Staff
Anna received her undergraduate from Saint Micheal’s College, where she became a certified Advanced EMT. She worked on an ambulance for four years before working in a hospital emergency department. She attended UNC Gillings School of Public health, where her concentration was Leadership in Practice with a focus on Maternal and Child Health and Global Health. Anna is the IMPLICIT Network Manager and lead of the Data Review Committee.
Emily is the IMPLICIT Network’s Eastern PA Program Coordinator and leads the Scholarly Activity Committee. Emily is an MPH graduate from the University of Pennsylvania and is passionate about perinatal health and reproductive justice. Before joining IMPLICIT, Emily was a clinical research coordinator in the Maternal Fetal Medicine department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her other public health efforts include improving intimate partner violence (IPV) services for parents and supporting gender affirming care for youth.
Leadership Council
Purpose: To serve as a governing body for the IMPLICIT Network – An FMEC Collaborative, bring structure to the Network, represent the interests and concerns of participating Network sites, make strategic recommendations for the Network, develop and implement the Network’s strategic plan and future action steps.
Dr. Stacy Bartlett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and faculty at UPMC Shadyside Family Medicine Residency Program. She attended Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She directs wellbeing for the Department of Family Medicine. She serves as a primary investigator or an investigator for several NIH grants related to maternal health and has won several awards for her teaching and leadership. Her interests include women’s health, physician wellbeing, and medical education innovation. She serves as the co-PI and Western Pennsylvania Physician Lead for the IMPLICIT Network. In 2024, she was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to lead postpartum care model development for the Equity in Maternal and Birthing Outcomes and Reproductive Health through Community Engagement (EMBRACE) Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
Mario DeMarco, MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and the Director of Family Medicine Obstetrics in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. His clinical practice is at both the Penn Family Medicine Residency as well as a community FQHC where he provides prenatal and postpartum care. He continues to practice low and high risk obstetrics. He has helped to develop and expand a successful community based prenatal program to support maternity care services in marginalized neighborhoods adjacent to Penn. His academic work has centered around maternity care innovations that can be implemented and scaled in primary care settings. He has used his perspective in primary care to serve on the Pennsylvania Maternal Mortality Review Committee and to help shape research and policy implementation within the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He has been on the IMPLICIT Leadership Council since 2017 and also serves on the Scholarly Activity Committee.
Noopur Doshi, MD is a Family Medicine physician board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. She is an assistant professor of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Doshi works for the University of Pittsburgh Department of Family Medicine at University Family Medicine – Squirrel Hill. She is also faculty at UPMC McKeesport Family Medicine Residency and provides OB and postpartum inpatient care at Magee Women’s Hospital. Dr. Doshi serves as the IMPLICIT Physician Champion at UPMC McKeesport Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Doshi received her medical degree from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She completed her residency at UVA Family Medicine Residency in Charlottesville, Virginia where she served as a co-chief resident. Dr. Doshi’s clinical interests include women’s health, obstetrics, prenatal/postpartum care, lifestyle and obesity medicine, preventative care, and quality improvement. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. Dr. Doshi lives in Pittsburgh with her husband. In her free time, she loves to indulge in Bollywood music/movies, travel, create DIY crafts, and spend time with friends and family.
Dr. Narges Farahi is a family medicine physician and longtime champion for person-centered and family-centered care. Dr. Farahi is a Professor at UNC, where she served as the Director of the Family Medicine Perinatal and Child Health Program for ten years. Her heart is in community health, and her outpatient practice is at Prospect Hill Community Health Center, a rural federally qualified health center. Prior to her current role, Dr. Farahi served as the medical director of the NC Farmworker Health Program. Her clinical interests include providing seamless care for people with the capacity for pregnancy across the continuum of care, including before, between and after pregnancies. Dr. Farahi is committed to providing trauma-informed care, supporting people and families to meet their reproductive goals, and using quality improvement strategies to help health care practices and systems better meet the needs of patients and families. She has been a leader in implementing enhanced access to comprehensive contraception options and the IMPLICIT interconception care model in the primary care setting. Dr. Farahi works to integrate community engagement and implementation science to transform care with a focus on patients with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and polycystic ovary syndrome. Her goal is to center the voices of patients and families from marginalized communities and build partnerships with patients and communities to improve health.
Scott Hartman, MD attended Drexel University School of Medicine and completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Medical Center. He served with the National Health Service Corps on Chicago’s South Side, where he completed advanced training in Women’s Health and HIV Medicine. He subsequently served as a community health center physician and faculty at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He currently works for the Primary Care Network at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he is the Maternity Care Coordinator. He has served in numerous state and national leadership roles, including: Board of the NY State Academy of Family Physicians, Western-Central NY Human Rights Campaign Steering Committee, Board of the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee, and Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Health of the Public and Science. He currently serves on the Women’s Preventive Services Task Force, the women’s health correlate of the USPSTF.
Dr. Sarah Jones earned her medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in 2009 and completed her Pediatrics residency there in 2012. From 2012 to 2016, Dr. Jones practiced general pediatrics in the community before returning to UMMC to establish the Complex Care Clinic. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Complex Care Clinic and as the Medicine Medical Director for the Spina Bifida Clinic, while continuing to practice both complex care and general pediatrics. Since 2016, Dr. Jones has been actively involved with IMPLICIT, serving on the Leadership Council since 2021 and contributing as a member of the Data Review Committee. Her work is driven by a strong commitment to improving maternal and birthing-person health—as well as family well-being—within the pediatric setting, both in clinical practice and through policy advocacy.
Dr. Brianna Moyer is a graduate of Penn State College of Medicine and completed her residency at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Family Medicine Residency Program. After graduation, she joined the faculty at Lancaster General Health, where she currently practices full-spectrum family medicine, including inpatient medicine and OB. She is passionate about maternal/child health, narrative medicine, and the importance of the patient story in providing holistic, patient-centered care. She also has an interest in global health and coordinates the global health curriculum for the residency. Brianna serves as one of the IMPLICIT provider champions and collaborates with residents on continually improving the delivery of interconception and postpartum care. She has been a member of the IMPLICIT leadership council since 2022.
Dr. Aimee Smith is a board-certified Family Medicine physician and Clinical Informatics specialist. She serves as the Clinical Director of Maternal Health at the Institute for Family Health and is a core faculty member at the Mid-Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program in Kingston, NY. Dr. Smith provides full-spectrum care, including prenatal and postpartum services, and plays a central role in mentoring residents and medical students. Her academic and clinical interests include medical education, reproductive health, and data-driven quality improvement. She leads curriculum development on topics such as chronic disease management, maternal health, and EMR optimization. As a Clinical Informatics physician, she collaborates across departments to improve reporting, documentation workflows, and patient outcomes through data integration and systems redesign. Dr. Smith has been a member of the IMPLICIT Network since 2008, when she joined as a resident, and currently serves on both the Leadership Council (2017) and the Data Review Committee (2017).
