| Physicians
Assistant Elmira J. Powell, PA-C |
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| Ms. Powell is a native
of Raleigh, NC. She received her B.S. degree in health education
and M.Ed. degree in counseling at University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. She obtained her medical education
as a physician assistant at Duke University. Training as
a physician assistant encom- passes all of the major specialties of medicine and primary care. Her work experience includes women's |
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health, public health, primary care, and emergency medicine. She maintains national certification in her field. |
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| Ms. Powell is President of the North Carolina Academy of Physician Assistants. | |
| Certified Nurse Midwives | |
| Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) are nurses who have furthered their education specifically in the care of women throughout their life span. The CNMs are available to offer physical examinations, pap smears, contraceptive counseling and treatment, preconception counseling and prenatal care and delivery of low risk obstetrical patients. The CNMs work in close consultation with the physicians of Central Carolina Obstetrics & Gynecology who will serve as referral physicians for any gynecological or obstetrical complications. | |
| Vicki L. Latham, CNM | |
| Ms. Latham is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a B.S. in nursing. She began her professional career in 1983 at The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital and has served in clinical, educational, and management positions. In 1988, Vicki obtained her Masters Degree in Neonatal-Perinatal Nursing at Emory University and returned as Clinical Nurse Specialist in | |
| labor and delivery at Moses Cone and The Women's Hospital of Greensboro. While continuing to work at The Women's Hospital, she obtained her certificate in Nurse-Midwifery from the Frontier School of Mid-Wifery and Family Nursing. Ms. Latham began practicing at Central Carolina OB/GYN in April 1996. | |
| C. Hilary Steelman, CNM | |
| C. Hilary Steelman, CNM is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Biology in 2001 and a B.S. in Nursing in 2003. She began her nursing career at UNC Hospitals in Orthopedics and Trauma, before returning home to the foothills of NC to work in labor and delivery at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She obtained her Masters in Nurse-Midwifery from East Carolina | |
| University in May 2008 and joined Central Carolina OB/GYN in September 2008. | |
| Shelley Lillard, CNM | |
| Shelley Lillard, CNM, is a native of Kansas. She completed her BSN at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and worked for the next 10 years in high and low risk obstetrics, first in the Kansas City area, then as a traveling nurse in hospitals throughout the United States. She earned her Masters in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati, and | |
| became certified as a Nurse Midwife in the Spring of 2011. She enjoys the teaching aspect of her career and is looking forward to getting to know her patients and their families. | |
| Virginia Smith, CNM | |
| Virginia Smith, CNM joined Central Carolina OB/GYN in August of 2010. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music in 1997 and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UNC Greensboro in 2004. She earned a Master of Science in Nurse-Midwifery from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 2009 and is certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board. Before | |
| completing her midwifery education, she worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Women�s Hospital of Greensboro and the Women�s Birth and Wellness Center in Chapel Hill, NC. | |
| Virginia�s professional interests include patient education, providing family-centered care and supporting natural childbirth. She is a native of Greensboro, NC where she lives with her three young sons and husband, Nathan. | |
Updated 04/08/11