Signey Olson (pronouns: they/she) is a board-certified nurse practitioner and board-certified nurse-midwife in Washington, D.C. where they serve as an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Nursing. Her educational background includes degrees in nursing, political science, and community development. She completed her undergraduate training at the College of St. Scholastica in Minnesota and her graduate training through Frontier Nursing University and George Washington University Hospital.
Dr. Olson is a passionate educator and clinician committed to providing evidence-based fertility care to people of all backgrounds in an individualized and culturally responsive environment, with a focus on members of the LGBTQIA+ community. She believes in helping students feel empowered about their educational process by providing a strong foundation of curiosity. She welcomes open, collaborative discussion between herself and her students and believes that healthcare must be taught as a partnership between provider and patient.
Clinically, they have worked in reproductive endocrinology, fertility/IVF, and complex gynecology for the majority of their career. Their specialties include the impact of trauma on the body and care for patients with disordered eating patterns. Their doctoral work focused on ways to increase eating disorder screening within outpatient settings and how weight stigma may negatively impact clinical outcomes, particularly in the realm of reproductive health. She stays active in her professional community by helping develop national curriculum guidelines on gender-affirming hormones and weight-inclusive care for medical education programs. In 2022, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Nurse-Midwives.