Medical Experts

Tamandra Morgan, MD, ScM

Affiliation: University of California San Francisco Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Tamandra Morgan, MD, ScM is a chief resident at the University of California San Francisco OBGYN training program. She will be the inaugural Breast Surgery and Cancer Prevention fellow at UCSF in 2023. 

Dr. Morgan earned her medical degree from the University of Chicago. She completed a Masters degree in genetic counseling at The Johns Hopkins/National Institutes of Health, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University where she majored in Human Biology with a focus on hereditary diseases and cancer. 

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FESC

Areas of expertise: Women’s cardiovascular health

Affiliation: Author, Saving Women’s Hearts; President of the American Society of Preventive Cardiology; Director, Preventive Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute

Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FESC is the president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology. She is the author of the best-seller, Saving Women’s Hearts. She recently joined the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute as a professor of cardiology and is the associate director and director of prevention for the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center. She is the Anita Dann Friedman Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Medicine and Research.

Dr. Gulati completed medical school at the University of Toronto, Canada.  She completed her internship, residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago.  She received a Masters in Science at the University of Chicago and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology.  She is board certified in cardiovascular disease.

Bhavik Kumar, MD, MPH

Areas of expertise: Contraception and family planning, abortion, trans care

Bhavik Kumar, MD, MPH (he/him) is a board-certified family medicine physician.

He has been a reproductive healthcare provider in Texas since 2015. He completed medical school at Texas Tech University HSC, residency training at Montefiore Medical Center, and a Fellowship in Family Planning at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, NY.

Stephanie Tillman, CNM, FACNM

Areas of expertise: Contraception and family planning, midwifery, healthcare ethics, queer health

Stephanie Tillman, CNM, FACNM (she/her) is a Chicago-based midwife and writer. Stephanie's public scholarship on trauma-informed care, informed consent, abortion, and patient empowerment models has been featured in Ms. Magazine, Elle, ReWire, Teen Vogue and The New York Times. Stephanie’s leadership includes Chairing the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) Ethics Committee, serving on the Board of Directors for the Midwest Access Project (MAP), and participating as an Advisory Committee member of the Queer and Transgender Midwives Association (QTMA). Social media : Instagram and Twitter.

Jiana Menendez, MD, MPH

Areas of expertise: Contraception and family planning, abortion

Affiliations: Reproductive Health Access Project & Physicians for Reproductive Health

Jiana Menendez, MD, MPH is a family medicine physician whose practice is focused on sexual health, including contraception, abortion, gender-affirming and trauma-informed health care for adolescents and adults. She is based in New York City, where she works at both Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and in a primary care practice. She currently sits on the Women’s Reproductive Health Project Advisory Group to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and serves as Chair of the Advocacy Commission for the New York State Academy of Family Physicians.

A. Mark Fendrick, MD

Areas of expertise: health care costs, insurance coverage

Affiliations: University of Michigan

Dr. A. Mark Fendrick is a professor of Internal Medicine and of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan. Dr. Fendrick conceptualized and coined the term Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) and currently directs the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, the leading advocate for development, implementation and evaluation of innovative health benefit plans. His research focuses on how clinician payment and consumer engagement initiatives impact access to care, quality of care, and health care costs.

Dr. Fendrick received a bachelor’s degree in economics and chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.

Tracey A. Wilkinson, MD, MPH

Areas of expertise: pediatrics, reproductive health care access

Affiliations: Indiana University School of Medicine

Dr. Tracey Wilkinson is an associate professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine.  Her work focuses on reproductive health care access with a focus on adolescents and young adults in particular. She attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, residency at Brown and fellowship at Boston University. She lived in Los Angeles for three years and worked at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and moved to Indiana University in 2015. Her fellowship research was cited in the federal court case that removed age restrictions for emergency contraception access nationally, and she has served as an expert in efforts to get an oral contraceptive pill approved over the counter. Current projects include the PATH4YOU program, which provides free access to all forms of birth control in Indiana, and IN Control, a birth control navigator program for young people. She is an advocate for reproductive health — both locally in Indiana and nationally — and is passionate about linking policy to evidence to improve public health.