Complex Family Planning Team
Elisabeth Woodhams, MD MSc: elisabeth.woodhams@bmc.org
Dr. Woodhams (she/her/s) is the Program Director for the Complex Family Planning Fellowship and the Division Director of Family Planning. She is also the Director of Ambulatory Services for the Department of OBGYN, and an Assistant Professor of Obstretrics and Gynecology at BU School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from the University of Arizona in 2007, and completed her residency in OBGYN at BMC in 2011. She then completed a family planning fellowship at the University of Chicago, where she also recieved her Masters of Science (MSc). During fellowship, she was also a fellow in the Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy, and worked with ACOG on LARC policy implementation. After fellowship, she wokred as the Medical Director of Family Planning at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, where she received a Ryan Residency Award, and was the Title X Clinic Director. Dr. Woodhams was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2009, and received several teaching awards for medical student education. Dr. Woodhams’ research interests include the intersection of substance use disorder and reproductive health, integration and implementation of family planning services into non-OBGYN clinical fields, and family planning services access among underserved populations. She co-leads the SFP SPeical Interest Group in Substance Use Disorders, and received the Best Investigator in Training Award from the Society of Family Planning in 2013 for her original research.
Katharine White, MD MPH: katharine.white@bmc.org
Dr. White (she/her/s) is the Vice Chair of Academics in the Department of OBGYN at Boston Medical Center and is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in OBGYN at Baystate Medical Center, and her Fellowship in Family Planning at Columbia University (where she also received her masters of public health). Dr. White is active in multiple research studies in various areas of contraception and abortion. She is the principal investigator for the Partners In Contracpetive Choice and Knowledge (PICCK) program, to improve contraceptive access and quality across Massachusetts birth hospitals. She frequently lectures locally and nationally on topics related to reproductive health. Dr. White has published two books with Mayo Clinic Press, Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss (10/2021) and Your Sexual Health (05/2022). She is also on the advisory board for Women’s Health magazine.
Rachel Cannon, MD MSc: rachel.cannon@bmc.org
Dr. Cannon (she/her/s) is an Attending in the Department of OBGYN and Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine. She completed an undergraduate degree in Human Physiology at Boston Unviersity. She then completed her medical degree at University of Massachusetts followed by her residency in OBGYN at Northwestern University. She went on to Family Planning Fellowship at Boston University/Boston Medical Center and received a Master’s in Health Sciences at the BU School of Public Health. She now servies as the Ryan Program Director for the OBGYN residency program. Her academic research interests include contracpetive counseling, reproductive coercion, abortion stigma, and reproductive health for people with complex medical problems. She participates in local and national advocacy groups for reproductive health. She is the co-chair of the OBGYN department’s Health Equity Committee, aimed to promote anti-racist practices and create an inclusive work environment.
Kelly Treder, MD MPH: kelly.treder@bmc.org
Dr. Treder (she/her/s) is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecolgy in the Boston University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from University of Washington School of Medicine and her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Washington School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Northwestern University/Stroger Hospital of Cook County and her fellowship in Family Planning at Boston University. Her research interests include reporductive health inequities and the impact of racism on reproductive health.
Rasha Khoury, MD MPH: rasha.khoury@bmc.org
Dr. Khoury, a Palestinian physician and public health activist born and raised in East Jerusalem, is an Attending in the Department of OBGYN and Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine. She moved to the US for medical training, graduated from Yale School of Medicine and completed her residency in OBGYN at the University of California San Francisco. Committed to reproductive justice and bodily autonomy she pursued a fellowship in Complex Family Planning and Global Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and received her Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2014 she moved back home to Palestine and fulfilling a lifelong dream joined MSF (Doctors Without Borders) where she completed surgical missions (working in emergency obstetrics and safe abortion care) in Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Côte D’Ivoire, Iraq and for more than a year in Afghanistan. In 2017 Dr. Khoury returned to the US to work clinically in high-risk obstetrics and abortion care, completed a fellowship in Maternal and Fetal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY with a research focus on reducing severe maternal morbidity and mortality. She was elected to the MSF- USA Board of Directors in 2019 where she works to exerice participatory leadership, uplift and amplify the voices of patients and staff in the global MSF movement. Central to all her work is the drive to share power with affected communities, co-create knowledge and evidence and disrupt the status quo.
Alexa Arlos, WHNP MSN: alexa.arlos@bmc.org
Alexa (she/her/s) received her MSN at Massachusetts General Institute of Health Professions in 1993. She specialized in Women’s Heath and received her Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner certificate the same year. She has been a member of the BU School of Medicine Faculty since 2005. During her many years as an NP, she worked in resource-poor settings in the US and Haiti. Her speciality is Family Planning with special interest in complex contraception and refugee/immigrant reproductive health issues.
Jennifer Farraye, MSN NP: jennifer.farraye@bmc.org
Jennifer (she/her/s) is an Assitant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in health sciences and public health from Boston University, and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from MGH Institute of Health Professions where she was the recipient of the Professional Nurse Traineeship Grant Award. She has been in practice at Boston Medical Center since 2015 where she provides comprehensive reproductive health care services and is an integral part of the Reporductive Endocrinology and Infertility Team.
Anissa Dickerson, CNM MSN MPH: anissa.dickerson@bmc.org
Anissa (she/her/s) provides family planning and abortion services through the BMC BEACON Clinic. She is also a Co-Director of the Refugee Women’s Health Clinic (RWHC). The clinic provides comprehensive women’s health services to refugee, asylum seeking, and recent immigrant communities in the Greater Boston area.