Cindy L. Farley, CNM, PhD, FACNM, studied midwifery at Emory University. She earned her BSN and PhD from The Ohio State University and her MSN from Emory University. She is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University in the Nurse-Midwifery/ Women's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) programs. She serves as a locum tenens clinician for the midwifery practice at Pomerene Hospital, Millersburg, Ohio, home of the largest Amish and Anabaptist population in the world. She has taken midwifery students to Haiti to work with the nongovernmental organization (NGO), Midwives for Haiti, working toward building the Haitian midwifery work force and saving lives of Haitian mothers and babies. Dr. Farley serves as a legal expert on selected cases involving midwifery regulatory issues and clinical care.
In addition to co-editing the 5th edition of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Midwifery and Women's Health, she is also co-editor of the American College of Nurse-Midwives 2015 Book of the Year, Prenatal and Postnatal Care: A Woman Centered Approach. Dr. Farley has been active in working toward the development of a Doctorate of Midwifery, as a member of an American College of Nurse-Midwives ad hoc committee writing doctoral competencies and as a contributor to a think tank of midwifery educators and stakeholders writing curricula for this innovative new degree. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Ohio Legacy Award, the Dorothea Lange award, and was honored at Frontier Nursing University at the Chicken Coop Reunion as founding faculty in the early days of CNEP. Making midwives to improve the health of women and their families is her passion.