Dr. Sara Phillips
Oregon Health & Science University
Dr. Sara Phillips, MD MPH is a second year resident physician in Obstetrics & Gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR. A Hawai’i-born, PNW-transplant, Sara grew up in a medically-underserved, rural community on Kaua’i. She is an Indigenous scholar and disparities researcher focused on centering reproductive justice and health equity. She holds a BA in Indigenous Health and Biomedical Sciences from the University of British Columbia, an MPH from Harvard and an MD from the University of Washington. Sara plans a career as a clinician scientist, being a stalwart advocate for the health of underserved communities through mixed methods research, clinical practice, and public health interventions. Sara's research interests include understanding the population-level burden of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes within racial and ethnic minority populations, especially in the setting of infertility, sub-fertility, and use of assisted reproductive technologies. She is also interested in working towards increasing access to family building care in rural and underserved communities.