Scholarships & Awards

The Louis M Hellman MD Midwifery Partnership Award is given jointly by The Midwife Foundation, Inc., the American College of Nurse Midwives, and the Midwifery Business Network. 

The award recognizes an obstetrician gynecologist who has been a champion/supporter of midwifery practice. The physician must be a 

Fellow or Junior Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetrician-Gynecologists (ACOG.)

To be eligible for the Louis M Hellman MD Midwifery Partnership Award, the nominee must:

Demonstrate the following:

• Excellence in clinical practice, education, administration and/or research focused on the health 
• care of women.
• Leadership in health care for women through the collaboration of physicians and midwives.
• Advocacy for vulnerable and/or underserved women.

Be a Fellow or Junior Fellow of ACOG.