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feedback. Please take a few minutes, less than five minutes, to fill out the feedback form. You can find a link in this episode's description and on our website. Looking forward to hearing from you and have you listening. Welcome back, clinical problem solvers. I'm so excited for this WDX episode with our boss lady, Simone, and Dr. Kirsten Ostad.

Thanks, Lindsay. I'm so excited to be here as well. And I'm especially excited to introduce

our guest, Dr. Kirsten Ostad. Kirsten is an assistant professor of family medicine

at Boston University School of Medicine and a hospitalist at Boston Medical Center.

She earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and then completed her residency in family medicine at Boston Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School

and then completed her residency in family medicine

at Boston Medical Center.

Following residency, she completed a research fellowship

at Bergenman Women's Hospital and Global Women's Health

and earned a master's in public health from the Harvard

T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Her research focuses on global implementation science aimed at improving

the delivery of women's health care in low resource settings, including respectful maternity care

and family planning. In addition to global health research, she also has extensive experience

in program development, having spent six years as the director of women's health for Maya Health Alliance,

a nonprofit providing care to indigenous Maya

patients in Guatemala, where she trained and supervised a team over 20 nurses and doctors

to improve community-based patient-centered women's health care. Clinically, she currently

works at Boston Medical Center, where she is a hospitalist and the medical director of the

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