Nora Finnigan Werra Faculty Achievement Award

Dr. Lisa C. Hanson
Grafton, Wis.

Lisa Hanson, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the Klein Professor of Women’s Health Research at Marquette University’s College of Nursing and associate director of the Midwifery Program. She co-founded the midwifery program in 1993 and has served as a faculty member for 32 years. 

Dr. Hanson also co-founded the Aurora Sinai Midwifery and Wellness Center clinical practice in 1987, from which she retired in 2016. She subsequently conducts clinical research in this thriving clinical practice. She leads several probiotics research teams and has received NIH funding for a clinical trial of a probiotic intervention to reduce Group B Streptococcus colonization. Dr. Hanson is widely considered an expert in antenatal probiotic interventions and has numerous publications on this topic as well as low technology approaches to women’s health care and labor and birth. She is the lead editor/author for the latest edition of Simkin’s Labor Progress Handbook. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. Dr. Hanson has mentored all levels of students, junior faculty colleagues and faculty colleagues seeking promotion and tenure. She describes mentoring as a natural extension of midwifery.