Background
Poirier-Brode, Karen Yvonne was born on December 2, 1949 in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada. Daughter of Alphonse Joseph Wilfred Poirier and Stella Pochinco. came to the United States, 1973.
educator obstetrician-gynecologist
Poirier-Brode, Karen Yvonne was born on December 2, 1949 in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada. Daughter of Alphonse Joseph Wilfred Poirier and Stella Pochinco. came to the United States, 1973.
Bachelor of Science, McGill University, 1971; Doctor of Medicine, CM, McGill University, 1973.
Resident obstetrics-gynecology., University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, 1977; fellow in pediatrics adolescent obstetrics-gynecology., University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, 1979; director adolescent obstetrics-gynecology. clinic, University of California-Davis, Sacramento, 1977-1983; contract physician Sacramento Valley, Planned Parenthood, Sacramento, 1982-1990; contract physician Butte, Solano, Contra Costa, Napa Companies, Planned Parenthood, Chico, California, 1983-1985, 88-90; private practice, Valley Center for Women's Health, Sacramento, 1983-1990; private practice, Kaiser Permanente, Stockton, California, since 1990. Gynecology consultant Women's Clinic, Student Health Center, California State University, Sacramento, 1979-1982. Lecturer department obstetrics-gynecology University of California-Davis, Sacramento, 1981-1983, clinical instructor department obstetrics-gynecology., 1977-1981, assistant clinical professor department obstetrics-gynecology., 1983-1989, 89-96, associate clinical professor department obstetrics-gynecology., since 1996;speaker in field.
Staff member medical advising committee Planned Parenthood of Sacramento Valley, 1982-1991. Member Sacramento Comty. Actions Network for Teenage Parents, 1980-1990.
Member board medical advisors Turner's Syndrome Society of Sacramento, 1984-1986. Volunteer physician Womankind, 1983-1985. Chairperson Teenage Parents Comty.
Actions Network, 1980-1981. Fellow ACOG, Society Adolescent Medicine. Member American Medical Association, American Medical Women's Association (president local chairman Motherlode branch 1983), North America Society Pediat. and Adolescent Gynecology, American Association Gynecologic Laparoscopists, Physiciansfor Social Responsibility, Association Reproductive Health Professionals, California.Med.
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Married James William Brode, August 29, 1971 (divorced). Children: Christopher James Brode, Jeannette Michelle Brode (deceased). Married Joseph Charles Heffernan, April 1984 (divorced August 1971).
Children: Joseph Charles Heffernan Junior. Married CalvinEdward Barwick, August 26, 1989.