Directors and Faculty

Lynn Borgatta, MD, MPH

Director

Lynn Borgatta received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin , her M.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and her MPH from Columbia University . She completed her residency at St. Luke's-Womens Hospital in New York and is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology. She worked for Montefiore Hospital and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and then became the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Westchester, Rockland , and Putman Counties (NY). She came to Boston University in 1997. Since then, she has been responsible for expansion of the family planning and abortion services, and integration of nurse-clinicians and family medicine into all services. More recently, the Essure program was added to other outpatient procedures. Her research interests center around techniques of medical and surgical abortion, passage of trophoblastic cells and nucleotides to the woman during early pregnancy, and treatment of early pregnancy failure. She has continued her relationship with Planned Parenthood Federation of American and currently serves on the National Medical Committee. She is a co-editor, along with Dr. Stubblefield, of A Clinician's Guide to Medical and Surgical Abortion.

 

Phillip G. Stubblefield, M.D.

Co-Director

Dr. Stubblefield came to Boston from Kansas to be educated and graduated from Harvard College in 1962 and the Medical School in 1966. He did a surgical internship at the University of Michigan Hospital and then served as a U.S. Public Health Service Officer assigned to the Peace Corps until returning to Harvard in 1970 for residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Hospital for Women. After residency he worked 2 years at the Preterm Reproductive Health Clinic in Brookline , then joined Dr. Kenneth Ryan's faculty at Boston Hospital for Women, where he directed one of the first U.S. hospital units organized to provide abortion services. He subsequently practiced at the Massachusetts General Hospital , and then became Chief of Ob/Gyn at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge , Mass. In 1988 he moved to Portland Maine as Chief of Ob/Gyn at Maine Medical Center , and then returned to Boston in 1994 to become Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University . Since 2004 he has continued at BMC as Professor of Ob/Gyn and Associate Director of the Fellowship in Family Planning . Abiding interests through his career have included the problem of preterm birth, and the role of fertility control in the health of women. He is author of more than 150 articles and textbook chapters, many of them on contraception. Dr. Stubblefield and his wife Linda have three grown children and one beautiful granddaughter.

 

Nilda Moreno, MD , MPH

Dr. Moreno received her M.D. from the University of Puerto Rico , and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Puerto Rico . She completed her Fellowship in Family Planning at Boston University in 2007. Her duties now include medical and surgical family planning services at Boston Medical Center with the fellowship, and general obstetrics and gynecology at Boston Medical Center and at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center . She is also the Associate Medical Director at Four Women, Inc. a free-standing family planning and abortion center south of Boston .

 

Sacheen Carr-Ellis, MD, MPH

Dr. Carr-Ellis received her medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York State. She completed residency training at New York Medical College at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City. She has completed a Family Planning Fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and is now the medical director in the Division of Family Planning. Currently Dr. Carr-Ellis works at Planned Parenthood of League of Massachusetts and is an executive board member of the Abortion Access Projected based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her areas of interest are family planning, health care policy, medical education and women with disabilities.

 

Research and Clinical Interests of Directors:

• Preterm birth and prevention
• Fertility and women's health
• Techniques of surgical abortion
• Early medical abortion and treatment of pregnancy failure
• Technique of labor induction abortion
• Basic science: fetal cell transfer in early pregnancy
• On-contraceptive benefits of contraceptives
• Attitudes of women of different ethnic groups toward contraceptive use

 

Current Faculty Research Projects:

• Relationship between obesity and medical abortion outcome
• Trends of repeat abortion rates
• IUD use after medical abortion
• Clinical trial of Mirena use for menorrhagia
• Transport of fetal cells in women's serum after abortion
• Trends in post-partum sterilization: delayed post-partum sterilization and use of Essure
• Effect of expanded prenatal education of sterilization utilization
• Clinical trial of the use of mifepristone prior to induction abortion
• Clinical trial of priming prior to induction abortion
• Use and recall of contraceptive provision prior to abortion

 

Clinical Training Sites:

• Boston Medical Center
• Doctor's Office Building offices
  Within the Boston University campus but separated from the main clinic area, this office has a different referral pattern, and is the site of contraceptive trials.
• Commonwealth Avenue offices
  This is a multidisciplinary office building, owned by Boston University, is sited at the main campus of Boston University, about 2 miles from the medical campus. This office attracts referrals for complex contraceptive evaluation and is also a site for contraceptive research.
• Women's Health Services
  Off-site office provides additional training in late second-trimester surgical procedures.