Overview
As an academician in Obstetrics and Gynecology, I serve as an administrator, educator, and well-respected clinician. My faculty practice provides primary healthcare throughout the female life cycle, prenatal care, and gynecologic services. While I am committed to providing full spectrum Obstetrics and Gynecology, I have also found a few specialized niches which make my practice unique:
➢I serve as a referral provider for breast cancer patients with gynecologic problems: bleeding on Tamoxifen, vasomotor symptoms, contraceptive options, and women affected by BRCA mutations. I am a regional expert on non-hormonal alternatives for treating vasomotor symptoms among breast cancer survivors. I provide educational opportunities for other providers, so they can learn about these treatments. I founded a Menopause Specialty Clinic in 2016 providing consultation and primary gynecologic care to all women at this stage of life which is held each week and I am continuing this work at Duke through the Center for Menopause at Arringdon.
➢I am the only pediatric and adolescent gynecologists in the Triangle and am one of only a few in the entire Southeast Region. Families across North Carolina seek my expertise on a range of pediatric and adolescent gynecologic conditions: labial adhesions, prepubescent bleeding and vaginitis, adolescents with bleeding diatheses and heavy menstrual bleeding. I also provide gynecologic care for disabled adolescents, whose care can sometimes pose additional challenges.
➢In addition, through my collaborative work seeing complex young patients I have developed several other multidisciplinary collaborations serving important needs for populations that often have difficulty finding knowledgeable comprehensive care elsewhere.
-I am the founder of the Congenital GU Anomalies Interest Group - a cross divisional and specialty group of clinicians that are working to improve education, collaboration, and a service-line here at Duke; e.g complex Mullerian Abnormalities
-I provide the adult care as well as expert consultation to Turner’s syndrome patients, in collaboration with Pediatric Endocrinology.
-I am the Faculty Co-director of Women and Girls with Bleeding Disorders Clinic with the Division of Hematology which was begun at UNC in 2018 and I am currently in the process of creating a similar clinic at Duke.
In addition to high quality innovative clinical care, medical education has been the other focus of my academic career. I have served in leadership leadership roles in both Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education summarized below:
➢I serve as a referral provider for breast cancer patients with gynecologic problems: bleeding on Tamoxifen, vasomotor symptoms, contraceptive options, and women affected by BRCA mutations. I am a regional expert on non-hormonal alternatives for treating vasomotor symptoms among breast cancer survivors. I provide educational opportunities for other providers, so they can learn about these treatments. I founded a Menopause Specialty Clinic in 2016 providing consultation and primary gynecologic care to all women at this stage of life which is held each week and I am continuing this work at Duke through the Center for Menopause at Arringdon.
➢I am the only pediatric and adolescent gynecologists in the Triangle and am one of only a few in the entire Southeast Region. Families across North Carolina seek my expertise on a range of pediatric and adolescent gynecologic conditions: labial adhesions, prepubescent bleeding and vaginitis, adolescents with bleeding diatheses and heavy menstrual bleeding. I also provide gynecologic care for disabled adolescents, whose care can sometimes pose additional challenges.
➢In addition, through my collaborative work seeing complex young patients I have developed several other multidisciplinary collaborations serving important needs for populations that often have difficulty finding knowledgeable comprehensive care elsewhere.
-I am the founder of the Congenital GU Anomalies Interest Group - a cross divisional and specialty group of clinicians that are working to improve education, collaboration, and a service-line here at Duke; e.g complex Mullerian Abnormalities
-I provide the adult care as well as expert consultation to Turner’s syndrome patients, in collaboration with Pediatric Endocrinology.
-I am the Faculty Co-director of Women and Girls with Bleeding Disorders Clinic with the Division of Hematology which was begun at UNC in 2018 and I am currently in the process of creating a similar clinic at Duke.
In addition to high quality innovative clinical care, medical education has been the other focus of my academic career. I have served in leadership leadership roles in both Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education summarized below:
- Medical Director of Resident Continuity Clinic at UNC 2012 -2021
- DWHA Rotation Director for Duke PGY-1 and Curriculum Committee member
- Course Director; 4th year elective Ambulatory OB/GYN Women’s Health Selective since 2018 -21 UNC
- Reproductive Block Director - Duke School of Medicine - Spring 2022; Co-Course Director of Reproductive Medicine taught for 5 weeks each fall to second year medical students 2016 -2021
- Co-Clerkship Director of Care of Specialized Populations from 2016 –2020. This clerkship incorporated OBGYN, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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2022 - Present
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke Women's Health Associates,
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Massachusetts, Medical School ·
1996
M.D.