WEBINAR: Meet The Women

Meet the amazing women that are going to be highlighted in our upcoming webinar Women in Medicine! Register on the events page of this site before the event on February 13th at 2:30 pm. These profiles are provided by The Talent Pool.

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Shelia M. Bhatia, MD

Site Chief, Adult and Family Medicine, Kaiser San Leandro

• Takes care of adult patients

• Is a Physician Leader of her group

• Takes care of the Peer Review cases from her department

• BAS in Political Science + Biology from Stanford, then Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, with a residency in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.

Ellie Griffinger, CNM

Co-Founder, Golden Oak Midwives

• Holds a private practice as a midwife, delivering babies at Alta Bates Hospital

• Always down to talk about women's health issues/pregnancy

• Focused on supporting women in achieving empowered, informed birth experiences, while fostering relationships built on mutual trust.

Rebecca Spies, MD

Medical Director of Cytopathology, Staff Pathologist

• Private practice pathologist with training in Cytopathology

• Double major in Biology and Philosophy as an undergraduate at Villanova University, then obtained a masters degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

• Would encourage anyone thinking about medical school to spend time with physicians in the fields to see what different practice settings can be like - the good and the bad!

Leila Hebshi, MD

Staff Anesthesiologist, Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

• Provides care for patients undergoing many different kinds of surgeries at Kaiser Oakland and Richmond Medical Centers

• Co-Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee

• Attended medical school in Ireland

• Pivoted to Medicine after pursuing a career in Biochemistry

Rachel Kuperman, MD

CEO of Eysz, Inc

• Entrepreneur

• Started a company to improve the lives of people with epilepsy using innovated eye tracking technology.

• Received an undergraduate degree in physics at UCSD, then went to medical school at UCSF and did neurology training at Columbia

• Believes a college path in Physics and Chemistry allows for flexibility in the future.