Tracey Rippon is a Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) and full time assistant professor at the Midwifery & Women's Health Programs at Jefferson. Ms. Rippon currently acts as the clinical coordinator for students in the midwifery program and faculty for the clinical courses. Ms. Rippon has over 25 years of experience working with childbearing families, initially as a nurse in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With an opportunity to travel internationally, she obtained a Master of Midwifery Science from LaTrobe University in Australia. Clinically, she worked as a Registered Midwife (RM) at a large teaching hospital in Melbourne. In addition, Ms. Rippon also worked as a research assistant at the Mother and Child Health Research Center in Melbourne and was a project coordinator for a pilot of a randomized controlled trial evaluating an individualized postnatal hospital stay with home visitation by midwives. This experience validated her belief that midwifery research is essential to provide an evidence base for practice as well as develop models of care that are feasible and desired by childbearing families and providers.

In the United States, Ms. Rippon also has experience as a Nurse-Manager for a large academic hospital-based OB-GYN clinic in Providence, Rhode Island as well as a high risk inpatient antenatal unit in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she has eight years of clinical education experience as a Perinatal Nurse Educator at two large teaching hospitals. With extensive simulation training, she is passionate about simulation for clinical education experiences with interprofessional clinical team members. Ms. Rippon is also an Advanced and Intermediate AWHONN Fetal Heart Monitoring Instructor as well as an American Academy of Pediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Provider Instructor.

In order to practice as a CNM in the US, Ms. Rippon sought a second Master of Science in Midwifery and is a graduate of the Midwifery & Women's Health Programs at Jefferson. With her international midwifery experience, clinical management and educational background, she brings a well-rounded view as faculty for the program. Ms. Rippon feels privileged to support and engage in midwifery education and research in order to advance the practice of midwifery in the US.

• Forster,D.A., Savage,T.L., McLachlan,H.L., Gold,L., Farrell,T., Rayner,J., Yelland,J., Rankin,B., and Lovell,B. (2014). Individualised, flexible postnatal care: A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial, BMC Health Services Research, (14)1, 569. Fleming P.F., Forster D., Savage T., Sudholz H., Jacobs S., Daley A. (2012). Evaluating suspected sepsis in term neonates. Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 18(3), 98-104.
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• Savage T., Forster D., McLachlan H., Rayner J. (2008) A review of postnatal documentation in Victoria. J Paed Child Health, 44(Suppl 1):A57
• Savage T., Forster D., McLachlan H.L., Rayner J. A review of postnatal documentation in Victoria. Australian