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Amanda Cassidy, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, CLC joined the team at Columbia University in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in 2022. Amanda is a board-certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner who is trained in providing holistic, client-centered care for women from puberty through the adult lifespan. Her clinical interests include high risk pregnancy, maternal medical conditions, prenatal education, family planning and contraception counseling, the postpartum period, and access to postpartum sterilization. A core tenet of Amanda's comprehensive care is empowering patients to be active and informed members of their own healthcare team via excellent patient education and shared decision making. She is also a Certified Lactation Counseling and helps host weekly postpartum drop-in support groups for the Department of Ob/Gyn. Amanda completed her Doctor of Nursing Practice at Duke University in 2023 and is dedicated to evidence-based practice, nursing leadership, and the translation of research to clinical practice to improve health outcomes and care accessibility. She graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing from Duke University in 2021, and with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University at Vermont in 2017. Prior to her work as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, she was a Registered Nurse on labor and delivery and high-risk obstetrics units at academic medical centers, as well as a Registered Nurse in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Amanda is a member of the National Association for Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health and the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine.
