Women’s Health Faculty Development Year

A message from the Director

Family physicians care for women throughout their lives and are well-positioned to manage them during pregnancy. They also care for their partners, regardless of gender, and their children, providing a unique role in the healthcare system. With the growing shortage of obstetric providers nationally and the increasing medical complexity of our patient population, family physicians are equipped to fill the gap in maternity care, including cesarean sections, and women's health services. For family physicians practicing in underserved, academic, and rural areas, providing family-centered maternity care services may be essential.

Our mission is to provide advanced knowledge and skills in women’s health and maternity care beyond those acquired during family medicine residency. During this fellowship, we will provide a solid foundation to hone your obstetric surgical skills and outpatient gynecological procedural skills, preparing you for an FM-OB career while serving the patients of central Florida. As junior faculty, you will also gain invaluable experience that will prepare you for a career in graduate medical education.

The lives of women and their families improve when primary care training incorporates holistic, comprehensive strategies for their care. An optimal training program in Women's Health and Family-Centered Maternity Care is best achieved in a robust multidisciplinary setting that nurtures excellence in educational innovation, clinical care, research, patient advocacy, and mentorship.

Tanya Anim, MD

Fellowship Director

About the Program

Goals

  1. Optimize women’s health care by teaching fellows how to recognize and address unique gender-based differences in their individual patients and the population.
  2. Foster the development of the next generation of physician leaders in women’s health education, care and research..

Women’s Health Care Competencies

  1. Develop the necessary knowledge and skills to provide competent office-based gynecologic care to women and adolescents.
  2. Develop the necessary knowledge and skills to provide competent pre-natal care to women.
  3. Become competent in low risk maternity care.

Program Highlights

Procedures

  • Our fellows have each averaged:
    • More than 200 C-Sections with more than 100 as the primary surgeon
    • More than 50 colposcopies

Mission Trips

  • Yearly mission trip to Mexico for evaluation and treatment of cervical dysplasia.

Women's Health Faculty

Tanya Anim, MD, FAAFP, DABFM

Tanya Anim, MD

Program Director

Ann Klega, MD

Ann Klega, MD

Women's Health Faculty

Kamini Geer, MD

Kamini Geer, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Women's Health Faculty

Mark Crider, MD

Mark Crider, MD

Loch Haven Faculty

Alumni

Clea Moore, MD

2023- 2024

Tierra Curry, MD

2023- 2024

Tiffany Smith-Sutton, MD

2022- 2023

Mackenzie Mattern, MD

2022- 2023

Kaizeen Mody, DO

2021- 2022

Trista Hughes, DO

2021- 2022

Rosa Joseph, DO

2020-2021

Currently working as FMOB faculty at BayCare/ FSU Family Medicine residency program in Winter Haven, FL.

Cristina Rabaza, MD

2020-2021​​​​​​

Currently working as Assistant Professor/ FMOB faculty at University of Colorado Anschutz

Fay Roepcke, MD

2019-2020

Dr. Roepcke is Currently working at University of Nevada Reno. She is a Faculty Member of the Family medicine Residency.. She is full spectrum care, including inpatient adults and peds, clinic, surgical obstetrics, wilderness medicine, and family planning.

Chantel Taylor, MD

2019-2020

Chantel is working at Olney Hamilton Hospital doing full spectrum rural FM with Ob: inpatient, outpatient, Ob with sections, ER, peds, and nursery.

Heather Griffith, MD

2018-2019

Heather is doing full scope family practice with OB, including c- sections and tubal ligation. She sees patients in the office from new borns to geriatrics. In the office she does first trimester ultrasounds, nexplanon/IUD placement and removal, colposcopies, neonatal circumcisions, toenail removal, casting of fractured limbs, joint injections, superficial wound debridement, and various dermatologic procedures. Heather rounds in the hospital about one week each month and work with residents during this time. She delivers 2-5 babies each month and does c-sections and vacuum deliveries when needed.

Sara Sholar, DO

2018-2019

Sara is working at a critical access hospital in Sidney, NE. She is doing full spectrum family medicine with OB and c-sections.

Jennifer Simpkins, MD

Jennifer works at True Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center, where she provides complete Obstetric care including deliveries with C-sections at AdventHealth Orlando. She also provides outpatient GYN management which to include procedures for contraception and management of abnormal paps including LEEPs.

Kyra Piñango, MD

Kyra is working in her hometown of Livingston, Montana. She is hospital-employed and paid completely on RVU/production with no time off limit. She practices Family Medicine with OB (including c-sections). She works 4 days per week in the outpatient clinic and take OB call 7-8 days per month and Peds call about 1 day a month. Until very recently she was also working 7 Hospitalist shifts per month but decided to focus more on the outpatient setting for a more predictable schedule. Kyra feels the Family Medicine Residency and the Women’s Health Junior Faculty year prepared her very well for her current practice.

Elina Petrosova, MD

Elina is working for Cleveland clinic at an outpatient only office in palm beach gardens Florida. She practices family medicine with women’s health and practices contraception and hormone replacement and osteoporosis etc.

Sadia Ali, MD

Sadia is working at an FQHC in Miami. She practices outpatient adult medicine and outpatient OB/Gyn and currently have hospital privileges for vaginal deliveries. On average she has been performing 6-8 deliveries per month. In clinic, she has lots of procedures. IUDs, colposcopy, EMB, LEEPs, nexplanons. Sadia works with medical students and residents also.

Program Information

Application Process

Join Our Fellow Team

To apply, please submit the following for consideration:

  • Completed Application Form
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Personal Statement
  • 3 letters of reference, including program director
  • Official Transcripts of USMLE results
  • Official Medical School Transcript
  • In-training exam results

All documents to be sent by email (no faxes).

Our program is participating in a new consortium of FMOB fellowships who have agreed to not require a response from applicants to fellowship offers until October 15.

We, and other programs participating this year, may offer a fellowship spot to applicants at any time, and those applicants may accept at any time, but we will not offer that spot to another applicant until after October 15 unless the position is declined by the applicant.

Programs participating in this initiative should tell you they are doing so, but please ask if you are unsure. We also strongly encourage you, and all applicants, to notify all programs at which you interviewed when you accept a spot at any program, to ensure the process is smooth for all programs and applicants. This will also enable us to offer that spot to another applicant if you have been offered a position at your more preferred location.

As such, beginning today we will start contacting our top candidates to offer positions. We will continue to work down our rank order list through the week of October 15.

Thank you so much for your patience as we work through this new process with our FM OB Fellowship Consortium partners! We pray everyone lands where their heart desires!

Women's Health Application

Application

Please send by email completed application and materials to:

Mark A. Uva
Program Supervisor
133 Benmore Drive, Suite 201
Winter Park, FL 32792
Phone: 407-646-7469

Mark.Uva@AdventHealth.com

Fellowship Contact Information

Mark and Christine are the coordinators the Family Medicine Allopathic Residency, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, and the Women's Health Faculty Development Year Fellowship at AdventHealth Winter Park.

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