Associate Professor
schmindl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- BA: University of Virginia, Anthropology
- BSN: University of Virginia
- MSN: Emory University, Nurse-Midwifery
- MPH: Emory University, Behavioral Science and Health Education
- PhD: University of Virginia, Nursing
Experience
- Labor and Delivery, Nursery, Intermediate Care Nursery, High risk Antepartum & Postpartum Nursing
- Nurse-midwife in public health department, hospital, health maintenance organization and private practice settings
- Centering Pregnancy program coordinator and facilitator
- Teaching: pathophysiology, epigenetics, women's and maternal-child health and applied statistics, population health
- Research topics: psychoneuroimmunologyof adverse birth outcomes, stress and social support patterns; intimate partner and family violence; traumatic brain injury; epidemiology; structural violence and structural justice
- Research populations of interest: pregnant women, vulnerable populations
- Maternal mortality review
Professional Interests:
- Learning facilitation of difficult discussions through simulation
- Public health
- Sexual health issues
- Infertility
- Structural violence
- Postpartum Mood Disorders
- Genetics/Genomics and the Environment
- Intimate partner violence and head injury
- Historical Research of Professional Midwifery
School of Nursing
Health and Behavioral Studies Building
MSC 4305
235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
MSC 4305
235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
