Maria Crippen is a Board Certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. She earned her undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, cum laude in May 2000. She spent the next eleven years working as a Labor and Delivery nurse. She earned her Master's degree at Old Dominion University in December of 2010. She completed her graduate clinical training at Complete Women's Care and has now become the newest member of the CWC team. Her interests are support of the normal labor and delivery process, adolescent gynecologic health and birth control counseling. Maria and her husband Marc live in Chesapeake with their two daughters.
Michelle was born and raised in the Hampton Roads area. She received her Bachelor's degree in Nursing and her Master's degree of Nursing from Old Dominion University. She is certified as a Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. She began her nursing career on a medical/surgical unit and then quickly moved to becoming a labor and delivery and postpartum nurse. From there she returned to school for her advanced practice degree and has now been in practice as a Nurse Practitioner since 2007.
She is a member of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health. She has many interests outside of work, including reading, music, baseball, spending time with her family, and watching hockey games. She has one son named Cameron and will be married to Josh in April of 2011. Her clinical interests include preventative health, adolescent gynecology and low risk obstetric patients.
Julie Rekant is a board certified Nurse Practitioner who trained as a student at Complete Women’s Care and since has become a member of the team. She received her Masters of Science in nursing from Old Dominion University in December of 2003 with a certification as a family nurse practitioner. She then became board certified and practices in the women’s health specialty. Julie’s emphasis is patient education and spending time with her patients.
She enjoys fitness, especially hot yoga and cross training. Julie is committed to fundraising for cancer research and participating in cancer awareness events, specifically pediatric cancer. She and her husband Evan are enjoying their two children.