Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the president of Frontier Nursing University (FNU), and was recently elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of her achievements in impacting accessibility of quality health care for rural families across the U.S.
Dr. Stone has been president at FNU since 2001, serving as a leader in the development of strategies to increase the quality and capacity of the midwifery and advanced practice nursing workforce to improve health care for families. At FNU, she led the transition from a community-based school of nurse-midwifery offering a basic certificate to an accredited university offering master’s and doctoral degrees.
Dr. Stone also served as president of the American College of Nurse-Midwives where she worked to increase the midwifery workforce through educational quality and capacity strategies, advocacy related to the maternal mortality and morbidity crisis, and increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce.
