Professional Information
- Profession
- Physician
- Degree
- MD
- Specialty/Area of Focus
- Maternal / Fetal Medicine
- Bio
- Pamela R. Yoder, MD, PhD, FACOG, is actively helping both consumers and healthcare providers use the Internet to assess health risks, promote wellness, guide self-care, and learn about disease. She is involved in electronic media as the women's health editor of WebMD, creating, selecting, and presenting authoritative health and wellness information that patients and their caregivers can trust. Yoder's stories are among the most highly read of any health stories on the Internet.
A fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Yoder is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and maternal-fetal medicine specialist and also a licensed psychologist. She was an honors student during her years at the University of Illinois, where she earned her BS with honors and her medical degree while at the college of medicine in Chicago. Yoder went to the University of Kansas to complete an internship in clinical psychology and a PhD in child and developmental psychology, and she was a resident in obstetrics and gynecology for four years at the Ohio State University Hospitals. After that she went to California for specialty training in pregnancy complications, studying perinatal biology at Loma Linda University Medical Center and completing her fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Southern California/Los Angeles County Medical Center. As a lifelong student, she has studied computing, economics, and business over the past three years.
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- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Schools
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University of Illinois: 1994-2012
Faculty, Graduate Student, Honors Medical Student, Honors Undergraduate
Activities and Societies: James Scholar honors undergraduate and medical student, BS at UIUC and MD at UIC College of Medicine. Graduation with Honors; Psi Chi, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa.
University of Southern California: 1986-1987
MD
MedicineLAC + USC Medical Center had one of the largest complicated delivery services in North America. Teaching and training there plus working in the cutting-edge research labs at Loma Linda University Medical Center and VA created one of the best Maternal-Feta
- Site Groups
- ObGyn Physician, Surgeon, Psychologist, Physician, Doctor, PhD
