Your Queen Bees are doing a deep dive today to discuss what is like to navigate as patient and trying to advocate for yourself to get your hormones or at least have an evidence based, shared decision discussion with your provider.  Today we interviewed Heather Maurer, the CEO of NPWH (The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health), a leading organization for providers who care for women and gender related health concerns.  She shares her experience as patient and being denied her hormones at her last visit even after sharing the evidence with her provider.

Heather L. Maurer, MA, CAE is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH), the national professional association for certified women’s health nurse practitioners (WHNP-BCs) and other certified APRNs who provide women’s and gender-related healthcare. Heather has over 25 years working in healthcare including nonprofit, association, and accreditation organization management. She is one of the co-founding board of directors for Mother Health International, a 501c3 nonprofit organization, who collaborates with traditional midwives and certified midwives in supporting a midwifery model of care, free-standing birth center in Northern Uganda. Heather is passionate about addressing the barriers that prevent people from gaining access to evidence based holistic healthcare. She is a fierce advocate in support of healthcare policies that address health disparities and access to healthcare. At the heart of Heather’s work “is always the patient, the patient, the patient.”

Heather Maurer- @heatherlmaurer
NPWH -@npwh_official

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