculty member and then Associate Dean for Midwifery and Women’s Health. She was the Director of the North Shore Birth Center in Beverly Massachusetts from 1991 until 2000 and presided over an expansion of the facility as well as an increase in the number of births. Suzan is dedicated to midwifery education. She recently completed 9 years as a member of the Board of Review for Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (BOR/ACME) and has returned to serving as a senior site visitor which she did prior her work on the BOR. Suzan is an active member of American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM). She is Chair of the Division for the Advancement of Midwifery (DAM) and a member of the Ethics Committee. Suzan also served in leadership positions in the American Association of Birth Centers (AABC) including as vice-president. She was inducted into the Fellowship of the ACNM in 2008. Suzan is an Alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Executive Nurse Fellows Cohort 2012 and currently serves on the board of directors of NurseTRUST, the alumni association of the executive nurse fellows.