Lisa A. Miller JD, RN, CNM

Lisa Miller, CNM, JD, is a registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife with more than 40 years of clinical experience in a wide variety of clinical settings. An attorney since 1990, her legal background gives her a unique understanding of the impact of law on medicine and nursing. Lisa served as Clinical Instructor for the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Champaign-Urbana and as an Assistant Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, where she directed an academic midwifery service.

Lisa currently writes two editorial columns for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing (JPNN) and serves as a member of JPNN’s editorial board. She provides peer review for the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health and is an active member of the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN). Co-author of two textbooks on electronic fetal monitoring, Fetal Monitoring: A Multidisciplinary Approach (8th edition, Mosby, 2016), and Fetal Monitoring (4th edition, Lippincott, 2013), Lisa spends much of her time teaching evidence- and consensus-based standardized approach to fetal monitoring interpretation and management based on the NICHD nomenclature.