MAHA Institute Round Table on
Women’s Health & Fertility
Newsmakers Hour
Debra Sheldon
Vice President, MAHA Institute
Emma Waters
Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation
https://www.heritage.org/staff/emma-waters
Sara Brenner
Principal Deputy Commissioner, FDA
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/sara-brenner
Sarah E. Hill
Hormone Health Researcher & Author, This is Your Brain on Birth Control
Dr. Stuart Fischbein
Midwifery-Aligned OB/GYN, Global Birth Educator & Co-Host of Birthing Instincts
https://www.birthinginstincts.com/
Grace Emily Stark
Editor-in-Chief at Natural Womanhood; Fertility Awareness Advocate & Instructor
Dr. Kim Connolly-Couri
Board-Certified Family Physician & NaPro Medical Consultant
https://cshealthforlife.com/about-us/
Maureen Ferguson
Founder, Siena Consulting
Maureen Ferguson is the founder and principal of Siena Consulting, a government relations and strategic consulting firm based in Washington, DC. She is a widely published writer, speaker, and strategic advisor on a variety of cultural, policy, and family issues.
https://www.uscirf.gov/about-uscirf/commissioners/maureen-ferguson
Panel 1: Body Literacy + FemTech
Moderator: Emma Waters, The Heritage Foundation
Laura Delano (Author, Unshrunk and Founder, Inner Compass Initiative)
Laura Delano is the founder of Inner Compass and a leading voice in the global movement away from the medicalized mental health system. After 13 years on 19 psychiatric drugs and being labeled “treatment-resistant,” she began questioning whether her suffering was caused by the treatment itself—and ultimately healed by leaving behind the diagnoses and medications. Now a writer, speaker, and consultant, she supports others on their psychiatric withdrawal and recovery journeys; more at her website or in her memoir, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance.
Sarah E. Hill (Hormone Health Researcher & Author)
Dr. Sarah E. Hill is an award-winning researcher and professor, as well as a sought-after speaker, consultant, and media expert. Sarah has also authored two paradigm-shattering books that uncover the hidden truths about women’s sex hormones, including This is Your Brain on Birth Control and The Period Brain, which is coming out in September 2025. Sarah’s groundbreaking research has resulted in 100+ research publications and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Economist, and on television shows like Good Morning and Today.
Instagram- @sarahehillphd
Katie Vidmar (Body Literacy & Fertility Awareness Educator; Director at Natural Womanhood)
Katie E. Vidmar, MTS is a Body Literacy and Fertility Awareness educator who created Elevate, a root-cause training program that helps healthcare professionals address menstrual-health disparities in underserved communities. As Director of Programs for Natural Womanhood and founder of the forthcoming Body Literacy Project, she champions nationwide access to cycle-informed education for every young person.
Contact: Katie@KatieVidmar.com
Resources from Vidmar Consulting, LLC
- Elevate Training One-Pager
- The Body Literacy Project Curriculum Sample
- Body Literacy Flip Chart + Script for Clinical Practice (sample)
Resources from Natural Womanhood
- Period Genius - a Mother-Daughter Body Literacy Program for pre-teens
- Cycle Mindfulness Clubs - increasing Reproductive Health Self-Efficacy through Women's Circles + Cycle Charting
Teresa Kenney (Nurse Practitioner, Author & Co-Host of The Hormone Genius Podcast)
Teresa Kenney, WHNP, MC, is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and certified Naprotechnology Medical Consultant at Sancta Familia Medical in Omaha, NE. She specializes in working cooperatively with a woman’s natural cycle to treat root causes of health issues and restore quality of life through holistic care. She is the author of The Happy Girl's Guide to Being Whole: What You Never Knew About Your Natural Body and co-host of The Hormone Genius Podcast.
Clare Morell (Fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center; Author,The Tech Exit)
Clare Morell is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she focuses on protecting children from the harms of pornography, social media, and smartphones. She is the author of The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones (thetechexit.com), and shares her writing at eppc.org and claremorell.substack.com.
