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Barbara Hackley received a Masters of Science degree in Nurse-Midwifery from
Columbia University in 1981. Over the last twenty years, she has worked in full
scope midwifery clinical practice, education and public health in a variety of
settings including refugee camps in Thailand, inner city clinics and hospitals,
and rural health services. She founded the Women's Health Service at the
Montefiore South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families in 1994, where
she currently practices. She has taught at Columbia and Georgetown University,
as well as in a refresher program for foreign-trained midwives, before joining
the Yale faculty in 1997. She is a two-time recipient of the ACNM Excellence in
Teaching Award and was awarded the 2001 Yale School of Nursing Annie W Goodrich
Award for Excellence in Teaching. Currently, she teaches in the Nurse-Midwifery
Specialization at Yale School of Nursing, where she is responsible for teaching
GYN and primary care.
Her primary areas of interest focus on how to adapt clinical care and service
delivery to effectively meet the health care needs of disadvantaged women. Much
of her clinical work and scholarship has been on how to broaden traditional
OB/GYN services to include more primary care services such as immunizations,
weight management, mental health care, and protections from environmental
pollutants.
Primary care services to disadvantaged and vulnerable women, obesity prevention
for pregnant and postpartum women, pap smear management and follow-up, health
promotion strategies in women's health, health care system management to
maximize health care use by disadvantaged populations.
2004-2005. An Exploratory Study of the Factors Relating to Excessive Prenatal
Weight Gain and Postpartum Weight Retention in Black and Hispanic Women. Award:
Beatrice Renfield - Yale School of Nursing Clinical Research Initiatives Fund
Beyond the Coin Toss: A Better Way to Choose Hormone Replacement Therapy. ACNM Annual Convention, Atlanta GA. 5/31/02.
Update on Incorporating Immunizations in Nurse-Midwifery Practice. ACNM Annual Convention. Washington, D.C. 6/6/01
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