"I've truly enjoyed teaching midwifery at SUNY Downstate since 1985. Helping students to achieve their goal to become a midwife is enormously rewarding."
Academic Responsibilities:
Course coordination or co-coordination of Neonatology, Pelvic Assessment of Women, Medical and Obstetric Complications, Medical Complications of Pregnancy, Obstetric Complications of Pregnancy and Integration of Clinical Studies.
Experience:
Professor Schechter has had extensive experience in ambulatory women's health care and primary care. She has worked in a community health center, health maintenance organization, urban tertiary care hospital, and university health care service. She is also educated as a family nurse practitioner and was certified as a women's health care nurse practitioner.
Contributions to the Profession:
Professor Schechter has been a member of the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME), formerly the Division of Accreditation, Board of Review, of the ACNM. She is currently a site visitor for the ACME. Professor Schechter is a member of the Division of Education, Continuing Education Section. She spearheaded the development of the ACNM Region 2, Chapter 1 Student Scholarship Committee and is currently the Committee Chair. She coordinates and edits the "About Us" column in the Metro Midwives newsletter. She is a past chair of the Nominating Committee and a past treasurer of the local ACNM chapter.
Professor Schechter co-authored the article, "Integrating Qualified Nurses and Non-Nurses in Midwifery Education: The Two-Year Experience of an ACNM DOA Accredited Program," featured in the premier issues of the peer-reviewed Journal of Midiwfery & Women's Health in January, 2000. She was a 2004 recipient of the ACNM Regional Award for Excellence.
Professor Schechter received the ACNM Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence in 2008 and is a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). She was inducted as a fellow of the ACNM in 2009.
Education:
MS in Nursing with distinction, Pace University
Certificate in Midwifery, SUNY Downstate
Certificate from Legal Nurse Consultant Program, Long Island University.