Cheryl Gainer, RN, CNM, MSN

Clinical Instructor

Office #631, Pickard Hall

Since I love teaching and being a midwife, I have the perfect job.  Educating undergraduate maternity students allows me to combine my love of teaching with my passion for helping women and families experience the miracle of childbirth.  I believe learning should help the student grow in both their nursing knowledge and also in their personal knowledge and experience.  Childbirth is an integral part of life and is life-changing and should be treated as such.

My E-Mail address: gainer@uta.edu

Research Interests

Midwifery:

• Birth positions and perineal outcome

• Breastfeeding:  maternal and infant health

Celiac Disease:

• Screening and diagnosis

• Hormonal Imbalance/dysfunction in those with Celiac Disease

• TWU Great 100 Nursing Alumni Award 2001

• TWU Teaching Excellence Award 2001

• Undergraduate obstetrical Nursing, N4441 (clinical)

Education

• MSN, in High Risk Perinatal Nursing, at Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, 1982        

• Major: Maternal/Child, Advanced Practice Nurse tract.

• BSN, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, 1975

• Post Masters, in Midwifery at University of Mississippi at Jackson, Jackson, MS, 1982