Ohio Affiliate and Chapter Leaders

Lucia Jenkusky, DNP, APRN-CNM, FACNM is the Director of the Midwifery and Women’s Health NP program at The Ohio State University.  She is the Director of Women’s Health Services and practicing midwife at OSU Total Health Care Center, a central Ohio FQHC.  Dr. Jenkusky is passionate about improving care in underserved areas while also educating future midwives.  She is an active member and former chair of DOME, the national organization for all Directors of Midwifery Education. Dr. Jenkusky is honored to serve on the Ohio Affiliate Board of Directors as we continue to support Ohio midwives.  She is committed to the Ohio ACNM mission, “to advance the practice of midwifery, and achieve optimal, equitable health outcomes for the people and communities’ midwives serve through inclusion, advocacy, education, leadership development and research.”

• CNM for 29 years… Feeling all of it!
• Married to Roger, with 3 kids and 2 grandbabies
• Assoc Professor: University of Cincinatti, College of Medicine
• OH BON – Advisory Committee
• Buckeye Birth Coalition
• ALSO – Instructor, devoted to maternal safety
• Lecturer, varied hospital committees
• OAAPM – Board of Directors, Professional Relations
• Reimbursement Comm, & Gov’t Relations Comm.

• Certified Nurse Midwife who graduated from Case Western Reserve University’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in 2018.
• Inspired by the documentary The Business of Being Born, which sparked a deep passion for birth work.
• Discovered a calling to midwifery while educating women about menstrual cycles and pregnancy prevention.

• Completed undergraduate research in Belize, studying Mayan women’s reproductive health knowledge and access.

• Presenter on topics including Mycoplasma Genitalium and the ARRIVE trial’s implications for midwifery.

• Mentored and inspired by Gretchen G. Mettler, who guided the decision to attend FPB.

• First midwifery role was in rural Northern California, providing full-scope care in a medically underserved area.

• Since 2020, has been practicing full-scope midwifery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

• Dedicated to serving the underprivileged and underserved minority populations and combating Black maternal and infant mortality rates
• Full scope midwife at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation since 2022
• 2024- Graduated with Doctor of Nursing Practice from Frontier Nursing University
• 2022- Graduated with Master of Science in Nursing with a focus in midwifery from Frontier Nursing University
• 2019- Graduated from Ohio University with Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• 2016- Graduated from Hondros College with Associate of Science in Nursing
• 2013- Graduated from Hondros College with Practical Nursing Diploma
• Lives in Shaker Heights, OH with her husband Shawn and four children

• General member
• Frontier Nursing University alum
• Worked at an FQHC in Dayton for 8 years
• Preparing to start my PhD at Ohio State in the fall with an aim to focus on maternal and infant vitality
• Mama to two girls, Evadene, 8, and Maeve, 5

• Full-scope Certified Nurse Midwife since 2018
• Lead Midwife at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital
• Owner of Sister to Sister Women’s Care
• EdM in Community Health, active in CCF obstetrics community health quality initiatives
• Midwifery contributor to CCF HEalth Essentials, online patient education materials
• ACNM – Midwives of Color Council member (MOCC)
• Ohio ACNM – HEAR Committee member, Communications Committee member
• Mom to 1 adult son

• CNM for > 15 years
• Recently retired Lt Colonel, USAF after 25 year career
• Currently at Holy Family Prenatal Center
• Loves to garden, has chickens, ducks, & bees
• Wife for 24 years
• Mother of five, loves to travel and has a heart for mission work