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33: The Truth About Fertility and Birth Control: A Conversation with Dr. Marguerite Duane
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Ep. 33 Sophia sits down with Dr. Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, FAAFP to discuss all things fertility! Dr. Duane is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Facts About Fertility.
In this conversation we dive into fertility, how the womens body works, the effects of birth control on a woman’s cycle, the different birth controls and how they differently affect our hormones, and so much more!
To learn more from Dr. Duane or to attend one of the webinars/events she mentioned visit: Factsaboutfertility.org
Dr. Duane is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS. A Board-certified family physician, she serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she directs an introductory course on natural or fertility awareness based methods (NFP/FABMs) of family planning. She is also a physician with Modern Mobile Medicine, a direct primary care (DPC) house calls-based practice serving patients of all ages in the D.C. metropolitan area. She has served on the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC).
Dr. Duane is trained as a Creighton Medical consultant and a TeenSTAR educator. She received her M.D. degree with recognition in primary care from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and completed her family medicine residency at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. She received a Bachelor of Science with Honors degree and a Master of Health Administration from Cornell University. She has published articles on the effectiveness of FABMs for family planning and the use of apps for tracking fertility. She has also developed and delivered multiple presentations on the use of FABMs for family planning and women’s health.
Marguerite balances her career as a teacher and family physician with her cherished role as a mother and wife. She is proud to be accompanied on this life’s journey by her husband and fellow family physician, Dr. Kenneth Lin, and they are delighted to be the parents of four young children.
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