I am a board-certified OBGYN and Certified Physician Development Coach.
I attended Mount Holyoke College, followed by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. I headed west to the Bay Area, California for residency and postgraduate practice with Kaiser. After 5 years with Kaiser, I joined a private practice, where I am still working today (it was aquired by Stanford in 2016.) I delivered almost all of my own patients for over 15 years and eventually found myself unable to manage the demands of being the perfect doctor and the perfect mom (yes, cognitive distortion here). I cut my hours and gave up OB.
I became a physician wellness champion and trained with the HeartMath Institute in 2018 to become a certified HeartMath trainer. I started a physician wellness committee at my hospital and organized physician events, including the teaching of Heartmath techniques (for stress reduction.) I then trained to become a Certified Physician Development Coach in 2020 in order to make more of an impact for struggling physicians. I have been coaching midlife, mid-career women physicians since then. I still practice gynecology and menopause medicine three days a week. I am also a certified menopause practitioner through the North American Menopause Society (because that was going on at the same time as burnout.)
My goal is to help women physicians reconnect with their why, learn to set better boundaries, manage their time and their stress, learn self-compassion and learn to find balance and joy in their lives.
