CANANDAIGUA – Certified Nurse Midwife Shannon Welker has joined the Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB-GYN) practice affiliated with F.F. Thompson Hospital’s Canandaigua Medical Group.
A member of the American College of Nurse Midwives, Welker is a Macedon resident who received her master’s in midwifery from the Thomas Jefferson University College of Health Professions in Philadelphia, Pa. Her bachelor’s in nursing is from St. John Fisher College in Rochester.
In 2021 and 2022, Welker worked as a student nurse midwife with the UR Medicine Midwifery Group. She has also worked as a registered nurse in The Birth Center at UR Medicine for the past six years. Previously, Welker worked in Neurology and Epilepsy at the UR Medical Center.
Welker, who is certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board, will be based at the OB-GYN practice’s Canandaigua location until the opening of the new Farmington Medical Group office in August of this year. Then she will be permanently based there, with Dr. Jillian Babu and Physician Assistant Morgan Bessey. With three additional nurse midwives, five physicians, and two nurse practitioners, the OB-GYN practice also has locations in Victor and Geneva.
For more information, visit www.ThompsonHealth.com/OBGYN.