Stacy Bartlett, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; PI: IMPLICIT 

Dr. Stacy Bartlett is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Pitt School of Medicine and Faculty at the UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Bartlett’s research interest is in improving the postpartum and interconception care of women and birthing persons. Her particular focus is on developing and implementing innovative delivery of care models to reduce the racial disparity in maternal morbidity and mortality. Following the American College of Gynecology’s 2018 call for a re-design of postpartum care, Dr. Bartlett has worked to implement a “4th Trimester” model of care at the Shadyside Family Health Center in Pittsburgh. This initiative has now expanded to 12 pilot sites across the eastern United States. Additionally, Dr. Bartlett is the Western Pennsylvania (PA) Physician Leader for the IMPLICIT Network in which she oversees the implementation and continuous improvement of the Interconception Care model at thirteen family medicine residency practices and the 4th Trimester model at seven family medicine residency practices in Western Pennsylvania (PA). 

Cynthia Salter, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health 

Dr. Cynthia Salter is Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and the Director (Interim) of the Pitt Center for Global Health and Director of Faculty Development and Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Shadyside Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Salter’s area of expertise is the application of innovative mixed methods and qualitative ethnographic approaches to explore the contextual determinants and systems factors affecting the health of birthing people. Her applied community work focuses on the effects of doula services in mediating birth outcomes, particularly in the context of racial inequities. Dr. Salter has previously directed the Birth Circle Community-Based Doula Program, a grass-roots non-profit working to improve birth outcomes in the Pittsburgh area. She served as PI when the program was awarded one of six multi-year grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to develop community-based doula services and to train community-based doulas. Currently, Dr. Salter is a Co-I on an NINR R01 (MPI: Méndez/Jarlenski) studying the effects of Medicaid policy interventions on racial equity in severe maternal morbidity where she will co-lead, with MPI Méndez, qualitative data collection and analysis.