ELISE ERICKSON

PhD, CNM, FACNM

Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing

Eliseerickson@arizona.edu

Elise Erickson, PhD, CNM, FACNM is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing and Pharmacy at the University of Arizona. She started her career as a Certified Nurse Midwife in 2005, she earned a PhD in 2018 at Oregon Health and Science University and has been conducting research on childbirth related physiology, care practices and maternal health. She incorporates epigenetic, pharmacogenetic and methods that include examination of social determinants of health in her work. She has received funding from NIH for a fellowship in Women’s Health Research (BIRCWH K12) and a K99-R00 grant to pursue epigenetic aging biomarkers in relationship to maternal morbidity and advanced maternal age outcomes. In 2021 she was awarded prizes in Innovation and Health Disparities for the Decoding Maternal Morbidity Challenge, hosted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a mixture model approach. She also uses wearable sensors in her research and is investigating physiologic signal patterns during pregnancy and postpartum events.