Tina Felten has been a certified nurse-midwife for the past 18 years. She began her career in health care as a registered nurse after 9/11 when she joined the U.S. Navy to serve her country in the Navy Nurse Corps, stationed in Bethesda, Md. She attributes many of her accomplishments from her time served during active duty, taking care of troops injured during the global war on terrorism. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Bloomsburg University in 2003, completed her Master of Science in Nursing and midwifery training at Frontier Nursing University (FNU) in 2007 and her Doctor of Nursing Practice from FNU in 2021. Dually certified as a women’s health nurse practitioner, she was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives in 2021 and completed a post-master’s degree in nutrition and integrative health at Maryland University of Integrative Health in 2022.

A Pennsylvania native, she resides in Quakertown with her husband, four children and two dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys going camping in her family’s RV as well as reading and going to Pilates, and you’ll usually find her working as an unpaid Uber driver as she ushers her kids to various sporting events. Tina is an associate practice leader for LVPG Obstetrics and Gynecology–Pond Road, where she helped open the region’s first outpatient midwifery office as well as starting CenteringPregnancy.

Tina is passionate about maternal mental health. She became certified in perinatal mental health in 2021 and founded WAVES (Women Adjusting to Various Emotional States), an integrated mental health program at Lehigh Valley Health Network, and has published and presented nationally on this topic. She serves on the Pennsylvania state chapter of Postpartum Support International, advocating to end the stigma around perinatal mental health. She also serves as an adjunct faculty for Thomas Jefferson University’s Midwifery & Women’s Health Program and loves being involved with OB-GYN resident education. As an advanced practice clinician, she thinks it’s important to offer a holistic approach to patient care and education and to remind doctors that when you hear hooves, remember to look for horses and not just the zebras.