Christina (Chrissy) Owens

Christina (Chrissy) Owens is a practicing CPM in Virginia since 2013 with a private Community Birth practice in Hampton Roads.  Prior to that, she was the Executive Director at a free-standing birth center in Florida.  She also spent 12 years working in a local, family-centered OB practice as a medical assistant in many roles.  She works with folks desiring HBAC, vaginal breech birth as well as twin births in her community and aspires to one day travel the world doing the same.  Chrissy has been a preceptor for many midwifery students over the last 10 years, is a certified instructor of ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics) for the AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians), and volunteers as a CEU reviewer and Accreditation Review Committee Person for the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council. She is also a volunteer for the local Medical Reserve Corps through the Virginia Department of Health.  Chrissy is the current Treasurer and Director of Education for her state midwifery alliance as well as the past President, Vice President and Public Relations Director.  She is a firm believer in the necessity for Interprofessional Collaboration on behalf of all birthing families and their newborns and aims to maintain those types of relationships among Maternal and Newborn Care providers. Chrissy has also been a regional Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Learning Community co-facilitator in the past and a member of several workgroups surrounding both this and Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Teams.