Executive Officer
Iowa Department of Public Health
Kimberly Noble Piper, RN, BS, CPH, CPHG, is the state genetics coordinator and the
Executive Officer for the Center for Congenital and Inherited Disorders at the Iowa
Department of Public Health. She holds certifications in public health and public health
genomics. Ms. Noble Piper started her nursing career as a maternity nurse and manager
of maternity and perinatal services in a large hospital in Des Moines. Ms. Noble Piper was
the perinatal nurse consultant for the IDPH prior to becoming the state genetics
coordinator. Kim is responsible for administrative oversight of the state’s public health
genomic programs. This includes stillbirth surveillance and prevention, newborn
screening, maternal prenatal screening, regional genetics and neuromuscular clinics, Iowa
Registry for Congenital and Inherited Disorders (Iowa’s birth defects and stillbirth registry),
family health history programming, and life course theory.