Kari A. Radoff, MSN, CNM

Kari A. Radoff, MSN, CNM, FACNM, is a certified nurse-midwife at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she also serves as Associate Director of the Midwifery Service. She is also an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.

Kari earned her Masters of Science in Nursing and Nurse-Midwifery degree from the University of California, San Francisco, in 2010. She joined the faculty of BU/BMC in 2012, after completing a Fulbright grant in Nicaragua for which she developed a radio broadcast-based pregnancy education curriculum.

Her research interests include shared decisionmaking and promoting physiologic birth to reduce rates of primary cesarean birth. At BMC, she has supported the development of policies within Obstetrics that center choice for patients, including management of prelabor rupture of membranes, the use of nitrous oxide in labor, and coping with labor strategies. She is also clinical consultant for Partner to Decide, a nonprofit organization that is developing maternity care decisionmaking aids for patients.

Kari is dedicated to educating future maternity care providers about evidence-based maternity care. She was a founding member of the breastfeeding medicine clerkship at BU and developed the physiologic birth lecture series for BMC's OB/GYN residents.

Kari is fluent in Spanish and is committed to providing community-based care for the Spanish-speaking population in Boston and beyond. She is passionate about supporting women and pregnant people to make informed choices for themselves during pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period.