At HHS, we are committed to making this happen.” I’m excited this collaboration will help us fulfill the HHS Maternal Health Action Plan and vision that our nation is the safest for women to give birth. When mothers have better health, we create better opportunities for infants and the larger community to have better health.
“If we can standardize quality care for women during pregnancy and after giving birth, we can change the current trajectory of maternal and infant death. “Maternal health is an important indicator for infant health,” said Dorothy Fink, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health and Director, Office on Women’s Health. “We are proud to participate in this national initiative committed to improving patient outcomes – particularly as it relates to health equity among diverse populations.” “As the first freestanding hospital in West Virginia dedicated specifically to the care of women and their children, CAMC is proud to partner with Premier on this important initiative,” said Andrew Weber, administrator of CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital. Using a standardized data collection system, the program will be able to quickly generate solutions for safer obstetric and neonatal care that can be implemented nationwide. The HHS Perinatal Improvement Collaborative will test interventions and protocols to reduce preventable deaths and complications among mothers and their babies. The collaborative is overseen by the HHS Office on Women’s Health (OWH) using real-time data, analytics and performance improvement methodologies from Premier Inc. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Perinatal Improvement Collaborative, which is a large-scale, data-driven collaborative of 200+ leading hospitals caring for diverse populations in all 50 states. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on a variety of topics, including thromboembolic disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital is participating in the U.S. Fink was selected as a Women's Health Scholar and worked at the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women's Health. She then completed a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. She completed her combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
She received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Fink developed a passion for public health. Fink practiced at the Hospital for Special Surgery and New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University, where she served on the faculty and worked with women to attain optimal health, treated metabolic bone conditions, and improved patients' diabetes care prior to surgery.Īs a Georgetown University undergraduate focusing on health studies, Dr. Fink has presented at national meetings on polycystic ovary syndrome, the female athlete triad, and other bone-related conditions. Fink has done extensive research related to women's health, including evaluation of blood markers to assist in the diagnosis of hypothalamic amenorrhea and investigating the role of diabetes in women's skeletal health. She is a nationally certified menopause practitioner and an expert on estrogen.ĭr. Previously, her clinical practice focused on women from adolescence through menopause and beyond. She is board certified in endocrinology, internal medicine, and pediatrics, and is recognized as a physician leader on topics such as diabetes, nutrition, and bone health. Fink brings to OASH extensive experience treating women's health issues. Dorothy Fink, MD is an endocrinology, diabetes & metabolism specialist in New York, NY and has over 15 years of experience in the medical field. Department of Health and Human Services.ĭr. Dorothy Fink is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health and Director of the Office on Women's Health in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) at the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Healthĭr.
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