Midwives

Karie Stewart is a certified nurse midwife at the UIC and has provided care to predominantly Black and Brown patients for the past two years. Karie introduced racially concordant group prenatal care to the University of Chicago Medical Center and founded the community-based organization, Melanated Midwives, to address maternal health disparities on the South Side of Chicago.

Pamela Pearson is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the UIC Midwifery and WHNP program at UIC. She has 30 years of experience as a Nurse Midwife and has been working in the college for 5 years. She has a lot of experience working in low resource communities and communities of color.

Care Coordinators

Cindy came to MGMC as an experienced health care professional in social work and public health. As the MGMC social worker and an advocate for cultural humility and social justice, she is committed to giving a voice to the voiceless and providing a vat of resources that support the possibility of helping people help themselves.

Kristal is the MGMC Nurse Navigator. She has been a nurse in OB for 8 years, including working in L&D, High Risk, and Postpartum. Three and a half of those 8 years included travel nursing. Through her traveling, she encountered and was privileged to work with diverse patient populations and witnessed the need for care beyond what many were receiving in the hospital setting. The need to fill in the gaps.

Teri has been a registered nurse for 5 years, specializing in women’s health and maternity care for 3 years. At Georgetown University, she’s pursuing her Master of Science with a dual specialty as a nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner (NM/WHNP). She expects to graduate this August! She was born in Ohio, but spent half of her life in the SW (New Mexico & Arizona). Teri has lived in Chicago for about a year now, and she plans to practice here. Teri loves reading, being in nature, and anything that expends creative energy (most recently painting and tufting).