Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Science Center COM Knoxville
As an Associate Professor and the Director of Women’s Health Research in my department, I serve as a liaison and collaborator on projects alongside clinicians in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Knoxville. In this role, I lead teams to increase the research capacity and productivity and provide scholarly activity training opportunities for trainees (graduate students, medical students, OBGYN residents, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Sports Medicine fellows). The scholarly activity mission of the Department of OBGYN is to improve the lives of women and infants in Tennessee through scientific investigation, quality improvement, and discovery.
I have broad training in basic and translational sciences and clinical research. My personal research interests are, primarily, in the fields of metabolism and physical activity and most of this work has been done among patients during pregnancy and/or postpartum or patients receiving care for gynecologic malignancy. I’ve been privileged to work on multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams that have published in the areas of gestational diabetes, obesity, postpartum depression, contraception, vaccination, obstetric and labor management and simulation, the impact of various interventions on maternal and neonatal health outcomes, chronic pelvic pain, gynecologic cancer and sports medicine.