Abigail Wilpers, PhD, WHNP-BC
Research
Abigail received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College and her Master of Science from the Yale School of Nursing. She went on to complete a doctoral program at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholar. Abigail’s dissertation research identified critical components of nursing practice in the multidisciplinary approach to fetal diagnosis and management.
After graduation, Abigail was appointed to the Maternal-Fetal Health Postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Yale School of Medicine where she completed a year of mentored training in clinical research to improve the health of mothers and infants. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale School of Medicine.
As a clinician, Abigail is a member of the Fetal Care Center team at Yale New Haven Hospital and cares for women and families whose pregnancies are complicated by fetal anomalies. Abigail is also active on a national and international level, as a board member of the Fetal Therapy Nurse Network (FTNN), Fetal Health Foundation, and a co-chair of the Patient Advocacy Committee of the North American Fetal Therapy Network (NAFTNet). As a member of the New Haven community, Abigail is proud to serve on the Board of Directors of Hope After Loss, a non-profit organization that supports local families experiencing perinatal loss.
