Lisa Lepine, M.D.

Medical Director

 

For Dr. Lisa Lepine, working in women’s health is more than providing medical care. Her passion to empower women through health care stems from early personal experiences. Born to teen parents with insufficient resources, she experienced domestic violence, financial stress, and a family break-up. With her mother on welfare to support Lisa and her two sisters during the 1970s, she was also influenced by the feminist movement and a growing awareness of injustices—apparent and subtle—against women. Mindful that we are more than our circumstances and we can overcome them, Lisa encourages women to maximize their resources and uncover their strengths. She has chosen to work in indigent care and nonprofit settings throughout her career because she sees this work as a path to social justice.

Lisa recognizes education as key to improving the status of women worldwide, permitting women to make informed health care decisions, and advancing the practice of medicine. After residency, she expanded her global perspective of health through the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a public health training program at the Centers for Disease Control. She has done public health and clinical work in the developing world, including Kenya, Mexico, Bangladesh and Honduras. She later held faculty positions at both the University of Washington in Seattle and at Emory University, where she enjoyed teaching the next generation of physicians.

While at Emory University, Lisa served as the gynecologic consultant for the Women’s Health Initiative, the large multi-center trial on hormone use in menopause. Out of that experience has grown one of her primary clinical interests: providing comprehensive, individualized approaches to women seeking menopausal care. She also works to stay current surgically, performing cutting edge techniques that convert traditional open surgeries into outpatient procedures, including laparoscopic hysterectomy and minimally invasive slings for urinary incontinence.

Areas of particular interest to her work at Women’s Health are long-term and permanent contraception (including Implanon, Essure, and tubal ligation) to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortion, evaluation and treatment of abnormal pap smears (colposcopy, LEEP), and education on the human papilloma virus (HPV). She is a strong proponent of the new vaccine against HPV, which promises to reduce rates of abnormal pap smears, cervical cancer, and genital warts. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is bilingual (Spanish.)
 

To learn more about Dr. Lepine and her philosophy of care, see this article from the Daily Camera.

 

 

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