Joan Moon, EdD, CNM, RN, creator of A Woman’s World: Discovering the Dynamic Menstrual Cycle has a Doctorate of Education from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. She has a Master’s Degree in Nursing and a post-Master’s Certificate in Nurse-Midwifery. She is licensed as a Registered Nurse. She is also licensed as a Certified Nurse-Midwife in the state of Ohio and holds a Certification in Medical and Health Education from the Medical College of Ohio.

She has practiced women’s health since 1979, working as a labor and delivery nurse, childbirth educator, and lactation consultant. Dr. Moon has worked as a clinical nurse specialist and nurse-midwife, in providing advanced practice nursing for women’s reproductive needs, including pregnancy and birth, and has taught nursing at the university level.

She was an associate professor of nursing at the University of Toledo, an adjunct professor of nursing at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and is currently on the faculty of the Nursing Department at Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In 2007, Dr. Moon received the Esther Rome Award for Student Research presented by the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in Vancouver, BC. She Was a guest editor for seven years for Lamaze International Journal of Perinatal Education, which published her poetry "Vision and Verse" for five years.

Dr. Moon has presented her work both nationally and internationally. She is available for conferences and consulting on menstrual cycle education.

Joan's story:

In 1963, when I was a 19 year-old newlywed, I wondered about birth control. A physician for whom I worked told me about hormonal contraception. It seemed very foreign but he went on to say that it had been tested for 25 years and was the safest medication on the market. I chose not to use it.

Shortly after that conversation, one of my friends from high school died from a massive stroke after being placed on oral contraceptive hormones. It was subsequently discovered that the amount of estrogen in contraceptive pills was, indeed, fraught with danger. Times have changed and the amount of hormones in the “pill” are much lower now making much safer and women are warned of risk factors.

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