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Ronnie Sue Lichtman, CNM. ,LM, PhD, FACNM (born February 10, 1950) is a midwife, educator, writer and advocate for women's health. She has published widely for both lay and professional audiences. The Chair of the (Midwifery Education Program at The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center ) in New York City, she earned a Ph.D. in sociomedical sciences from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her MS in Maternity Nursing with a specialization in midwifery from Columbia University School of Nursing. She previously directed the midwifery programs at (Columbia University ) and SUNY Stony Brook.〔 Ronnie Lichtman is a well-known speaker for a variety of audiences.〔 == Early life == Ronnie Lichtman was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Her late father, Emanuel Lichtman, was an optometrist and her late mother, Gertrude Lichtman, was a bookkeeper. Her parents moved Lichtman and her two brothers, Allan and Steven, to the Bronx when she was 14 years old where Lichtman attended Christopher Columbus High School.〔 After graduating as valedictorian from Christopher Columbus High School, Lichtman attended Brandeis University for a year, leaving to join an anti-war group in New York City called The Resistance.〔 This was in the late 1960s during the height of the Vietnam War. Anti-war issues led Lichtman to become involved with the Women's Liberation Movement. She started a "small consciousness-raising group" of women who worked with The Resistance. Lichtman, along with several other women, founded a woman's magazine titled ''Up from Under''. She both wrote and edited articles for ''Up from Under''〔 Her article on the small group in women's liberation was widely reproduced and appeared in Gerda Lerner's anthology, ''The Female Experience: An American Documentary.'' "Working on health care articles for the magazine made me realize how important those issues were to women," Lichtman was quoted saying in a (New York Daily News article ).〔 "I knew I wanted to do something involving women, and I knew I had to go back to school. But I didn't want to do medical school because I was not really interested in pathology or disease."〔 Lichtman would go on to become a childbirth educator and earn a registered nursing degree from Bronx Community College in 1974 and eventually her master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronnie Lichtman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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