Who are the BMC Certified Nurse-Midwives?
Somphit Chinkam, CNM, MPH, DNP
Somphit speaks Thai and provides midwifery as well as gynecology care and colposcopy at Whittier Street Health Center and Yawkey OB/GYN Associates. She has a special interest in vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) and global women’s health.
Thamarah Crevecoeur, CNM, MSN
Thamy speaks Haitian Creole and French. She provides prenatal care at Codman Square Health Center and Mattapan Community Health Center. She has a special interest in global women’s health and is currently working on her doctorate in Public Health.
Karen Cullen, CNM
Karen is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) Specialist in Boston, Massachusetts
Rosha Forman, CNM, MSN
Rosha provides prenatal care at DotHouse Health and at the Women’s Center and speaks conversational Spanish. She has a special interest in breastfeeding support and supporting women in their choices for birth. She serves as the Director of Community Health Centers for the OBGYN department and is the Associate Director of the midwifery service.
Cecilia Torres Girard, CNM
Cecilia is a native Spanish speaker and provides prenatal care at Neighborhood Health Center. She has a special interest in Latina women’s health and has been caring for women as a midwife for over 20 years. She is well known for facilitating beautiful hands off births at BMC.
Katherine Hutchinson, CNM
Katie has been a nurse midwife for 15 years and also has a Doctorate in Public Health. She takes care of her patients on Labor & Delivery. er research focuses on respectful and dignified care during childbirth. Katie speaks French.
Monica Joyce, CNM, MSN
Monica provides prenatal group care at Yawkey OB/GYN Associates and Codman Square health center. She enjoys making midwifery care educational and fun for all of her patients.
Kristin Koo, CNM, WHNP-BC
Kristin speaks Spanish and provides prenatal care at Yawkey OB/GYN Associates and East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
Marie Kourtelidis, CNM, MSN
Marie was born and raised in Puerto Rico, she came to the US to study midwifery. She spends her time on the labor and postpartum maternity floors where she enjoys attending births and teaching midwifery skills to residents and medical students. She has a special interest in ensuring high quality and standardized post-partum care to all of our patients.
Julie Mottl-Santiago, CNM, MPH
Julie speaks Spanish and French, providing prenatal care at the Yawkey OB/GYN Associates. She is also the Director of Midwifery Services and is working towards her doctorate in Public Health.
Kari Radoff, CNM, WHNP, MSN
Kari speaks Spanish and provides prenatal care at Neighborhood Health Center. She spent a year in Nicaragua creating a radio soap-opera to help women learn about how to have a healthy and safe pregnancy and is passionate about educating the residents and students at BMC about evidence based maternity care. She is also the Associate Director of the midwifery service.
Jo-Anna Rorie, CNM, MSN, MPH, PhD, FACNM
The core of my work began in early 1990’s when Massachusetts was faced with an infant mortality crisis, especially in the Boston neighborhoods of North Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury. An extensive needs assessment led to a city-wide maternal and child health (MCH) agenda. My fingerprints were all over that agenda; and the subsequent recommendations calling for community-based perinatal initiatives that would utilize nurse-midwifery services as a critical element of care for underserved communities. I was the featured midwife in a provocative and pivotal Boston Globe series that highlighted the “Death Zones of Boston” – bringing the devastating statistics about racial and ethnic disparities within Boston’s infant mortality crisis into the light of day.