Biography of Donnica Moore

Highly regarded as a women's health expert and advocate, Dr. Donnica Moore is a physician educator as well as a media commentator. She is perhaps most recognized for her role as the weekly medical contributor for the full run of NBC's "Later Today," where she discussed topics ranging from contraception to menopause, infertility to pregnancy, and headaches to heart disease. Prior to joining "Later Today," Moore was a frequent guest on NBC's "Weekend Today."

Founder and President of DrDonnica.com, a popular women's health information website launched in September 2000, Moore is also Founder and President of Sapphire Women's Health Group LLC, a multimedia women's health education and communications firm. She is a medical advisory board member for the Cosmetics Executive Women website CancerAndCareers.org, and most recently, she was selected as the women's health expert for Yahoo! Health. Additionally, she is a founding co-chair of the annual national Congress on Women's Health, now in its 10th year.

Active in organized medicine for over 15 years, Moore has served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Women's Association for the last seven years. She has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of the Society for Women's Health Research, the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Council on Women's Health, and Research!America, a national coalition of over 300 organizations and institutions committed to supporting biomedical research.

A popular speaker for both medical and consumer audiences on topics related to women's health, drug development, balancing work and family, and others, Moore is well known for her engaging and entertaining style which she refers to as "medicine lite": using humor as the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. She has addressed numerous women's fairs, employee groups, consumer, professional associations, and medical organizations.

Moore is also the founder of Princeton University's popular on-line discussion group, "Parent-Net," which deals with balancing work/family issues. As a dedicated, married mother of two school-age children, she is committed to supporting the issues of balancing work and family, raising healthy children, and particularly, educating girls about the importance of understanding, appreciating, nurturing, and respecting their bodies.

Moore's 40 professional publications focus on women's health and career issues. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Women's Health. She is also the "Doctor on Call" columnist for First for Women magazine, which has a circulation of 1 million. She has written articles for publications such as The Washington Post and Medical Tribune, in addition to her papers in medical journals. Articles discussing her work have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Business Week. Her numerous articles have covered women's health clinical and research issues, the drug discovery and development process, osteoporosis, cervical cancer screening, product liability, the impact of managed care on clinical research, media management of women's health, and disease management.

Moore has received more than 30 awards for her achievements in medicine and business, including the first "Alumnae Leadership Award" from Princeton University's Women's Center. In 2000, she was named "One of the Most Influential Forces in Healthcare Information Technology" by Advance for Healthcare Technology magazine. She is also the 1999 winner of the New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women's Connie Woodruff Award, which is awarded to "the woman who has best demonstrated a major commitment to women's issues and concerns."

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Moore graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a double major. Upon graduating, Dr. Moore won a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship at the University College of Dublin School of Medicine in Ireland, where she represented the United States as a goodwill ambassador while beginning her medical studies. She earned her medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. She undertook residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Temple University Hospital and in family medicine at Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, New Jersey.