Biography
I am a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist with subspecialty expertise in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, an Assistant Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and a practicing physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center. I completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital and Maternal-Fetal medicine fellowship at Emory University. Nationally, I am the Vice Chair of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine’s Infectious Disease and Emerging Threats Committee and a member of the Infectious Disease, Immunizations and Public Health Preparedness expert work group of the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists. In these roles, I work to develop clinical guidance, lead advocacy and support implementation of maternal immunization into obstetric practices. I am a health services researcher funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and the Department of Health and Human Services for research related to maternal infectious diseases, clinical guidance implementation and evaluation, as well as an investigator for several maternal immunization clinical trials. As a high-risk pregnancy expert, I care for patients with complex conditions with special expertise in perinatal infectious disease. Additionally, I am the co-medical director of the Ryan White Funded Part D HIV in Pregnancy Clinic at Boston Medical Center..