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In Memoriam
Jeanne Raisler, CNM, DrPH
Deceased May 19, 2006
Dr. Jeanne Raisler was a Clinical Associate Professor with the nurse midwifery program at the School of Nursing, where she worked for the past ten years. She received her MSN in Midwifery from Columbia University, MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and DrPH in Maternal and Child Health from Johns Hopkins University. During her 30 years as a Nurse-Midwife, she contributed as an educator, mentor, caregiver, writer and editor. She was an accomplished breastfeeding researcher and advocate, having received the Regional Award for Excellence from and was inducted as a Fellow by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Her latest research focused on cesarean sections, operative vaginal delivery, and associated complications. Dr. Raisler worked with the CDC’s Global AIDS Program as a consultant to the Health Resources and Services Administration, providing training and support to nurses and midwives in the most severely affected countries. As a nurse-midwife, her work focused particularly on preventing mother to child transmission of HIV, and providing care and treatment to women and families living with HIV/AIDS, working in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Guyana. In collaboration with nursing faculty at Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dr. Raisler was also funded by the World AIDS Foundation to create a training course on preventing mother to child transmission for Tanzanian nurse-midwives. Dr. Raisler will be greatly missed by her family, friends and colleagues, and will be remembered as an inspiration and visionary by all those whose lives she touched.