Jessica Pipitone, CNM

Jessica Pipitone is a Certified Nurse-Midwife with a Master of Science in Nursing from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Spanish from Ithaca College. She began her career in Women’s Healthcare as a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and as an HIV/AIDS counselor in Western New York. She then moved to Central America and was involved in social justice organizing and education for a global non-for-profit organization. It was there she realized her obligation as a global citizen to advocate for equal access to dignified healthcare for women and families everywhere. She became a Certified Nurse-Midwife in 2006 and worked in both private practice and an accredited birth center before joining Yale Medicine. Her past research interests include the birth experience of childbearing people in Nicaragua. Her academic and clinical focus is on reducing health disparities and improving maternal morbidity and mortality.

She is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Faculty at the Yale University School of Nursing, a Clinical Instructor for Yale University School of Medicine, and a Certified Lactation Counselor. Her current role as a Yale Midwife and Professor allows her the opportunity to practice full-scope midwifery, shape the future midwives of the world, and raise her three vibrant children in Connecticut.

How do you spend your valuable personal time when you are not caring for patients?
I love to do yoga, jog, and sing in my community choir.

Why did you choose your specialty and what is its greatest reward?
Sharing my midwifery expertise with students and patients is my greatest joy. I love supporting the future change agents of the world through direct patient care and academic midwifery.

I am dedicated to partnering with patients in their own healthcare, actively engaging in shared decision making.