East Lake Outpatient Center
3890 Tampa Road, Suite 304
Palm Harbor, FL 34684
(Located at the intersection of McMullen Booth Road
and Tampa Road.  See Map.)

Phone: 727-789-9006  ●  Fax: 727-789-9122
  

Leigh Ann is the newest member of the New Horizons team, joining the practice in August 2005.  Leigh Ann graduated from midwifery school in 1999, and started to practice locally in 2000, after moving to Florida to escape the New England winters and be close to family.  She holds a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a certification in Nurse-Midwifery from the Baystate Medical Center Nurse-Midwifery Education Program, also in Massachusetts.  She is licensed in the state of Florida as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner.

Prior to becoming a midwife, Leigh Ann had 10 years of experience as a labor and delivery, post-partum, and newborn nurse.  She worked as a birth assistant in a freestanding birth center where she assisted women through natural labor and childbirth with minimal medical intervention.  She taught prepared childbirth classes as a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and has extensive experience, both professional and personal, with breastfeeding support.

Leigh Ann derives great satisfaction from caring for women and their families during the childbearing process.  She believes that a positive, empowering experience during labor and birth holds enormous potential for spiritual and emotional growth, for both mother and family.  She strongly supports natural childbirth, but also respects a woman's ability to make choices best for her.  She too is available for a full-scope practice including obstetrical care, waterbirths, well-woman gynecology, family planning, perimenopause, and gentle care and counseling for teens.

When she's not busy with her career, Leigh Ann and her husband Gregg are occupied raising their two small children, Sam and Anna (a waterbirth baby!).  She enjoys camping, hiking, baking, running, and Kung Fu.  While she would prefer to have a cat, they have a prolific pair of Australian bearded dragons, Spike and Ruby, and a hamster, Puffy, as pets.

See Leigh Ann's Photo Gallery.