Aviva Lee-Parritz, MD
Emeritus Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Biography
Aviva Lee-Parritz began her career as a nurse with a deep passion and commitment to making an impact in the lives of each patient placed in her care. She then pursued another commitment – one that she made to herself – and began training as a physician. Since then, she has committed her life to maternal health and reproductive justice. Through myriad clinical and administrative roles of increasing responsibility, she evolved in her practice and concurrently became a staunch advocate for the right to choose to have a child and the right to raise families in safety – all values that she has carried into her role as chair and chief of the department.
Among Lee-Parritz’s many accomplishments leading the department was her role in supporting faculty to implement programs that focus on mitigating inequities in health outcomes, such as amplification of Project Respect as a national model for the care of pregnant persons with substance use disorder; leading Equity in Pregnancy, the first clinical vertical in the Boston Medical Center Heath System’s (BMCHS) Health Equity Accelerator; and building of a robust research portfolio. She also championed faculty-developed programs that focus on eliminating racial inequities in sexual health, family planning and treatment including for women with fibroids and gynecologic cancers.
Other Positions
- Assistant Dean of Faculty Practice, Dean’s Office, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Education
- Tufts University, MD
- Columbia University, BS
Publications
- Published on 5/1/2023
Elansary M, Kistin CJ, Antonio J, Fernández-Pastrana I, Lee-Parritz A, Cabral H, Miller ES, Silverstein M. Effect of Immediate Referral vs a Brief Problem-solving Intervention for Screen-Detected Peripartum Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 May 01; 6(5):e2313151. PMID: 37171819.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/2/2022
Rowe SG, Stewart MT, Van Horne S, Pierre C, Wang H, Manukyan M, Bair-Merritt M, Lee-Parritz A, Rowe MP, Shanafelt T, Trockel M. Mistreatment Experiences, Protective Workplace Systems, and Occupational Distress in Physicians. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 May 02; 5(5):e2210768. PMID: 35522279.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/24/2019
McCloskey L, Quinn E, Ameli O, Heeren T, Craig M, Lee-Parritz A, Iverson R, Jack B, Bernstein JA. Interrupting the Pathway from Gestational Diabetes Mellitus to Type 2 Diabetes: The Role of Primary Care. Womens Health Issues. 2019 Nov - Dec; 29(6):480-488. PMID: 31562051.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/1/2019
McCloskey L, Sherman ML, St John M, Siegel H, Whyte J, Iverson R, Lee-Parritz A, Bernstein J. Navigating a 'Perfect Storm' on the Path to Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus After Gestational Diabetes: Lessons from Patient and Provider Narratives. Matern Child Health J. 2019 May; 23(5):603-612. PMID: 30949932.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/25/2019
Bernstein J, Lee-Parritz A, Quinn E, Ameli O, Craig M, Heeren T, Iverson R, Jack B, McCloskey L. After Gestational Diabetes: Impact of Pregnancy Interval on Recurrence and Type 2 Diabetes. Biores Open Access. 2019; 8(1):59-64. PMID: 30923644.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/3/2019
Yarrington CD, Hamer DH, Kuohung W, Lee-Parritz A. Congenital Zika syndrome arising from sexual transmission of Zika virus, a case report. Fertil Res Pract. 2019; 5:1. PMID: 30619616.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/8/2018
Bernstein J, Quinn E, Ameli O, Craig M, Heeren T, Iverson R, Jack B, Lee-Parritz A, Mccloskey L. Onset of T2DM after gestational diabetes: What the prevention paradox tells us about risk. Prev Med. 2018 08; 113:1-6. PMID: 29746972.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/6/2018
Hong X, Sherwood B, Ladd-Acosta C, Peng S, Ji H, Hao K, Burd I, Bartell TR, Wang G, Tsai HJ, Liu X, Ji Y, Wahl A, Caruso D, Lee-Parritz A, Zuckerman B, Wang X. Genome-wide DNA methylation associations with spontaneous preterm birth in US blacks: findings in maternal and cord blood samples. Epigenetics. 2018; 13(2):163-172. PMID: 28165855.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/8/2017
Mirzakhani H, Carey VJ, McElrath TF, Laranjo N, O'Connor G, Iverson RE, Lee-Parritz A, Strunk RC, Bacharier LB, Macones GA, Zeiger RS, Schatz M, Hollis BW, Litonjua AA, Weiss ST. The Association of Maternal Asthma and Early Pregnancy Vitamin D with Risk of Preeclampsia: An Observation From Vitamin D Antenatal Asthma Reduction Trial (VDAART). J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2018 Mar - Apr; 6(2):600-608.e2. PMID: 28923490.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/7/2017
Bernstein JA, Quinn E, Ameli O, Craig M, Heeren T, Lee-Parritz A, Iverson R, Jack B, McCloskey L. Follow-up after gestational diabetes: a fixable gap in women's preventive healthcare. BMJ Open Diabetes Res Care. 2017; 5(1):e000445. PMID: 28948028.
Read at: PubMed
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