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  • Depression during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Symptoms
  • Depression treatments
  • Where to get help
Photograph of Sheila Ward, Certified Nurse-Midwife

 

D. Sheila Ward APRN, CNM, PMHNP

Portrait of Sheila Ward
  • Graduated from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in 1981
  • Practiced full scope nurse-midwifery for 9 years.
  • Master’s in Nursing Science from the University of Louisville School of Nursing, 1995, and acquired post master’s certification in adult psychiatric nursing in 2003.
  • Twenty-two years of service with the University of Louisville Dept of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health
  • Three years of practice with the University of Louisville Psychiatry Dept.
  • Teaches, consults, lectures and publishes on the treatment of mental health during pregnancy and postpartum
  • Completed the Mind/Body Infertility Professional Training Program with Alice Domar PhD, 2005 
  • Licensed by the Kentucky Board of Nursing to prescribe medications and provide psychotherapy

Member of:

  • American College of Nurse-Midwives
  • American Association of Psychiatric Nurses
  • Past president of Kentucky Coalition of Nurse-Practitioners and Nurse-Midwives
  • Marce´ Society — the International Perinatal Psychiatry Research Organization
  • Postpartum Support International
  • President of Postpartum Support Kentuckiana