As a nurse-midwife, Mikalah provides comprehensive, safe and culturally sensitive health care by creating a climate of trust through open communication, adherence to evidenced based practices, supporting multicultural values and service to neighbor. She is a 2006 graduate from the University of Michigan Midwifery Program and has over 20 years of professional experience working as an RN in Labor and Delivery and Intensive Care prior to becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife. Her expertise is in fetal monitoring and preventative health care. Mikalah has written a Master's thesis on the Occiput Posterior Presentation. Other research interests include fetal monitoring, nonpharmacologic interventions in labor, Oxytocin administration, labor dystocia, obesity in women, postpartum depression and smoking cessation.