2023 – Jane Houston and Megan Arbour

Jane F. Houston DNP, CNM, FACNM began her nursing and midwifery education in Scotland where she became a registered general nurse RGN with a Bachelor’s degree and completed her diploma in midwifery in 1992 to become a Registered Midwife. She has always felt called to the profession of midwifery since childhood.

Jane has cared for many families and caught many babies on 4 different continents, in countries including the USA, Scotland, Zimbabwe, and New Zealand over the past 33 years. She entered graduate school at the University of Florida in 2001 and completed her MSN studies so she would be able to provide midwifery care in Gainesville, Florida. She became the first midwife on staff at a local hospital there.

Jane was in the first DNP class at the University of Florida, graduating in 2009, and continued her career in education becoming Director of Midwifery there from 2011 to 2015. She joined the faculty at Frontier Nursing University in 2015 as Clinical Director for Midwifery and Women’s Health until 2019. She then became the Director of the DNP program there until Fall 2021. She currently provides full-scope midwifery care as teaching faculty within the University of Central Florida residency practice at a local maternity hospital.

She is an Associate Professor with interests in waterbirth, normalization of pregnancy, delayed cord clamping, Diversity, and Inclusion related to SGM communities, kindness, and compassion in healthcare and international maternal care.

She/They identify as gay and gender non-conforming.

Megan Arbour, PhD, CNM, CNE, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife and certified nursing educator with a passion for teaching graduate nursing and midwifery students.  She grew up in rural western Maine and was an elementary music teacher prior to attending midwifery and nursing school at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.  Her clinical practice involved work at several underserved clinics in Columbus, Ohio, providing midwifery care to those who were unable to access care elsewhere in the impoverished urban location. After 10 years of teaching and leading the midwifery program at the University of Cincinnati, Megan joined the faculty of Frontier Nursing University, where she currently works as an Associate Professor of nursing.  It brings her great joy when students demonstrate skill in understanding, synthesizing, and applying scientific evidence in their clinical practice. Through the journey of life, Megan’s passion for trauma-informed teaching and recognizing disability as diversity has grown. She is honoured to share this passion with you. Megan lives in Ohio with her husband, 3 children, and many pets.