Dr. Ayesa Hilvano currently serves as the Obstetric Anesthesia Director at St Elizabeth Healthcare - Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, KY and is a council member with the Women Health Institute at St Elizabeth Healthcare. Dr. Hilvano also serves as the Board Director at Seven Hills Anesthesia in St Elizabeth Division and Chairs the Compliance Committee at Seven Hills Anesthesia. Dr. Hilvano is a Diplomate in the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Neese is a practicing Obstetrician/ Gynecologist in Louisville, KY. She is the current Medical Director of Quality for Women’s Services at Norton Healthcare. Lyndsey is also the Section Chair for the Kentucky Section of ACOG. She completed her medical degree at the University of Alabama Birmingham and her Residency training at the University of Louisville. Dr. Neese’s mission is to provide safe, equitable care for all women.

Dr. John O’Brien specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Kentucky, where he serves as Medical Director for Labor and Delivery and Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. O’Brien graduated from Kalamazoo College in Michigan with a B.A. in Biology and from Wayne State University in Detroit with an M.D. in 1988. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1992 and a Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine in 1994 at the University of Tennessee.

Cheryl Parker is the Director of Nurse Anesthesia Program at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky. She is also an actively practicing obstetric anesthetist providing services with NorthStar Anesthesia at Norton Hospital, Labor & Delivery department in Louisville. 

She earned her BSN from Eastern Kentucky University and her MSN and DNP from Murray State University. She has been a nurse for 30 years, working primarily in the areas of women's health, specifically: Postpartum, L&D, and NICU. For the last 17 years her focus has been Obstetric Anesthesia. She is a member of AANA (American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology), KyANA (Kentucky Anesthesia Nurses Association), SOAP (Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology), KyPQC (Kentucky Perinatal Quality Collaborative), and a long-standing member of AWHONN (Association for Women's Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nursing), where she served 2 years on the Public Policy Committee. In 2020 she was instrumental in the submission and acceptance of KY-HR73; approving legislation to establish January 23rd as Women's Health Awareness Day; and making Kentucky the 5th state in the nation to inaugurate an MHA resolution. In 2023 she was inducted as a Fellow of both the AANA and AWHONN. Her primary practice is the Director of the UofL Nurse Anesthesia Program.

Dr. Parker's publications include: a case report in JOGNN (Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatal Nursing), May 2015, entitled: An Innovative Nursing Approach to Caring for an Obstetric Patient with Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS); in 2019 she served on AWHONN's Evidence Based Guidelines-Revision Science Team, which produced the evidence-based clinical practice guideline entitled: Analgesia and Anesthesia in the Intrapartum Period, and in October 2020, an AWHONN Practice Brief and Podcast entitled: Lower Extremity Nerve Injury in Childbirth.

Dr. Sara Petruska is a generalist obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of Louisville, where she serves as Medical Director for Labor and Delivery and Associate Dean for Admissions. She graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in 1994 and from the University of Florida with an M.D. in 2000. She completed residency training in 2004 and a fellowship in Medical Education in 2008 at the State University of New York Stony Brook. In 2008, she relocated to Louisville with her husband Jeff as they joined the faculty of UofL together. She believes we are at our best when we are a team with the patient at the center.

Dr. Yunus Shah is a dedicated, Board Certified Physician specializing in the practice of Anesthesiology with particular interests/expertise in the fields of Obstetric Anesthesia, Pain Management and Addiction Medicine. He serves as the attending Anesthesiologist for Labor and Delivery at Norton Hospital and Norton Women and Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY. Dr. Shah specializes in ante-partum consults for high risk/complicated pregnancies, intra-partum management with whole range of analgesia and anesthesia options, general anesthesia, epidural/spinal/CSE neuraxial anesthesia, as well as IV medications for pain control.

Linda Berry, RN, MSN, Linda Berry currently serves as a clinical Nurse Coordinator at the University of Kentucky. She completed BSN at the University of Kentucky and MSN at Benedictine University. Her interest in quality obstetric care was developed and nurtured early in her nursing career at the University of Kentucky. As a native Kentuckian, she is familiar with the challenges that lack of access to quality and appropriate health care pose. She found myself being drawn to extremely ill and complex obstetric cases. Her curiosity for care coordination and case management grew and she began to question how patient outcomes would be affect if more concerted efforts were made at the beside and extended to ambulatory care. When she left the bedside to strengthen care coordination at Polk Dalton's OB/GYN clinic in 2013. There, she had the opportunity to participate in the development of the Perinatal Assisted Treatment Home (PATHways) program for pregnant women with opiate use disorder and to work toward more succinct care for women with language and financial barriers.