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Angelina N. Chambers has been a Certified Nurse-Midwife for more than 26 years since receiving an MSN (specializing in nurse-midwifery) from Yale University in 1981. She has delivered hundreds of babies in traditional L&D units, in- hospital birthing centers, free-standing birthing centers, and in clients' homes. She has been the director of midwifery services in New York and Texas and initiated the first masters' level nurse-midwifery education program in Houston, Texas.
Prior to coming to YSN, Dr. Chambers was an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in maternal/child health, nurse-midwifery, women's health care, community/public health, and advanced practice role & health policy. She received her doctoral degree in nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in December, 2006. Her research focuses on the phenomenon of maternal-infant bonding and attachment within the context of forced separation (incarceration, illness, drug rehabilitation, etc.) and the impact of forced separation on pregnancy and birth. She has several publications and has done numerous presentations related to midwifery and maternal health care.
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