Nancy K. Lowe is professor and chair of the Division of Women, Children, and Family Health at the University of Colorado, Denver, College of Nursing. Previously, she was the Elnora Thomson Distinguished Professor at Oregon Health & Science University Schools of Nursing and Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and professor at The Ohio State University Colleges of Nursing and Medicine.
Dr. Lowe’s research has focused on the experience of pain during childbirth, women’s self-efficacy for labor, supportive care during childbirth, simulation training to improve team performance and patient safety in obstetric emergencies, and military women’s self-care of genitourinary infections. Her current work is also focused on dystocia as the primary factor associated with cesarean section in healthy nulliparous women. She has published widely in many nursing, medical, and interdisciplinary scientific journals and serves as the editor of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing. She is a fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives and the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Lowe received a PhD in nursing science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and was trained as a nurse-midwife at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing.