Panel 2: Lifestyle + Metabolic Health
Moderator: Emma Waters, The Heritage Foundation
Dr. Andrea Salcedo (OBGYN Specializing in Women’s Reproductive & Metabolic Health)
Dr. Andrea Salcedo, DO, MPH, FACOG, is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist at Loma Linda University, where she specializes in comprehensive women’s health and complex gynecologic conditions. Her clinical and research interests focus on the metabolic roots of diseases like fibroids, PCOS, and endometriosis, and she promotes lifestyle-based, integrative approaches through her YouTube channel *Conscious Gynecologist* and telehealth practice. Fluent in English and Spanish, she is also a dedicated wife, mother, and advocate for patient-centered care.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40460364/
https://lluh.org/search/provider?query=andrea%20salcedo&search=component
Victoria Peck Gray (Functional Medicine Dietitian & Founder, Wonderfully Made Nutrition)
Victoria Peck-Gray is a functional medicine dietitian who works with women to help them get pregnant, lose weight and optimize metabolic health, and heal gut issues and manage autoimmunity. She is available for virtual nutrition coaching across the USA.
Prospective clients can book a free discovery call here.
Two free resources: Top Nutrients for Fertility guide, and Protein, Fat, Fiber Guide for Metabolic Health
Ginny Noce (The Women's Health RN)
Ginny Noce, MS, RN is a registered nurse, Certified FEMM Instructor, and functional nutrition practitioner specializing in hormone health and fertility. After years of navigating her own hormonal imbalance, she founded The Women’s Health RN to help women address root causes through cycle charting and a food-first, functional medicine approach. Ginny holds a Master’s in Human Nutrition & Functional Medicine and combines clinical experience with advanced training in hormone health, blood chemistry, and fertility awareness.
https://thewomenshealthrn.com/
Pam Schoenfeld (Restorative Reproductive & Prenatal Nutrition Specialist)
Adequate essential nutrition is key to female (and male) fertility and optimal pregnancy and birth outcomes. Consumption of nourishing traditional foods (organ meats, whole eggs, full fat dairy) that supply critically important nutrients, including vitamin A in the form of retinol, should be encouraged for women (and men) in their reproductive years.
https://www.womenandfamilynutrition.com/
Panel 3: Root Causes, Restorative Treatment + Informed Consent
Grace Emily Stark (Editor-in-Chief at Natural Womanhood; Fertility Awareness Advocate & Instructor)
Natural Womanhood is a nonprofit magazine dedicated to women’s health and fertility awareness, advocating for body literacy as essential to informed consent and true reproductive empowerment. Through educational content, programming, podcasts, and real-life stories, they promote natural family planning and restorative reproductive medicine as alternatives to birth control and IVF—highlighting the often-overlooked risks of hormonal contraception, sterilization, and assisted reproductive technologies. Their mission is to help women reclaim their cycles as a source of power, health, and freedom.
Dr. Marguerite Duane (Family Physician, FACTS about Fertility)
Dr. Marguerite Duane, a board-certified family physician, is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS about Fertility, an organization dedicated to educating medical professionals and students about the scientific evidence supporting fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs). She also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University, and as the Director of the Center for Fertility Awareness Education and Research at Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Duane is trained as a Creighton, FEMM and NeoFertility Medical Consultant and she cares for patients via a direct primary care house-calls based practice, MD for Life.
https://www.factsaboutfertility.org
Dr. Patrick Yeung (Founder & Surgeon, RESTORE Center for Endometriosis)
Dr. Patrick Yeung, a fellowship-trained expert in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, spent 15 years in academic medicine at Duke University and Saint Louis University, performing on nearly 4,000 cases and contributing to multiple landmark publications. He founded the RESTORE Center for Endometriosis to pay forward what helped his own wife relieve debilitating pain and regain natural fertility—and to stand as the only endometriosis center that does not offer or refer to IVF.
