Margaret Beal, CNM, PhD
Margaret Beal has practiced midwifery and women's health nursing for over 30 years. Currently, she is a Clinical Professor in Women's Health at the Institute of Health Professions, affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. Previously she taught nursing and midwifery at Yale University and practiced with Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. She entered nursing with the goal of becoming a professional midwife, and discovered immediately the rewards of providing care in contraception and abortion clinics. As a clinician with Planned Parenthood her practice included provision of medical abortion, and she has experience with various staff roles in surgical abortion clinic. Her clinical experience includes labor nursing, full scope midwifery, and care of HIV positive pregnant women and mothers. At Yale she was the faculty advisor for Nursing Students for Choice at Yale University School of Nursing, and has brought abortion content into the curriculum.
She has served on the Community Advisory Board for the New Haven (CT) Family Planning Clinic and is Chair of the American College of Nurse-Midwives Division of Education. A graduate of Oberlin College (1973), she earned her BSN at Case Western Reserve University, her MSN at Yale, and her PhD at the Union Institute. She is currently on NAF's Board of Directors.
Joyce Cappiello, MS, FNP
Joyce Cappiello has a strong interest and commitment to the field of reproductive health care of women. She is the director of the Reproductive Options Education Consortium for Nursing (The ROE Consortium) at the Abortion Access Project in Cambridge, MA. She is a nurse practitioner at the Feminist Health Center of Portsmouth, NH, providing women and their partners with comprehensive reproductive health care as well. As an Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing at the University of New Hampshire, she teaches family and adult nurse practitioner students. Combining her academic and clinical interests, she is conducting qualitative research on women's experience of decision making with medical abortion while pursuing her PhD.
Nikole Gettings, CNM
Nikole Gettings has been providing well woman gynecology and abortion follow up care with Memphis Center for Reproductive Health for 3 years. Ms. Gettings has a special interest in adolescent sexual healthcare. She has a Masters in Nursing from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. During her coursework she completed an elective mentorship on adolescent sexuality and integrating feminist healthcare for adolescents. In addition, she has been trained and certified as a Centering Pregnancy Provider. Ms. Gettings believes women should be supported throughout their lives in all areas of reproductive health through education, clinical services, and support networks.
Beth Kruse, MS, ARNP, CNM
NAF Clinical Liaison
Beth Kruse is a certified nurse-midwife who joined the National Abortion Federation in 2005 as Associate Director of Clinical Services, after many rewarding years of clinical practice and research experience in abortion care (particularly medical abortion). She has participated as national and international faculty in NAF's Medical Abortion Education Program since 1995, published abortion-related articles in peer-reviewed journals, and been an invited speaker at meetings of numerous professional associations in the U.S. and abroad. Beth has served as the state of Washington's representative to Midwives for Choice from its inception, subsequently accepting a seat on the National Advisory Committee for Clinicians for Choice where she is currently NAF's Clinical Liaison. In addition to her work with NAF and on the Advisory Committee, Beth is a clinician with the Department of Public Health Family Planning Program of Seattle/King County.
Timothy Quigley, MPH, PA-C
Tim Quigley is an Associate Professor in the Wichita State University Department of Physician Assistant. For the last 15 years, he has taught the Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, Public Health, and Behavioral Medicine components of the PA curriculum. He is completing his second term on the Planned Parenthood of Kansas and mid-Missouri board of directors. He is an outspoken supporter of reproductive rights and served as a volunteer with Dr. George Tiller’s Women’s Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas.
Professor Quigley has held leadership roles in the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the Physician Assistant Education Association. He is currently conducting research, with graduate students, on abortion education in the PA curricula nationwide. In addition to his academic appointment, Professor Quigley maintains a clinical practice as a psychiatric PA in a rural community mental health center.
Katherine Simmonds, NP, MSN, RNC, MPH
Katherine Simmonds is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Graduate Program in Nursing. She is also the founder and former Director of the Reproductive Options Educations Consortium for Nursing (2002-2006), a project that brings education, curricula tools and training about reproductive options to nurse educators, students, and practicing clinicians throughout the United States. She earned her Masters degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health, and her MSN from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Ms. Simmonds currently practices as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner at a community health center in Boston, MA. She is a member of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties and the National Association of Women's Health Nurse Practitioners.
Jini Tanenhaus PA-C, MA
Jini Tanenhaus is a Physician Assistant and has over twenty years of experience as a primary care medical provider specializing in adolescent and reproductive health, and as a Pro-Choice advocate. For the past 13 years she has worked at Planned Parenthood of New York City in several different capacities, most recently as a Clinician Trainer. As a provider, she initiated medical abortion services at PPNYC in 1996 and over the past 10 years has been faculty for numerous training workshops and presentations on medical abortion and other reproductive health issues, representing PPNYC, PPFA and the National Abortion Federation's medical abortion education program. Prior to this position she served as the Director of Quality Assurance at PPNYC and as a quality consultant for NAF. She is the Clinicians for Choice state contact for New York and a member of the Advisory Committee.
Annelle Taylor, RN, MSN
Annelle Taylor recently completed the MSN program in Women's Health and Adult Primary Care at the Yale School of Nursing and currently works as an R.N. in the post-abortion recovery room. As a student at Yale, she co-coordinated Nursing Students for Choice (NSFC) and worked in coordination with other pro-choice organizations and the national NSFC to bring pro-choice events to campus and to bring NSFC students to conferences and events that inspire discussion about abortion and reproductive justice while also motivating an interest in expanding the scope of practice of Advanced Practice Clinicians. It is her dream that one day both medical and surgical abortions will be within the scope of practice of APCs in all states, and she hopes that this dream might begin to be realized by training APC students.
