Lisa Kane Low is Senior Associate Dean of Professional Graduate Studies and Professional Relations in the School of Nursing and holds appointments as Professor in Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and as the Carolyn M. Sampselle Collegiate Professor in the School of Nursing at University of Michigan.
She is in full scope midwifery clinical practice at University of Michigan Health. Lisa has held leadership positions on a national and state level participating in development of national standard setting documents for the American College of Nurse-Midwives and as a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists obstetrics practice committee as well as a member of the National Alliance for Maternal Innovation or AIM program participating as an author of the Post Partum Hemorrhage and Promoting Safe Vaginal Delivery Safety Bundles and has participated research related to standards for opioid prescribing related to pregnancy and childbirth.
Her research focuses on promoting healthy birth practices including leading initiatives focused on safely reducing primary cesarean births, prevention of hemorrhage and the role of Doulas in improving health outcomes. She is a past President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.