How to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes for Black Women: Dr. Amanda P. Williams' Perspective

In today's episode of the When the Moment Chooses You podcast, Coach Charlene sits down with Dr. Amanda Williams to discuss the maternal health crisis and its impact on black birthing people. Dr. Amanda is the Medical Director of Mahmee, a pregnancy wraparound services company, an Adjunct Faculty at Stanford, and a Clinical Innovations Advisor for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative. During their conversation, they touch on the importance of always bringing someone with you when interacting with the healthcare system, the need for diversity in the workforce, and the significance of slowing down and listening to your patients. Dr. Amanda also shares her journey of leaving her secure job to address the maternal health crisis and encourages others to take risks while having a plan B. This conversation is eye-opening and informative, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you for tuning in! Dr. Amanda P. Williams's Bio: Dr. Amanda P. Williams, MD, MPH, FACOG is the Medical Director at Mahmee, a maternal healthcare company dedicated to improving health equity and empowering all families with wraparound care during the pregnancy and postpartum period. In this role, she oversees the company’s clinical programming to better support mothers and birthing people, while fostering institutional partnerships with academic medical centers, health systems, and payors.  Dr. Williams also acts as the Clinical Innovation Advisor to the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) and serves as an adjunct faculty in the OBGYN Department at Stanford University School of Medicine. Prior to joining Mahmee, Dr. Williams worked at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center where she served as Director of Maternity Services. Additionally, she oversaw the maternity continuum for the Chiefs of OBGYN across Kaiser’s 15 medical centers in Northern California. She has also served on several state and national committees, such as the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review committee and the National Quality Forum Maternal Morbidity and Mortality work group.  Dr. Williams is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, MA where she majored in American Medical History and Biochemistry. She completed her medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA where she also received a master’s degree in public health, focusing on health policy and management. She completed her graduate medical training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of California, San Francisco. ABOUT WHEN THE MOMENT CHOOSES YOU PODCAST: Coach Charlene’s purpose is to bring transformation by creating and inspiring destiny moments because every heartbeat matters... When the Moment chooses you podcast engages in compassionate courageous conversations with some of the most daring trailblazers and change agents in organizations, corporations and the world who dared to respond to those destiny moments. Listen to new episodes bi-weekly on Sundays anywhere you get your podcasts. You will move from thinking and talking about your dreams….to manifesting the desires of your heart….Be inspired to become the highest expression of yourself. Listen to new episodes bi-weekly on Sundays anywhere you get your podcasts. Follow the podcast on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/whenthemomentchoosesyou and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/whenthemomentchoosesyou/. Visit Coach Charlene's website at https://coachcharlene.com/.