Background
She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1933.
She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1933.
In 1971 Storch graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Soon after graduating she moved to New York, where she went on to practice medicine. Storch insisted her patients partake in more decisions when it came to their health. She became the director of the Adolescent Gynecology and Family planning clinic at Saint Luke"s–Roosevelt Hospital Center.
She was a strong advocate to women being able to choose the type of birth control they wanted or pain medication to use during child birth.
At the clinic, she provided treatment and information on sexually transmitted diseases to tens of thousands of disadvantaged teens. In 1987 Storch went into to practice with Doctor Shelley Kotln in lower 5th avenue, New York, later relocating to SoHo, an underdeveloped neighborhood.
By 1989 Storch decided to retire from her practice and pursue to spread the word about women's health practices. Storch became the head of Obstetrics and gynaecology news for the Medical News Network.
As a television and radio producer she created programming geared towards family physicians and the Lifetime medical network.
Before her death from ovarian cancer, Doctor Storch wished to establish a scholarship fund through the Center for Reproductive Science. She wanted to encourage undergraduate women to study the basic physiology and biochemistry of the ovary. According to Northwest, with contributions received, the Congressional Research Service established a scholarship fund in her name.
Storch died of ovarian cancer.