Meet Our Speaker

Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Dr. Braverman is a Clinical Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.  Dr. Braverman is the Associate Director for the Educational Core for OB/Gyn and also serves as the Director of the College Learning Environment for the university.  She is a health psychologist with a specialty in medical health management, infertility counseling, and third party reproduction issues. She received her M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Braverman has lectured internationally on treatment issues and reproductive medicine before medical and patient audiences.  Dr. Braverman has conducted research and published numerous articles in medical journals about the psychological aspects of infertility, attitudes of parents of children born with the use of ART, issues involved in the decision to end treatment, and psychological issues involved in using third-party donors. Dr. Braverman received the Timothy Jeffries Memorial award in 2011 for outstanding contributions as a health psychologist from the American Psychological Association and the Advocacy Award from the Family Equality Council and Path2Parenthood in 2018.  She is the past president of the North American Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology and past chairperson of the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM).