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LuVerda Sayles Martin is a Certified Nurse
Midwife at Advocate Aurora Health Care
Women’s Care Center. Her job is to provide
healthcare to women of childbearing age,
including routine prenatal care, delivering
babies, postpartum care, and gynecology care.
She is committed to the improvement of health
outcomes in the African American community
and she is active in research aimed at
decreasing racial health disparities. Since the
beginning of her career as a registered nurse
and through her 21 year career as a Midwife,
LuVerda has remained committed to providing
access to quality healthcare and education to
underserved populations.

LuVerda holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UW Milwaukee, a Master of
Science Degree from Marquette University, and a Doctorate in Nursing from UW
Milwaukee. Her doctoral research was focused on improving health outcomes
for African . American Women through educational efforts aimed to increase
Breastfeeding initiation. She has served as a clinical preceptor for students from
Marquette University, UW Milwaukee, Concordia University, Rosalind Franklin
College of Medicine, and Alverno College. She also serves as a mentor to
students interested in healthcare professions. She is well known for taking non-
traditional paths to encourage the success for members of the future
generation of leaders.
LuVerda is the wife of Gregory Martin and the mother of three daughters,
Gabrielle Lena, a sophomore Pre-medicine major at Howard University, Blair
Wanda, a senior at Homestead High School, and Lindsey Priscilla, a 7th Grader
at Steffen Middle School.

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