Kavita Shah Arora, MD, MBE, MS

Minerva Angelica Romero Arenas, MD, MPH, FACS

Division Director and Associate Professor
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Dr. Arora is the division director for general obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Arora received her BS with a minor in Philosophy from the Pennsylvania State University. In 2009, she graduated with both an MD from Jefferson Medical College and a Master's Degree in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. She then completed a Master's in Science of Clinical Research at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Arora is the Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics for the National Academy of Medicine. She currently serves on the Governing Council for the Young Physicians Section of the American Medical Association. She serves as the Chair of the national ethics committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She has served on the national ethics committee of the American Medical Association and the Board of the American Society for the Bioethics and Humanities. Her clinical, research, and education interests center around reproductive justice and ensuring evidence-based and equitable reproductive health policy, with a focus on sterilization disparities. She has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications and has been funded by the Society for Family Planning, HRSA, and the NIH.

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