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Meet Our Team

Elaine Keller-Duemig, CNM

Elaine Keller-Duemig, CNM (she/her)

Elaine joined Central Park Midwifery in 2013. She and the founder, Georgia Rose, worked together for a year prior to Georgia's retirement. Georgia was gracious enough to leave the practice with Elaine, and she and the other CPM midwives have been honored to carry on the CPM legacy. 

​Becoming a midwife was Elaine's dream for many years. During her journey, she earned a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and a certificate in LGBT studies from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. After studying abroad in Galway, Ireland, she decided to Wisconsin (forever!) and moved to Connecticut to earn her nursing degree at Quinnipiac University. She worked as a labor and delivery nurse at St Vincent's in Bridgeport, CT. She then pursued her dream of becoming a midwife and moved to New York to attend Columbia University to earn her midwifery degree while also working as a L&D nurse at St Vincent's in Greenwich Village. After graduating midwifery school, Elaine worked at Roosevelt (now Mount Sinai West) as a nurse and she always wanted to return as a midwife.

Before joining CPM, Elaine worked with a physician in a busy private practice in New Jersey. Elaine favors the continuity and close relationships that develop with clients and their families while working in a private practice setting.
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She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter (who was born at the birthing center at Mount Sinai West) and their two cats. She enjoys the beach, Coney Island, treats, and traveling.

Christina McPherson, CNM

Christina McPherson, CNM (she/her)

Christina joined Central Park Midwifery in March 2019. Her journey here began as a little girl with a fascination ignited by photos of her own birth.. She flirted with the idea of medical school and completed pre-med coursework alongside her BA in psychology at Barnard College in 2004. She then worked for four years as a research assistant in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University before midwifery steered her back on course with its client-focused, team-based model that prioritizes the individual’s agency and dignity. She then returned to Columbia University, where she earned a BS in nursing and MS in midwifery.

​In 2011, she began her career with the midwives at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, where she spent more than 7.5 years, focusing on providing education and access to care for a primarily underserved population. Although birth work is initially what called her to midwifery, she has also developed a passion for family planning and for breaking down barriers to contraceptive access.
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Christina speaks medically proficient, conversational Spanish and basic French.
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She lives in Queens and enjoys singing, theater, yoga, skiing, knitting, live-streaming videos of rescue cats, and rooting for her beloved Red Sox and Patriots (but don’t worry, she plays nicely with NY sports fans). She is child-free by choice and is the proud aunt of two phenomenal niblings. Auntie is her favorite title, but midwife is a very close second!

Cara Pauls, CNM, DNP

Cara Pauls, CNM, DNP (she/her)

Cara joined Central Park Midwifery in August of 2023. Her long and winding road to midwifery began with a childhood fascination for her own birth story, which her parents dutifully repeated year after year. After majoring in art and design and working in marketing and branding for over a decade, a cesarean birth with her first child and an empowering midwifery-led, doula-supported VBAC with her second flipped a switch, and she knew she wanted to be a midwife. She worked as a doula and lactation counselor for four years while preparing for midwifery school and, meanwhile, fell in love with Central Park Midwifery’s model of care.
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Cara attended Columbia University, earning an MS and DNP in midwifery. While in school, she had the incredible privilege of training as a student midwife with CPM and immediately felt at home in their intentional model of care. Returning to CPM as a midwife feels like coming home, and is a dream come true for Cara.

She has worked as a midwife at both Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Elmhurst Hospital. She feels honored to have offered free and low-cost care to hundreds of underserved and immigrant families across her home borough of Queens.

Cara speaks basic Spanish.

She lives in Queens with her partner, two children (both born at Mount Sinai West), and their shaggy pup, Lulu. During her time off, you can find her hiking with her family upstate, knitting up a storm, and enjoying long conversations with friends over coffee.

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Practice Administrator

Danielle Deluty (she/her)

Danielle Deluty joined Central Park Midwifery in November 2024. Danielle is a NYC-born childbirth and postpartum doula. 

After graduating from Barnard College, she joined the operations team at a healthcare software startup in NYC. Danielle went on to earn a JD from Boston University School of Law. While she was a law student, Danielle volunteered as a counselor on the crisis hotline at Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Danielle felt deeply aligned with the emotional nature of this work. 

After graduating in 2019, Danielle returned to NYC and left the legal world to explore avenues of care work. She found the world of birth work and things intuitively clicked! Danielle earned a Full Spectrum Doula certification with BADT, and a Breastfeeding Counselor certification. As a doula Danielle has supported over 100 families across NYC. 

Outside of birth, Danielle works as a standup comic. She produces a regular standup show called Birth Metal Comedy that fundraises for local community-led birth support networks. Most recently Birth Metal raised funds for Doulas En Español, a community org that provides low/no-cost doula support to migrant women in NYC.
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Midwifery Student

Elaine Tian, SNM, RN (she/her)

Originally from Seattle, Washington, Elaine (she/her) is a midwifery student at Columbia University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Studio Art and Art History from Carleton College. Her interest in reproduction and birth emerged during her studies, when she was drawn to depictions of the human body and fertility. This curiosity evolved into a career in healthcare after working as a medical assistant at Brooklyn Birthing Center. There, she collaborated closely with midwives and witnessed how labor and birth brought those subjects to life in powerful, deeply human ways.

Following this path, Elaine completed Columbia’s MDE program to become a registered nurse in 2022. She then worked as a labor and delivery nurse at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, caring for marginalized and underserved communities. Now in her final year of Columbia’s DNP midwifery program, she is committed to advancing equitable, person-centered reproductive care.

Elaine lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats. Outside of her clinical work and studies, she enjoys wandering museums, reading novels, painting, and relaxing with a comfort show.

Elaine Tian will be CPM's midwifery student from September 2025 - November 2025 seeing clients along side the midwives in the office for prenatal care, gynecology, and preconception visits. 

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CPM Herstory 

Georgia Rose, CNM

Central Park Midwifery was started by Georgia Rose, CNM. She was in private practice for 14 years and attended over 1600 deliveries. Georgia was always amazed and in awe of the wisdom of birth and the power of women. "Each woman has an innate knowledge of how she will give birth because she comes from a long line of successful mothers." Georgia wanted to help each woman discover her own wisdom and to encourage and support her unique journey to a positive and joyful birth experience.

In 2013, Georgia decided to expand the practice and prepare for her upcoming retirement. Elaine joined Georgia in December 2013.  

Since 2015, we have continued to carry on Georgia's legacy and wisdom.