Jeanne Mahoney is the Senior Director of ACOG's Provider’s Partnership, an initiative to enhance collaboration between women’s health care providers, public health and other national organizations.  In this capacity she directs the Alliance for Innovation in Maternal Health (AIM), and develops initiatives between ACOG members and partners on maternal and women’s health.  She came to ACOG from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Dr. Melissa Kottke is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  She completed a Fellowship in Family Planning and Contraception and is currently the Medical Director of the Teen Services Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital.  She is the Director of the Jane Fonda Center at Emory, which is involved in research and program development focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health. She also serves as the Medical Consultant for the State of Georgia’s Family Planning Program.  Current areas of research include sexuality education, Dual Protection, contraception for teens and immediate postpartum LARC.

Nikki Zite, MD

Dr. Zite graduated from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in 1998.  She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The University of Tennessee in Memphis between 1998 and 2002.  After residency she went on to The University of Illinois at Chicago where she obtained her Masters in Public Health during her Fellowship in Family Planning and Contraception.  Currently Dr. Zite is Professor and Residency Director in the OB/GYN department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Long acting Reversible Contraception (ACOG LARC) workgroup, the Post-Partum Contraceptive Access Initiative (PCAI) expert panel, and on an International Advisory Board whose purpose is to increase worldwide utilization of Intrauterine Contraception in order to decrease undesired pregnancy and empower women.  Dr. Zite is also the TIPQC Maternal Medical Director.

Dr. Sarah Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received her medical degree from the University of Miami. She then completed pediatric residency and neonatal medicine fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina, where she joined the Division of Neonatology faculty in 2005. Dr. Taylor’s research includes translational investigation into preterm infant growth and bone mineralization, health services research in breastfeeding, and exploration of issues in maternal milk production. She leads the SC Birth Outcomes Initiative Baby Friendly work group and the Safe Sleep Initiative. She also leads the SC Neonatal Nutrition Consortium. At the institutional level, she runs the Children’s Hospital Nutrition Therapy Committee and leads the neonatal nutrition quality improvement work. She started the Mother’s Milk Bank of SC in 2015 and continues to serve as medical director.