MomDocFamily
The mission of MomDocFamily is to provide mentorship and support for women physicians facing the challenges and rewards of combining a medical career with motherhood. We are a multi-disciplinary group of women doctors representing all stages of careers and medical training. We are committed to supporting one another's efforts to attain professional success and personal satisfaction. Included in our mission is our dedication to learn from each other's experiences by openly discussing career and parenting strategies.
MomDocFamily (MDF) Co-Directors
Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, MDF Co-Director, is an Associate Professor of Medicine
and Obstetrics-Gy
necology (Clinical) at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Director of Primary Care Curricula for The Residency Program in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Women and Infants Hospital. Her professional interests include the health care response to intimate partner violence, medical education, and faculty development. She has a 16-year old daughter. E-mail: agottlieb@wihri.org
Lynn E. Taylor, MD, MDF Co-Founder and Co-Director, Assistant Professor of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, is an HIV/AIDS specialist in the Division of Infectious Diseases, focusing on prevention and treatment of hepatitis C and hepatitis B viruses in vulnerable populations and on the primary care of HIV-infected persons. She developed and directs Miriam Hospital's HIV/Viral Hepatitis Coinfection Program. Her research, patient care, teaching and community-based efforts involve extending hepatitis C virus (HCV) care to persons with HIV and co-existing psychiatric and substance disorders, and improving HCV screening, diagnosis and treatment uptake. She has 2 children, ages 10 and 13. E-mail: ltaylor@lifespan.org
MomDocFamily (MDF) Advisory Board
Lynn E. Iler, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a founding partner at Dermatology Professionals, Inc. in East Greenwich, RI. She specializes in skin cancer detection, prevention, and treatment. She has three sons ages 12, 10, and 9. Email: lynniler@gmail.com
Alice Y. Kim, MD FACC is a clinical Cardiologist with Brigham and Women's Cardiovascular Associates at Memorial and Kent Hospitals. She is also working in Boston with an interest in advanced valvular and structural heart disease after 8 years of private practice in New York. She is most happy finding adventures with her family including 3 boys (ages 4, 7, and 8) and husband.
E-mail:
AYKIMMD14@me.com
Neha Raukar, MD, MS, FACPis an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Division of Sports Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. As an emergency physician also certified in Sports Medicine, she is uniquely trained to care for the acutely injured athlete. Dr. Raukar specializes in the medical management of athletic and musculoskeletal injuries. She is currently serving on a committee with the Institute of Medicine on Concussion in Youth Sports. An advocate for legislation to protect athletes from returning to play before they are ready, Dr. Raukar testified at the state senate hearings. Her current research interests include consequences of concussion in the student-athlete, concussion in the trauma patient, and gender differences in orthopedic and sports medicine. She has two princesses, ages 5 and 3.
E-mail: nraukar@gmail.com
Beth Ryder, MD is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at The Warren Alpert Medical School (AMS) of Brown University. She practices general and minimally invasive surgery at the Miriam Hospital and at the VA Medical Center, both in Providence, RI. Her clinical and research interests are in the fields of bariatric surgery and surgical education. Dr. Ryder is also the co-director of the AMS Core Clerkship in Surgery. She has 2 children, a 4 year old daughter and a 7 month old son. E-mail: bryder@usasurg.org
Audrey R. Tyrka, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Director for Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience at Butler Hospital. Her research is focused on the neurobiological and psychiatric effects of stress, particularly childhood maltreatment and other childhood adversities. She has 2 children, ages 11 and 15. E-mail: audrey_tyrka@brown.edu
Members of the First MDF Advisory Board
From L-R: Drs. Anne Wold, Lynn E. Taylor, Julie Taylor, Amy Gottlieb, Beatrice Lechner, and Neha Raukar
Missing: Dr. Carolyn Blackman
Photo credit: Scott Kingsley
Upcoming MomDocFamily (MDF) events/programs
Save the Date!
Saturday, August 17th
MDF Summer Event
Time and location: tba
MDF - News/Resources/Updates
- To read, "278.00 Obesity, Not Otherwise Specified, published in JAMA, March 20, 2013 - Vol 309, No. 11, authored by Elizabeth Toll, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, please click here.
To read, "The Cost of Technology", published in JAMA, June 20, 2012 - Vol 307, No.23, authored by Elizabeth Toll, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, please click here. - To read, "Using a Professional Organization, MomDocFamily, to Understand the Lives of Physician-Mothers", published in Medicine & Health RI, Volume 95, No. 6, June 2012, please click here.
To read, "Establishing Paid Parental Leave for Male and Female Physicians", published in Academic Medicine and authored by MomDocFamily members, Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, and B. Star Hampton, MD, and UMass Medical School, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Joanna M. Cain, MD, please click here.
Together with The Rhode Island Breastfeeding Coalition and Rhode Island hospitals, MDF has developed an initial list of lactation accommodations available to physician and other employees of hospitals located throughout Rhode Island. Please click here to view the list.
- To read, a recent publication in Medicine & Health RI authored MDF members Marina M.C. MacNamara and Lynn E. Taylor, “State-Wide Support for Physician-Mothers Who are Breastfeeding,”please click here.
Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, RI sent out a press release about MomDocFamily that was "picked up" by several media outlets. To read the release, please visit:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/216160.php
- In the October 19, 2010 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine MomDocFamily member, Dr. Michelle Daniel, has written a powerful essay describing her experience as a physician and a mother in Haiti following the earthquake. To read, "A Mother in Haiti", please click here.
To read "Effectively Mentoring Physician-Mothers," published in Academic Medicine and authored by MomDocFamily members Beatrice E. Lechner, MD, Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, and Lynn E. Taylor, MD - please click here.
Articles Related to Mothers in Medicine
Jagsi R, Griffith KA, Stewart A, Sambuco D, DeCastro R, Ubel PA. Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers. JAMA, June 13, 2012- Vol 307, No. 22. PubMed PMID: 22692173 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1182859
Carnes, Molly, MD, MS. What Would Patsy Mink Think? JAMA, February 8, 2012 - Vol 307, No. 6 - 571-572. PubMed PMID: 22318277 http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/6/571.full
Jagsi R, Tarbell NJ, Weinstein DF. Becoming a doctor, starting a
family--leaves of absence from graduate medical education. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 8;357(19):1889-91. PubMed PMID: 17989381.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078163
Riba MB, Riba A, Riba E. Life as a balance beam: practical ideas for balancing
work and home. Acad Psychiatry. 2007 Mar-Apr;31(2):135-7. PubMed PMID: 17344454.
http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/31/2/135
Lahav G. How to survive and thrive in the mother-mentor marathon. Mol Cell.
2010 May 28;38(4):477-80. PubMed PMID: 20513421.
http://www.cell.com/molecular- cell/retrieve/pii/ S1097276510003746
SAEM Web Survival guide for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine
Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Survival Guide
Editors: Kathleen Clem, Ellen Weber, Sandra Schneider
Published 2009 – SAEM - To read, please click here
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For more information or specific inquiries, please e-mail: agottlieb@wihri.org or ltaylor@lifespan.org.