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Sarabeth Friedman is a full-time Lecturer in the Nurse-Midwifery Department, the Women's Health Specialty of the ANP track, and the GEPN program. In addition she works on developing YSN's relationship with the community preceptors who precept our students. Clinical affiliations include: Meriden Ob Clinic, Bristol Hospital Ob-Gyn Clinic, and Planned Parenthood of New Haven. She has been affiliated with YSN since her graduation from the midwifery program there in 1978.
A large part of her clinical work was done at Fair Haven Community Health Center. Through the clinic and the Commonwealth Fund she administered a grant to develop a screening tool in community health centers for domestic violence. She has served on the City of New Haven's Special Commission on Infant Health Care as part of a task force to reduce infant mortality rates in New Haven. She also has an interest in International health. Having lived in Norway, Israel, and Italy prior to becoming a midwife she has continued participating in international women's health in Guatemala.
Ms. Friedman has been practicing for 30 years providing ambulatory ob-gyn care for girls and women. Her work has been almost exclusively with women who are uninsured and impoverished.She is particularly interested in educating women in healthy life-styles and in parenting. Also, she has done some work for Hospice in recent years and is committed to helping people die the way they want, similar to helping women give birth the way they want.
Women's Center at YNHH Postparum floor at YNHH University of New Haven
2000 ACNM Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award
Other community activities include: participating in Habitat for Humanity, Odyssey of the Mind, The Experiment in International Living, the Interfaith Cooperative Ministries of New Haven, and the International Center at Yale.
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