I am a native New Englander, having grown up in Massachusetts. I completed medical school and residency in Maine. My husband, two children, and I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2006 and have never looked back. For eight years, we lived in Sandpoint, a small rural town in northern Idaho, where I practiced general obstetrics/gynecology in a private practice. I then changed focus and became an obstetrics/gynecology hospitalist in Spokane, Washington, until we decided to make the move to the Vancouver/Portland area. I am so fortunate to be focusing on the part of my practice that I always enjoyed the most: caring for pregnant women and guiding them through their birth experiences.