Landmark 10-Year Study – This publication demonstrates the possibility of “one and done” surgery for most endometriosis patients, without requiring long-term postoperative hormonal suppression.
Seminal Article in RRM – A published summary in the Journal of Restorative Reproductive Medicine outlining the vital role of surgery within the broader framework of restorative reproductive care.
Dr. Tracey Parnell (Physician & Global Director, International Institute for RRM)
Dr. Tracey Parnell is a restorative reproductive medicine (RRM) physician and researcher who serves as Global Director of Communications and Development for the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine. She is also a managing editor for the Journal of Restorative Reproductive Medicine, with a focus on PCOS and endometriosis, and serves as Medical Director for RRMed, a training group for RRM professionals.
Panel 4: Pregnancy, Birth + Informed Consent
Moderator: Debra Sheldon, MAHA Institute
Sally Fallon Morell (President and Founder of Weston A. Price Foundation)
Sally Fallon Morell is the founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, which promotes the dietary principles of healthy traditional cultures, emphasizing nutrient-dense foods like liver, raw milk, cod liver oil, bone broth, and fermented vegetables. She is the author of the bestselling cookbook Nourishing Traditions and co-author (with Dr. Tom Cowan) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care. She also founded A Campaign for Real Milk to advocate for access to safe, raw dairy products.
Learn more at:www.westonaprice.org
www.realmilk.com
www.nourishingtraditions.com
Dr. Stuart Fischbein (Midwifery-Aligned OB/GYN, Global Birth Educator & Co-Host of Birthing Instincts)
Stuart Fischbein is a board-certified OB/GYN who spent over two decades attending hospital births and more than a decade supporting home births alongside midwives. Now retired from clinical practice after nearly 40 years, he brings a unique perspective on maternity care shaped by his collaborative work across settings. He continues to advocate for informed decision-making, physician–midwife collaboration, and physiological birth, and travels internationally to teach breech and twin delivery skills. Dr. Fischbein is also the co-host of the Birthing Instincts podcast and author of several peer-reviewed publications and the book Fearless Pregnancy.
https://www.birthinginstincts.com/
Instagram: @birthinginstincts
Peer-reviewed studies and publications:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313941
Kallie Fell (Executive Director, Center for Culture and Bioethics)
The Center for Bioethics and Culture is an educational non-profit committed to protecting women’s health and human dignity, particularly through education around assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including egg “donation", egg freezing, and surrogacy.
You can explore more through these key resources:
Our YouTube Channel – Interviews, 11 free documentaries (four on assisted reproduction), and commentary.
Comprehensive Report on ART – A detailed analysis of ART’s impact on women and children.
Study on Gestational Surrogate Mothers (Dignity Journal) – Grounded research highlighting the real risks behind surrogate pregnancies
Paul Ramsey Institute, Program Director
Venus Rising, Host
Twitter @kal_fell
Adelaide Meadow, (Female Physiology Educator & Homebirth Attendant)
Adelaide Meadow is a biomechanist, women’s health advocate, and lay homebirth midwife. In addition to perinatal care, she supports women in healing a variety of pelvic health concerns, focusing on the role our physical structure plays in our health and birth outcomes. Her professional work centers on bringing the worlds of exercise physiology and human biomechanics into the work of midwifery, perinatal, and well-woman care.
A link to our true core health program:
https://adelaidemeadow.com/true-core-health
A link to our Born Through Movement program:
https://www.adelaidemeadow.com/born-through-movement
Claire Dooley (Documentary Filmmaker and Health Freedom Advocate)
Claire Dooley is a documentary filmmaker known for exposing corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and amplifying grassroots movements for bodily autonomy and personal freedom. She co-produced Infertility: A Diabolical Agenda with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Holland, revealing evidence of non-consensual sterilization by the WHO in Kenya, and directed Peace and War, which documents the American trucker protest against vaccine mandates. Now focused on building solutions, Claire is part of the Mothers2b team, creating a free, comprehensive resource for women through every stage of motherhood.
