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MO MCH Director & Public Health Nursing Manager
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
Jefferson City, Missouri
Martha Smith, MSN, RN, is the Missouri MCH Director and Public Health Nursing Manager at the Department of Health and Senior Services, where she also oversees the Title V MCH Services Block Grant and is a Branch Director in the Emergency Response Center. Martha earned her BS and a dual MS in Nursing from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, with specialized focus in Child/Family Advanced Practice Nursing and Nursing/Healthcare Administration. She began her career in nursing in 1986, was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing in 1991, became certified as a Child/Family Clinical Nurse Specialist in 1994, and has been a licensed administrator since 2013. Her professional experience encompasses a diversity of nursing roles, including patient care provider, clinical nurse specialist, nurse consultant, nurse educator, healthcare regulator, healthcare administrator, and program manager/director, with undergraduate and graduate didactic and clinical instruction in Child/Family Nursing, Obstetrical Nursing, Human Growth & Development, Leadership & Management, Community and Public Health, and Life Course Perspective. She has worked in a variety of healthcare settings, including primary, secondary, and tertiary care, state government, and academia, but her passion is population-based maternal and child health, seen through the lens of the Life Course Perspective. Martha’s public health experience includes maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting, children and youth with special care needs, school health, emergency preparedness, community-based health education and screening, state public health program management, and statewide public health system leadership. Since 1997, Ms. Smith has owned a private healthcare consulting company, providing consultation to hospitals, schools, home/hospice agencies, other healthcare providers and organizations, and private entities. In her personal life, Martha is the proud mother of adult quadruplets (2 boys & 2 girls), and volunteers as a mentor for youth, young pregnant women and new moms.
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:25 PM ET