Whitney Pinger CNM MSN FACNM has been training and serving as a midwife for nearly 50 years.  She is the Founder of WISDOM Midwifery, The WISDOM Pilot Project for Normal Birth and Cesarean Prevention (2007-present), and The WISDOM Model of Collaborative Care.  

Whitney is also the Founder and past Director of GW Midwifery (2010-2020) and she continues to serve GW as an Associate Clinical Professor.   A California native, Whitney graduated from UC Berkeley in 1983 and completed her midwifery training at Yale University in 1986.  She has practiced in the Washington DC area for the past 35 years, where she spent her career building evidence-based, innovative, collaborative practices in academic medical centers.  Her practices are nationally recognized for their low cesarean delivery rates, high rates of interrupted, physiologic birth and VBAC success, and the very highest patient satisfaction scores.  

Whitney is an expert in primary cesarean prevention, evidence-based maternity care, natural childbirth, optimal nourishment, movement, and lifestyle during pregnancy, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), vaginal breech delivery, health disparities, and collaborative practice.  She is most known for her development of The Midwifery Pearls: Evidence for Clinical Practice, a unique presentation of the evidence-based strategies utilized by midwives to promote physiologic birth and The Pinger Patterns of Labor, an innovative and collaborative labor management strategy.

Whitney is committed to, and passionate about, the education of the next generation of midwives, nurses, physicians, and students of all backgrounds.  She will be speaking with us today about her WISDOM Model of Collaborative Care which promotes low rates of cesarean delivery and expands access to uninterrupted physiologic birth in hospital settings using evidence-based strategies.