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Meet the Guests

Dr. Meera Shah
Dr. Natalie Hinchcliffe
During her time training in Iowa and the rural Midwest she became fully aware of the effect of stigma on the healthcare experiences of those in the LGBTQ community, and those seeking abortion services. As a result, she began training in abortion care, HIV, and gender affirmation hormone care during her third year of medical school through elective rotations. She applied only to family medicine programs that allowed her to continue her focus on comprehensive sexual health. During residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Natalie strengthened her skills as an advocate for her patients. At her residency clinic, a Federally Qualified Health Center in NYC, she saw firsthand benefitsof the affordable care act. Patients were able to get insurance, and thus healthcare, some of them for the first time in their lives.
Dr. Hinchcliffe left New York to provide comprehensive sexual health and education as family medicine faculty in Ohio. She completed the Leadership Training Academy Fellowship in Reproductive Health Advocacy with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
In Ohio, she educates residents and medical students, and provides HIV, LGBTQ, abortion care, and general primary care. She shares her passion for comprehensive sexual health, fighting stigma in medicine, and evidence based patient centered with through lobby work, representing resolutions and pushing for policy change at the stateand national level, contributing to online blogs, participating in interviews, presenting at national educational conferences, and various speaking engagements. Dr. Hinchcliffe encourages others to address stigmatized areas in medicine for the benefit of patient care.
