Dr. Bloch’s mission in nursing is to promote optimal health for women and their families through practice, teaching and research. As a certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner since 1981, she has practiced in a variety of settings: city clinics, HMOs, and private practice. Her current practice in a Philadelphia federally-funded prenatal center informs her teaching and research. At Drexel University, she teaches women’s health and research to BSN, MSN and doctoral nursing students. Her prior teaching experiences include an adjunct faculty position from 1988 - 1997 in the first Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner program in the U.S. which was federally funded and taught by Planned Parenthood Federation of America. From 2002 -2005, she was an Assistant Professor of Nursing at The College of New Jersey. View Biographical Sketch