Lorrie Kaplan
Executive Director

Lorrie joined ACNM as Executive Director in May 2007. She has 25 years of experience in health policy, advocacy, communications, publications, and education, including ten years as Executive Director of the National Home Infusion Association, a multi-disciplinary health care association representing pharmacies providing I.V. therapies for home care patients. Lorrie believes passionately in the value and importance of midwifery care in the U.S. and globally. As a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Paraguay she specialized in maternal and child health, partnering with a local auxiliary nurse-midwife. In 1989, she and her husband Bob had a joyous experience with midwifery for the birth of their second child.