Donnica L. Moore

Dr. Donnica Moore is highly regarded as a women's health expert and advocate, physician educator, and as a media commentator. She is Founder and President of Sapphire Women’s Health Group LLC, a multimedia women’s health education and communications firm, as well as www.DrDonnica.com, a popular women’s health information website with over five million hits a month.

Best known as “Dr. Donnica,” she has appeared in 500 television and more than 200 radio interviews on various women’s health and general medical topics. Previously, the women’s health contributor for NBC’s Later Today, she has also been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News and hosted the nationally syndicated radio spot, “Dr. Donnica’s Women’s Health Report.”

A popular speaker for both medical and consumer audiences on topics related to women's health, drug development, balancing work and family, she 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.

Dr. Moore has written more than 120 articles focusing on women's health and career issues that have covered clinical and research issues, 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. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Women's Health and is the “Doctor on Call” columnist for First for Women magazine.

On the Internet, Dr. Moore has been the women’s health expert for YahooHealth.com since 2003 and is a medical advisory board member for the Cosmetics Executive Women website www.CancerAndCareers.com. She is also Founder of Princeton University’s Alumni on-line discussion group Parent-Net which deals with balancing work/family issues.

Dr. Moore has received more than 30 awards for her achievements in medicine and business, most recently the first “Alumnae Leadership Award” from Princeton University’s Women’s Center. In 2000, Dr. Moore was named “One of the Most Influential Forces in Healthcare Information Technology” by Advance for Healthcare Technology magazine. She is the winner of the 1999 New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women’s Connie Woodruff Award for “the woman who has best demonstrated a major commitment to women’s issues and concerns” and the American Medical Women’s Association Calcium Education Nutrition Award for “the woman physician who has done the most to advance osteoporosis education.”

Dr. Moore has been active in organized medicine for over 20 years. For seven years she served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Women’s Association. She has also been a member of the Boards of Directors of the Society for Women's Health Research and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Moore was a founding member and first co-chair of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Corporate Advisory Board; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on Women's Health; and a member of the Board of Directors of Research!America, a national coalition of over 300 organizations and institutions committed to supporting biomedical research.

Dr. Moore's interest in women's health research began as a member of the eighth class of women at Princeton University, where she wrote the senior honors thesis "Elective Hysterectomy and the Unnecessary Surgery Debate." She graduated cum laude from Princeton and won a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship in Ireland. She earned her medical degree from the State University of New York School of Medicine at Buffalo, where she conducted research in athlete's amenorrhea, breast cancer rehabilitation, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and endometriosis.