Meghan Eagen-Torkko, PhD, CNM, FACNM, is a clinician-scholar and nursing leader whose areas of scholarship include sexual and reproductive health, health equity, nursing ethics, and nursing scope of practice. She has published over 25 peer-reviewed papers in journals including Nursing Outlook, American Journal of Bioethics, Health Equity, and the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, where she also serves as Associate Editor, and has presented on her scholarly work over 50 times at national conferences. She is currently Associate Dean of Academic & Clinical Affairs at Wayne State University, and previously served as Director of Nursing at the University of Washington’s Bothell campus. She is the 2026 recipient of the National Abortion Federation’s Clinicians in Abortion Care Leadership Award, in recognition of her two decades of clinical, advocacy, and scholarly work in abortion care, which included expansion of abortion scope to include advanced practice clinicians in Washington State, as well as co-founding the first graduate certificate program in abortion care in nursing in the United States. Until recently she maintained a clinical practice in Title X clinics, serving uninsured and low-resource populations, and has served in a wide variety of leadership roles in the American College of Nurse-Midwives, where she was inducted as a Fellow in 2021. Her current focus of scholarship is in nursing practice in abortion care in the United States and ethical practice in sexual and reproductive healthcare, and she routinely horrifies her children by discussing both in public.