Suzy
Myers, LM, CPM, MPH
 Suzy
is co-founder of SHMS. She began her training,
along with Marge Mansfield, in 1975 in Seattle,
and in 1978 together they co-founded the Seattle
Midwifery School (SMS). Today, Suzy continues
to be active as a member of the faculty and Board
of Directors of SMS.
In the early 1980’s she was active in legislative
reform of Washington’s Midwifery Act and
served on the first Midwifery Advisory Committee,
writing rules and developing the licensing examination.
In 1983 she helped to launch the Midwives Association
of Washington State and served as its first president
from 1983-1985. In 1988 she earned a Master’s
degree in Public Health from the University of
Washington’s Maternal and Child Health Program.
She co-authored the first study of outcomes of
licensed midwife-attended births in Washington,
which was published in the journal Birth in 1994.
More recently, she wrote a chapter for the second
edition of The Labor Progress Handbook, by Penny
Simkin and Ruth Ancheta (2005, Osney Mead, Oxford:
Blackwell Science Ltd.).
Suzy has continued to be involved on many fronts
in support of the development of professional
midwifery, locally and nationally. Since 1994
she has served on the Board of Directors of a
JUA created by the Washington State legislature
to provide medical malpractice insurance to midwives
providing out-of-hospital birth services. She
was a founding Board member of the Community Birth
and Family Center, the first non-profit community
birth center in Washington which opened in 1999.
Since 2002 has served on the Board of Directors
of the newly formed National Association of Certified
Professional Midwives (NACPM).
Suzy enjoys balancing her midwifery work with
time for her recreational interests (hiking, kayaking
and yoga) and with her friends and family. She
and her husband Jody Granatir are the parents
of two grown daughters.
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Marge
Mansfield, LM, CPM
 Marge
is co-founder of SHMS and the Seattle Midwifery
School. She worked as Academic Director for SMS
for its first ten years and continues to be a
faculty member and clinical preceptor. She has
been a Board member for SMS, the Midwives Association
of Washington State and the North American Registry
of Midwives which developed a national standardized
midwifery exam and subsequently a national certification
process for midwives. In addition, she served
on the Washington State Midwifery Advisory Committee
from 1995 – 1999, serving as chair from
1997-1999..
Interested in international issues and global
health, she obtained registration to practice
in Jamaica and has participated in a variety of
roles to support the legalization of midwifery
in both Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
She has been a presenter at the International
Confederation of Midwives Conferences in 1987
and 1993. She has traveled extensively through
out Latin America, Europe and Nepal. Currently
she serves on the Board of Directors of the Tibetan
Healing Fund, whose mission is to improve education
and health services for women and children in
rural Tibet.
Her passion is mountains and high altitude. She
enjoys hiking and telemark skiing. She played
African music professionally for ten years and
plays currently with Niyamuziwa. She obtained
a pilot’s license in 1991 and was certified
as an EMT in Wilderness Emergency Medicine in
1997. At home she spends time with friends and
family, is a dog-lover and an avid gardener.
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Heather
Chorley, PA, LM
Heather’s path to midwifery started as a
child when she discovered a fascination with birth.
She detoured into another health care field when,
after college, she attended Bowman Gray School
of Medicine Physician Assistant Program. She worked
as a Physician Assistant (PA), first in North
Carolina in an acute leukemia unit, and then,
when she moved to Seattle in 1994, in internal
medicine and women’s health care in a community
health clinic. Here, Heather learned about the
Seattle Midwifery School and was once again drawn
to the power of birth. She started the program
in 1995 and in the next three years became a midwife,
married her husband Fred and gave birth to her
daughter Isla.
Heather started her practice, Welcome Home Midwifery
Service in Seattle in 1999, with Wendy Rowe, LM.
In addition, she worked part-time at Puget Sound
Birth Center and with Suzy and Marge at Seattle
Home Maternity Service. When her partner Wendy
decided to move back to Vermont, Suzy and Marge
asked her to join them full time as a third midwife
in their practice, and she began in January, 2006.
In addition to her clinical practice, Heather
has become a valued faculty member at Seattle
Midwifery School, where she co-teaches several
courses. Students name Heather as one of their
most effective teachers, both in the classroom
and as a clinical preceptor.
Heather is blessed with a beautiful family: husband
Fred, and daughters Isla (1999) and Maevis (2005),
both born at home and attended by Heather’s
former midwifery partner, Wendy Rowe. The experience
of receiving attentive midwifery care herself
has deepened Heather’s commitment to provide
such care to other women and families.
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Pam
Lang, Office Manager
Pam began her long relationship with SHMS in 1980
when she gave birth to her first daughter at home
with Marge and Suzy as her midwives. After her
second daughter’s birth in 1985, Pam became
the clinic’s office manager, where she worked
part-time from 1985-1991. In 1991, she went left
the clinic to work full-time as a mother. Now
that her daughters are both out of the house,
Pam has resumed her position as office manager,
where she has made herself indispensable! Asked
what she enjoys most about the job, Pam says “holding
all those babies!”
In her spare time, Pam enjoys reading, gardening
and traveling to warm destinations with her husband,
Ben.
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Victoria
Malloy, Alternative Billing Services
Victoria runs a small medical billing service
for midwives. She became interested in helping
midwives and their clients get the best reimbursement
for services from a consumer advocacy perspective
after she had her son Henry at home with midwives.
Victoria provides a personal and professional
service for midwives and their clients. She is
available to answer the full spectrum of questions
related to insurance coverage and billing, from
how to select an insurance plan that covers your
choice of provider, to help with getting your
insurance plan to fully cover your care.
You can contact Victoria directly by calling her
office at 206- 932-0870.
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About
Students…
We are committed to the goal of “a midwife
for every mother” and enjoy being part of
training the midwives of the future. Student midwives
enrolled at the Seattle Midwifery School function
as an integral part of sthe midwifery team and
will be involved in your care. Student participation
only occurs under the supervision of a staff midwife.
Your comfort with the student’s role is
of utmost importance and, as with any other aspect
of your care, we welcome feedback.
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