Renowned Health Expert Dr. Donnica Moore, Spokesperson and Advocate for the Whittemore Peterson Institute.
Dr. Donnica Moore is highly regarded as a women's health expert and advocate. She is founder & President of Sapphire Women’s Health Group and DrDonnica.com, a popular women’s health information website. Best known as “Dr. Donnica”, she has appeared in more than 650 television interviews on health topics. Currently, Dr. Donnica appears weekly on ABC’s “Good Morning America Health” in addition to other frequent guest appearances.
Dr. Moore is a passionate advocate for women’s health issues and medical research in general, but she is particularly committed to advocacy for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). This interest was originally motivated by the disproportionate occurrence of CFS/ME in women and too many of these women were treated dismissively or patronizingly by doctors unfamiliar with this condition. Ironically, both her husband and her 16 year old son Brian have since been diagnosed with CFS/ME. Brian has served as the national pediatric spokesperson for the Chronic Fatigue and Immune Deficiency Syndrome (CFIDS) Association and is currently a Youth Trustee for the New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association. Dr. Moore has served as a trustee of the New Jersey Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Association (NJCFSA) and has written several articles about CFS/ME in women and in children. She has also covered CFS/ME in several television & other media interviews as well as in her comprehensive book, Women’s Health for Life (DK 2009).
Dr. Moore is a past member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Women's Health and the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association (JAMWA). She has been the “Doctor on Call” columnist for First for Women magazine (circ. 1 million) since 2002. She has received more than 30 awards for her achievements in medicine and business including the Women in Government Presidential Achievement Award (2008) for her efforts to raise awareness about cervical cancer prevention; “Woman of the Year” (2002) for the Women’s Health and Counseling Center (Somerset County, NJ); the first “Alumnae Leadership Award” (2001) from Princeton University’s Women’s Center; the New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women’s Connie Woodruff Award (for “the woman who has best demonstrated a major commitment to women’s issues and concerns”); the Soroptomist Woman of Distinction Award (for her continued contributions to women’s health research); and the American Medical Women’s Association Calcium Education Nutrition Award (for the woman physician who has done the most to advance osteoporosis education). Her involvement in organized medicine includes having served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Women’s Association, the Society for Women's Health Research, and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Moore was a founding member and first co-chair of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Corporate Advisory Board; a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Council on Women's Health; and a member of the Board of Directors of Research!America, a national coalition of over 300 organizations and institutions committed to supporting biomedical research.
Dr. Moore is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University. She earned her medical degree from the State University of New York School of Medicine at Buffalo and undertook residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Temple University. This was followed by additional training in family medicine at Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, NJ. She subsequently spent 7 years as a medical director at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis) in medical affairs, Phase IV clinical research, medical operations, medical education & medical communications.
