Each year, PRH honors extraordinary abortion providers and physician advocates who have made an impact in their communities and on healthcare regionally or nationally through the compassionate care they provide and their leadership in advocating for sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice.
How are Award recipients selected? A committee of active and retired abortion providers and physician advocates from across the country select the respective recipients of the Tiller Advocacy and Rashbaum Leadership Awards. See this year’s awards selection committe below:
Deborah Bartz, MD, MPH: Ob/Gyn, Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School
Michael Belmonte, MD: Ob/Gyn and Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Penn State College of Medicine
Kristyn Brandi, Committee Co-Chair, MD, MPH, FACOG: Selection Committee Chair, Ob/Gyn and Family Planning Subspecialist, Private Practice in NJ, Former Board Chair of PRH
Amy Bryant MD, MSCR: Ob/Gyn and Associate Professor and Director of the Complex Family Planning Division at University of North Carolina Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Shannon Carr, MD: Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Health Specialist at Shannon L. Carr, MD MS LLC
Caitlin Fiss, MD: Ob/Gyn, Private Practice in NY, Board Member of PRH
Bhavik Kumar, MD, MPH :Family Physician, Medical Director for Primary and Trans Care, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
April Lockley, DO: Family Physician, Medical Director of the Miscarriage and Abortion (M+A) Hotline and Public Health Solutions
Rachel Masch, MD, MPH: Ob/Gyn, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chioma Ndubisi, MD: Ob/Gyn, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perlman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Perriera, MD, MPH: Ob/Gyn, Chief Medical Director, The Women Centers, former Selection Committee Chair
Suzanne Poppema, MD: Family Physician, Retired, former PRH Board Chair
Ann Schutt-Aine, MD: Ob/Gyn, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast
Meera Shah, MD, MA, MPH: Family Physician, Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic
DeShawn Taylor, MD, Ob/Gyn, Founder and CEO, Desert Star Institute for Family Planning
Suji Uhm, MD: Ob/Gyn, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Magee-Womens Hospital
Nisha Verma, Committee Co-Chair, MD, MPH, FACOG: Ob/Gyn, Assistant Professor, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Sanithia Williams, MD, FACOG: Ob/Gyn, Physician, Alabama Women’s Wellness Center
Leilah Zahedi-Spun, MD: Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Department of Ob-Gyn Divisions of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Complex Family Planning