Alisa Goldberg

Alisa Goldberg, MD, MPH received her BA degree from Case Western Reserve University, her MD degree from Harvard Medical School and completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston. She completed a Family Planning Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and received a Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of California, Berkeley. While at UCSF, she served as Medical Director of the Women’s Options Center at San Francisco General Hospital and as an NICHD Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Scholar. Upon returning to Boston, she founded and currently directs the Division of Family Planning and Complex Family Planning Fellowship program at BWH and similarly founded and directs the Department of Research at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts (PPLM). She has served on the Board of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and the Family Planning Fellowship Program and currently serves on the Board of the Society of Family Planning (SFP). Her research has focused on the use of mifepristone and misoprostol for abortion care, evaluating clinical interventions that can both improve the quality of abortion care and expand access, improving contraceptive utilization and developing new contraceptive methods. Mentoring bright young physicians who choose to dedicate their careers to this work brings her much professional joy. She was recently recognized with the 2019 Robert Hatcher Society of Family Planning Mentor Award.