University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Megan Lacy Young, MPH is Manager for Quality Improvement and Process Review for the Women and Infants Center of Excellence at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, where she works alongside clinicians to ensure optimal outcomes and experiences for all birthing persons and their families. Megan enjoys working with multidisciplinary perspectives and finding ways to share QI experiences with other institutions. Current projects Megan manages include IPP LARC; access to sterilization during delivery hospitalization; Medicaid ASH consent forms; severe maternal hypertension; postpartum hemorrhage; TeamBirth; nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex primary cesarean birth reduction; VBAC promotion; perinatal mood disorders; NAS/NOWS; breastfeeding with OUD; optimal cord clamping; postpartum VTE prophylaxis; Episodes of Care.
Prior to this role, Megan was the Tennessee State LARC Champion, where she worked to expand access to immediate postpartum LARC across the state and helped facilities find solutions to the numerous barriers that occur during program implementation. Megan continues this work with her main area of research focus on access to contraception, the roles of social determinants of health and vulnerability, and their impact on short-interval birth.