Arielle Skalisky, DNP, APRN, CNM, PHN

Dr. Arielle Skalisky is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse who identifies as a Black Midwife. She graduated from the University of Minnesota's DNP program in 2020. She holds joint positions with MHealth Fairview/University of Minnesota Physicians and the University of Minnesota's School of Nursing, where she serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor. With over five years of experience in labor and delivery nursing, Dr. Skalisky is co-founder of the Indigenous and Midwives of Color Committee of the Minnesota Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Her clinical and research interests focus on perinatal mood disorders, substance use disorders in pregnancy, reproductive justice, and birth equity in minority and underserved communities, and she serves as co-chair of the Perinatal Equity Committee within the Minnesota Perinatal Quality Collaborative.

• Lang Global Leadership Scholar, American College of Nurse Midwives, 2021
• The Daisy Foundation Daisy Award: Nursing. 2018
• McNair Scholar, 2016
• McNair Scholar, 2015
• McNair Scholar, 2014

• Sigma Theta Tau International
• American College of Nurse-Midwives
• Member, MN ACNM Racism in Midwifery Education Taskforce
• MN Affiliate of ACNM Representative, MN Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MNPQC)
• Co-Founder, MN ACNM Affiliate Indigenous and Midwives of Color Committee

Neerland, C. E., Delkoski, S. L., Skalisky, A. E., & Avery, M. D. (2023). Prenatal care in US birth centers: Midwives' perceptions of contributors to birthing People's confidence in physiologic birth. Birth (Berkeley, Calif.), 50(3), 535-545.  doi: 10.1111/birt.12676

Neerland, C. E., & Skalisky, A. E. (2022). A qualitative study of US women's perspectives on confidence for physiologic birth in the birth center model of prenatal care. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 67(4), 435-441.  doi: 10.1111/jmwh.13349

Skalisky, A. (2015). Strategies to encourage postpartum weight loss. Journal for the McNair Scholars Program, 20. 

Skalisky, A. (2014). Insurance disparities for in versus out of hospital births. Journal for the McNair Scholars Program, 19, 92-97. 

Skalisky, A. "Hush Little Baby Don’t You Cry: A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Outcomes (Final Results)", American College of Nurse-Midwives Annual Meeting, Austin , Texas, January 01, 2019.

Skalisky, A., (Author), Saftner, M., (Author & Presenter), Shelton , J., (Author & Presenter) "A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Outcomes (Preliminary Results)", American College of Nurse-Midwives Annual Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia, January 01, 2019.

Her clinical and research interests include:

• perinatal mood disorders
• substance use disorders in pregnancy
• reproductive justice
• birth equity in minority and underserved communities.