Dr. Angie Chisholm has been a full-scope midwife since 2009. She has experience in various birth settings including home, hospital, and birth centers. She is committed to integrating the midwifery model of care in the US. She completed her master’s degree in nurse-midwifery at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) and her Doctorate at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Chisholm currently serves as a midwifery clinical faculty at FNU. She is motivated by the desire to improve the quality of healthcare and has led quality improvement projects on skin-to-skin implementation, labor induction, and improving transfer of care practices between hospital and community midwives. 

Dr. Mitchell earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Denison University in 1998. She then attended Case Western Reserve University, where she earned a Certificate in Nursing in 2000, a Master of Science in Nursing with a certificate as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2002, and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice in 2004. 

She is a faculty member at Frontier Nursing University. Since joining the university in 2018, she has served in different faculty roles that implemented online simulation to facilitate the transition from didactic to clinical courses. Currently, she is the Course Coordinator of Advanced Physical Assessment. She oversees the use of simulation in foundational learning of clinical reasoning in a large online course. 

Dr. Kevin Scalf is the Department Chair of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Department at Frontier Nursing University. Born and raised in rural southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Kevin Scalf graduated from Eastern Kentucky University as a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) in 2011. In 2020, he graduated from FNU’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Dr. Scalf joined FNU in 2018 and has held several faculty positions.

Dr. Scalf continues to work clinically as a PMHNP, helping to provide care to individuals who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis.  Dr. Scalf has worked in both outpatient and inpatient environments and provides care to individuals across the lifespan.