Faculty

Brittany Booth, MD, MPH is a board-certified, UCLA-trained adult psychiatrist with a special focus on treating people during reproductive transitions such as pregnancy and postpartum. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Boston University and her medical degree from UCLA. She also completed her psychiatry residency at UCLA, where she served as Chief Resident of the inpatient units and Chief Resident of the Women’s Life Center, a world-renowned center for reproductive psychiatry. She has a private practice in which she primarily treats women undergoing reproductive transitions. In addition to her private practice, she is the associate director of the Women’s Life Center and see patients in the UCLA Maternal Mental Health Intensive Outpatient Program. In her spare time, she enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends, reading, baking, exploring new restaurants, watching movies, and seeing as many musicals as she can. 

Meghan Constantino, CNM, RN, MSN is a practicing nurse midwife at Community Health Center Inc. She received her Bachelor's in Human Biology at Stanford University and her Master's in Science of Nursing at Yale University School of Nursing. She has worked as Clinical Faculty at Yale School of Nursing, in private practice and most recently at Community Health Center Inc since 2017. She is a guest lecturer for programs at Fairfield University, Yale School of Nursing and Frank H Netter School of Medicine. She is a lecturer for Project Echo Complex Care Management, Advanced Primary Care ECHO and a faculty preceptor and lecturer for Community Health Center Inc’s Family Nurse Practitioner Residency Program. She has a special interest in both education and perinatal bereavement.

Daisy Goodman, DNP, MPH, CNM, CARN-AP, is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Geisel School of Medicine, a practicing nurse midwife and Certified Advanced Practice Addiction Nurse with 20 years of frontline engagement in the care of pregnancies complicated by drug and alcohol use. She completed her midwifery certification at Frontier Nursing University, Masters in Public Health at the Dartmouth Institute, and Doctorate in Nursing at the MGH Institute for Health Professions. Since joining Dartmouth-Health in 2013, Dr. Goodman has worked to build a comprehensive system of care for pregnant and parenting people with substance use disorders, including the development of related curriculum for Ob/Gyn residents. She currently supervises a resident run clinic providing recovery-centered obstetric care in the Ob/Gyn Department, and leads two HRSA funded initiatives, one focused on improving access to high quality reproductive health care for people with SUD, and the second addressing the issue of dwindling maternity care access in rural northern New Hampshire.

Robert P. Griggs, Jr., MD is a Board-Certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist with over thirty years of clinical experience in private practice and academic medicine. He pursued his undergraduate studies at Cornell University and graduated from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine. While in private practice Dr. Griggs engaged in the delivery of low-risk and high-risk pregnancies, was credentialed and performed both major and minor abdominal and laparoscopic procedures, and held clinical and teaching privileges at four area hospitals. Dr. Griggs currently serves as Director of Obstetrics and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Nu Health Medical Center in East Meadow, New York, where he is actively engaged in the training and education of Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Providers, and medical students, and residents. Dr. Griggs has a special interest in obstetrical and gynecological Ultrasound. Dr. Griggs is a former Initial Clinical Experience (ICE) Preceptor, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University. He also serves as Honorary Police Surgeon for the Nassau Sheriffs Department, New York City Police Department, and the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association.

Becca Tavernier, PhD, LP, PMH-C is a licensed clinical health psychologist with 12+ years of experience developing and implementing treatment approaches to improve maternal and child health. She currently works as a Senior Research Scientist at the Weitzman Institute where her program of research incorporates mixed methods and centers social determinants of health and primary care innovation. She has subject matter expertise in multiple areas of public health significance, including smoking, obesity, mental health, translational science, and maternal and child health disparities. Dr. Tavernier also holds specialty certification in perinatal mental health and is the sole owner of a private practice where she works with clients experiencing perinatal mental health concerns and fertility challenges.

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