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Julie Jones,
CNM

Julie is a mom and a board Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM ) licensed in the state of Utah. She has the authority to prescribe and manage medications. She provides labor and delivery services in the hospital and provides women’s healthcare in the clinic. She feels women should have safe choices for life’s changes.

She is married, has two children and two dogs. She has been a nurse-midwife since 1995 and a nurse since 1983. She likes to read, garden, ski, go on hikes, watch TV and go to Disneyland.

Education
Julie graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She completed postgraduate work also at the University of Utah with a Master of Science degree in Nurse-Midwifery. Since becoming a nurse she has worked in a variety of areas: cardiac transplant, neurology and labor and delivery. Her favorite are was being a ob flight nurse prior to graduating in mid-wifery.

Paula Thacker,
APRN, CNM, WHNP

Paula Thacker is a mother, a grandmother and a board Certified Nurse Midwife and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. She is licensed with the State of Utah to provide health care to women in both the clinic and hospital settings. She has the authority to prescribe and manage medications in both settings.

Her expertise extends from the young teenage patient, to prenatal care, midlife and on to menopause management.

She loves the idea of getting to know each of her patients personally, in order to participate in providing them with the best individualized health care possible.

She is married to a very patient husband; they have a “yours,mine and ours” family of 6 children, who are all grown & married with children of their own. She especially enjoys her big family, their cabin in the mountains, baking and a good book.

Education
Paula is a BYU graduate with a Master of Science in Nursing. She also has completed Post-Graduate degrees from the University of Utah as a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner in 2000.

She has worked within the realm of women's health services through her entire nursing career. Over a span of greater than 35 years, she has worked in the capacity of labor and delivery nursing, education, administration and as Director of Women's Services in the hospital setting, and finally as a Certified Nurse Midwife & Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. However, she feels her most satisfying work is done as she observes women becoming empowered to make informed, safe health care decisions for themselves and their families.

 

Mandy Johnson, WHNP, MS

Mandy is a mom as well as a board certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP). She is licensed in the state of Utah, with the authority to prescribe and manage medications. She provides a full scope of women’s healthcare in the clinic. Her practice is based on providing care that is comprehensive and individualized. She loves the idea that she can be involved in all stages of a woman’s healthcare throughout her lifetime. Her priorities include education, prevention and treatment. 


Education
Associate degree in Nursing from Weber State University 1999.
Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Weber State University 2001.
Master of Science degree in Nursing as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner from the University of Utah in 2004.


 She has been a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner since 2004, and prior to that a Registered Nurse for five years.

She is married and has two boys, Trevor and Andrew.

She likes to read, run, go camping, cook, and spend time with her family.

Elizabeth Harmer,
APRN, CNM, WHNP

Elizabeth is a Certified Nurse Midwife as well as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She enjoys providing empathetic care to women in the clinic setting. Her specialties include helping busy women to make their own physical and emotional health a priority in their lives and solving minor gynecological problems. She also enjoys supporting women through labor and birth and hopes to return to attending deliveries in the future.

Education
Elizabeth graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science Nursing degree from Brigham Young University in 1998. She then worked as a Registered Nurse in Labor and Delivery for five years. She received a Master’s of Science in Nurse Midwifery from the University of Utah in 2003 and a post graduate certificate for Women’s Healthcare Nurse Practitioner in 2005. Since becoming a nurse midwife, she has worked in a variety of setting and has provided contraception counseling, preconception counseling, prenatal care, delivery care, post partum care, annual exams, and care for gynecological problems and menopause. She has also provided care in an emergency room for pregnant women.

Elizabeth is married and spends most of her time parenting her four young children. She also enjoys cooking (especially the eating part), gardening, and hiking.