Staff Information
Lorrie Kaplan
Executive Director
Lorrie joined ACNM as Executive Director in May 2007. She has 25 years of experience in health policy, advocacy, communications, publications, and education, including ten years as Executive Director of the National Home Infusion Association, a multi-disciplinary health care association representing pharmacies providing I.V. therapies for home care patients. Lorrie believes passionately in the value and importance of midwifery care in the U.S. and globally. As a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Paraguay she specialized in maternal and child health, partnering with a local auxiliary nurse-midwife. In 1989, she and her husband Bob had a joyous experience with midwifery for the birth of their second child.
Kathleen Przybylski
Executive Assistant
Fausto Miranda
Information Technology Manager
Fausto joined ACNM in September 2006 as the Information Technology Manager. Before joining ACNM, he worked for Merchant Link, LLC a subsidiary of Chase Paymentech. As a Network Administrator III, he provided technical support for various web, database, and security projects.
Kerri Durnell Schuiling CNM, PhD, WHCNP, FACNM
Senior Staff Researcher (Off-Site)
Kerri is a senior staff researcher for ACNM. She accepted this part-time role in April 2003. Her nurse-midwifery certificate is from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She earned her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2003. She assists the ACNM in the collection, analysis, and communication of important data about its members. Additionally, she is the national office liaison to the ACNM Division of Research and is the ACNM representative on the Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS).
George Hamilton
Director of Membership
A native of Philadelphia, PA, George traveled south to Greensboro, NC for college where he earned a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Guilford College. After college George moved to the Washington, DC area and began a career in non-profit association management. After stops at the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences & Business and Professional Women/USA, George joined ACNM in March 2001 as Membership Manager. Now serving ACNM as Director of Membership, George has ultimate responsibility for all aspects of the membership department. His primary day to day functions involve membership retention & marketing, member benefits, and non-dues revenue development. George celebrated his 8th anniversary on the ACNM staff in March 2009.
Elizabeth Suellentrop
Membership Coordinator
Elizabeth Suellentrop joined ACNM in February 2009 as the membership coordinator. She has extensive development and membership experience in nonprofit organizations and holds a master's degree in women's studies from George Washington University. Suellentrop worked as the development assistant for the Mautner Project, the National Lesbian Health Organization. She has read Ourbodies, Ourselves and its various versions since she was 14 years old and is passionate about women's health.
Eileen Ehudin Beard CNM, FNP, MS
Senior Practice Advisor
Eileen has been fascinated with the birth process since childhood and fulfilled her dream to become a CNM in 1977 after graduating from State University of New York at Downstate. She has practiced full scope midwifery care for most of her career. In 1981, Eileen opened the first Birth Center in the State of Maryland. The Baltimore Birth Center was open for more than twenty years. Eileen has served as a faculty member of Georgetown University, and the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She has also served as adjunct faculty and preceptor for nursing, midwifery and nurse practitioner students across the country. From 1993 until 2003, Eileen was a Governor-Appointee Committee Member for the State Commission on Infant Mortality. In 2003, Eileen went to Stony Brook University and received her MS degree and Family Nurse Practitioner certificate. As a nurse- midwife and family nurse practitioner, Eileen has had a special interest in working with patients who are physically and mentally challenged. She and her husband, Michael have ten children. They try to travel as often as possible.
Mairi Breen Rothman CNM, MSN
Professional Services Consultant
Mairi received her BSN from Catholic University of America, her CNM from the Frontier School of Midwifery (CNEP Class 6), and her MSN from Case Western Reserve University. Mairi has been a CNM for over 11 years, practicing in a variety of settings including home, birth centers, hospitals, and clinics, and precepting students from many programs. Mairi has been active in the launching and accreditation of two birth centers, and has been an active advocate for midwifery, helping - among other things - to pass legislation to increase women's access to well-woman care in Maryland by expanding choices covered by health insurers to include midwives. Serving women from all walks of life, Mairi is passionate about a woman's right to the safe, thorough, culturally sensitive, high-quality health care that is the hallmark of midwifery. She has traveled to teach workshops for midwives in El Salvador and Honduras, and is currently co-owner of a small home birth practice focusing on uninsured Latina immigrants. Mairi has served ACNM locally as Maryland chapter chair and as legislative liaison, and nationally for six years on the Program Committee. She has led the Heart of Midwifery sessions at our Annual Meetings since 2001, and has also presented on topics including managing low milk-supply and birth center development.
Joanna M King Esq.
Director of Government Relations
A native New Yorker, Joanna has had extensive experience in state legislative, private legal practice, trade association and policy research settings providing research and writing, lobbying and consultant services. She completed her bachelor of arts at the University of Vermont with a double major in Economics and Philosophy, earning departmental honors in Economics, the John Dewey Philosophy Award, and induction into Phi Beta Kappa. An attorney for over twenty years, Joanna received her JD from Albany Law School, and is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia and before the US Supreme Court. She has served as Senior Legislative Counsel at The MayaTech Corporation's Center for Health Policy and Legislative Policy, Legislative Counsel for State Government Relations at the Distilled Spirits Council, and Counsel to the New York State Senate.
Elaine Germano CNM, DrPH, FACNM
Education Projects Manager
Elaine is responsible for leading the implementation of the work plan that emerged from the 2005 ACNM Education Summit. Elaine has been involved in midwifery education throughout her career, including as a midwifery education program coordinator at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California (LAC/USC) Medical Center from 1982 - 1986 and as Director of the Nurse-Midwifery Education Program at Georgetown University from 2002-2005.
