Biography
Dr Woodhams is the Division Director of Family Planning, as well as the Program Director for the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning, and the Medical Director of Ambulatory Services for the Department of OBGYN. She is an avid research collaborator, having been co-PI on several NICHD Complex Contraceptive Trials Network tasks.
She is a national leader in understanding and studying substance use disorder and addiction for patients undergoing abortion. Her research interests include the intersection of substance used disorder and reproductive health, abortion service delivery improvement, and patient centered service delivery in reproductive health care.
As an educator, in addition to curricula building for students, residents, and fellows, Dr Woodhams is interested in interdisciplinary education on family planning topics, giving lectures, seminars, and webinars in many aligned areas of reproductive healthcare. She has also published in several non-OBGYN journals with an eye towards improving contraceptive care for patients with complex medical conditions, seeking care in their clinical homes.
As a clinical operations leader, Dr Woodhams oversaw a complex integration project bringing anesthesia services into the ambulatory procedure space, both improving patients experience with ambulatory procedures as well as decanting a bursting OR schedule. Now as medical director of ambulatory services, Dr Woodhams works with clinical leads in both inpatient and outpatient spaces to work towards mitigating disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality among Black and brown pregnant people.