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Esther Ellsworth Bowers, CNM, WHNP

OB/GYN

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Esther Ellsworth Bowers, CNM, WHNP

Location: Flagstaff 4th Street

Specialty: OB/GYN

Work History & Leadership:

  • Faculty, Georgetown University Nurse-Midwifery & WHNP Programs (Course Lead: High-Risk Antepartum Care)
  • Staff Midwife; Flagstaff Birth & Women’s Center
  • Advanced Nurse Practitioner; Valley Perinatal Services

Board Certifications: 

  • American Midwifery Certification Board
  • National Certification Corporation

Professional Associations: 

  • American College of Nurse-Midwives

Fun Facts:  I enjoy gardening, hiking/backpacking and grew up in northern Arizona (Prescott/Flagstaff). I am also a parent of four active children.


Education

Education

  • Graduate School: MSN, Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner; Georgetown University; Washington DC; 2014
  • Undergraduate: BSN; University of Colorado; Aurora CO; 2012
  • Undergraduate: BS Biology & Society; Arizona State University; Tempe AZ; 2002

 

 

Awards

 

 

 

 

Publications & Special Projects

Publications

Ellsworth-Bowers, E.R. & Corwin, E.J. (2012) Nutrition and the psychoneuroimmunology of postpartum depression. Nutrition research reviews, 25(1), 180-92.

Ellsworth-Bowers, E.R. & Reedy, N.J. (2015). Diabetes. In T.L. King & M.C. Brucker (Eds.), Pharmacology for women’s health (2nd ed.), Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Reedy, N.J., Ellsworth-Bowers, E.R., & King, T.L. (2018). Obstetric Complications in Pregnancy. In T.L. King & M.C. Brucker (Eds.), Varney’s midwifery (6th ed.), Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Special Projects

  • Ongoing research on population health impacts of diabetes management during pregnancy
  • Mentoring CNM and WHNP graduate students in clinical training and research projects

 

 

Patient Satisfaction

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