Joia Crear-Perry, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
CERTIFICATION
2004 American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology
EDUCATION
1997 MD, Louisiana State University Medical Center
1992 Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
1991 Socio-Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Post-Graduate Training
2001 Residency: Obstetrics & Gynecology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
1995 Fellowship: NIH Medical Student, David Raines Community Health Center, Shreveport, LA
Established protocol for prenatal care
1994 – 1995 Fellowship: Area Health Education
Evaluated patients in a primary care setting
EMPLOYMENT AND WORK EXPERIENCE
2018 - Present Principal of Health Equity Cypher, Nationally
2015 - Present Founder and President, National Birth Equity Collaborative, New Orleans, LA. Washington D.C.
2014 – 2015 Executive Director, Birthing Project USA
2013 – 2015 Medical Director, Crear Multispecialty Group, New Orleans, LA
2012 Medical Director, Louisiana Healthcare Connections, Baton Rouge, LA
2011 – 2012 Director of Women’s Services, Jefferson Community Healthcare Center, Marrero, LA
2008 – 2010 Director of Clinical Services, City of New Orleans Health Department, New Orleans, LA
2007 – 2008 Medical Director, Women’s Health and Justice Initiative, New Orleans, LA
2006 – 2010 Director/Founder, Medical Reserve Corp for Region One – Office of the Surgeon General
2006 – 2008 Medical Director, Health Start New Orleans, Director of Maternal and Child Services, New Orleans Health Department, New Orleans, LA
2005- Present Medical Volunteer Red Cross Shelter, Monroe Louisiana
2002 – 2005 Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Preceptor for Medical Students, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2002 – 2005 Preceptor for Medical Students, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2002 – 2005 Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner Students, Loyola University
2002 – 2005 Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner Students, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
2001 – Present Obstetrician/Gynecologist Physician, Private Practice
HONORS AND AWARDS
2017 Planned Parenthood Federation of America Champion for Women’s Health
2015 NYC Urban Professionals Award
2012 Asante Healthcare Leadership Award
2009 Ford Motor Freedom Sisters with Dorothy Height
2006; 2007 Tulane Xavier National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Honoree
2006 Changing Faces Award; NewOrleansBlack.com
2006 Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust Heroes Award
2001 Isadore Dyer, MD Award for Teaching Excellence
Presented by the Junior Residents to the Senior Resident who most effectively
and unselfishly influenced their learning experience.
1995 NIH Medical Student Fellowship
1993 – 1995 Area Health Education Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS AND BOARDS
2012 - Present Region V Chair/ Trustee, representing Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas; National Medical Association Board of Trustees
2/2011 – 2013 Community Care 2.0 Quality Committee to advise Louisiana DHH concerning health-care quality, on-going improvement opportunities and adjustments in the pay for performance program
2009 – 2014 Board, Birthing Project USA
2009 – Present Board of Directors, Community Catalyst
2009 – 2014 Board, Louisiana Consumer Healthcare Coalition
2009 – 2013 President, New Orleans Medical Association
2008 – 2010 Medical Home Subcommittee Stakeholder and Quality Measures Plan and Provider Performance Subcommittee, Louisiana Healthcare Quality Forum
2008 – 2010 President, Tulane Obstetrics and Gynecology Alumni Association
2007 – 2008 Board of Directors, Coalition of Leaders in Louisiana Healthcare
2007 – Present Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy Project
2006 – 2007 Chairperson of Workforce Recruitment Subcommittee, Louisiana Healthcare Redesign Collaborative under Sec. of Health Leavitt
2006 Spokesperson, Metropolitan Physicians Council
2006 – Present Board of Directors, New Orleans African American Museum
2005 - 2006 Healthcare Subcommittee, Bring New Orleans Back Committee
2004 –2010 Fellow, American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2004 – 2005 Board of Directors, Beautiful Foundation
Dedicated to improve the self-esteem of girls of color
2002 – 2005 Member, Black Women in Medicine
2001 –Present Executive Board Member, New Orleans Medical Association
1997 – 2004 Junior Fellow, American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
1997 – Present Member, National Medical Association
1996 –1997 President, Student National Medical Association LSUMC
1993 – 1997 Member, Student National Medical Association
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
- Crear, J (2017, Feb.). “Our Quest to Save Mother’s Lives Is Just Beginning”. Linked Local Network, The Women’s Hub.
- Crear, J. (2015, Oct.) Domestic Violence and Birth Equity. -Women’s eNews
- Crear, J. (2008, Jan.). Building Best Environments for Vulnerable Children and their Families. CityMatCH City Lights 16(3).
- Crear, J. (2007). What is the Difference between a Charity Hospital System and a University Hospital System? Journal of the National Medical Association, 99(582).
- Palace, E., & Crear, J. (2007). The Effect of Dose Titration and Dose Tapering on the Tolerability of DVS SR in Women with Vasomotor Symptoms Associated with Menopause: Wyeth.
- Crear, J., Shervington, D., Richardson, L., Griffin, S., & Haywood, D. (2007). Sexual and Reproductive Health Advocacy Project: Ford Foundation.
- ACOG Region VII Research Presentations, 1st Place. (1999). “Hemoglobin A1C as Screening Test for Pregestational Diabetes.”
PRESENTATIONS
- New York State Task Force on Maternal Mortality and Disparate Racial Outcomes, Black Maternal Health Inequities– June 2018
- Academy Health Annual Research Meeting – Structural Racism and Maternal Mortality and Morbidity June 2018
- HRSA Maternal Mortality Summit – Promising Global Practices to Improve Maternal Health Outcomes, keynote June 2018
- Center for Reproductive Rights State Leadership Summit – Opening Plenary Speaker June 2018
- Reproductive Justice Leadership Summit – June 2018
- Women’s Health: The Intersection of Research, Policy, and Practice, 500 Women Scientist – speaker, June 2018
- Cradle Kalamazoo Equity Project Training - Patient Social Risk Assessment Practice Scenarios – speaker/trainer, June 2018
- Center for Reproductive Rights, “Framing Maternal Mortality Review Committees” – speaker, June 2018
- Child Safety Convening; Innovative Strategies to Improve Child Safety and Prevention, Casey Family Programs – keynote, May 2018
- Prematurity Prevention Summit , Arlington VA, Building a Birth Equity Movement – speaker, May 2018
- NYMC Grand Rounds, Westchester Medical Center – speaker, May 2018
- National Medical Association Regions III & IV – Racism as the Root Cause of Inequities in Patient Outcomes – speaker, April 2018
- 11th Annual Louisiana Parenting Education Network Summit – Social Determinants of Health and Equity in Client Care – training April 2018
- California Black Infant Health – The Crises of Black Infant and Maternal Mortality – speaker, April 2018
- Cradle Kalamazoo Equity Project – Social Determinants of Health and Equity in Patient Care – speaker, March 2018
- Hofstra Birth Equity Framework for Maternal and Infant Health– speaker, March 2018
- The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Legislative Conference – BMMA – Paving the Way Forward on Black Maternal Health – speaker, March 2018
- Annie E Casey Foundation – Using the Racial Equity Lens for Birth Equity – speaker, December, 2017
- City Council District of Columbia – Maternal Mortality Review Committee Bill– testified, December 2017
- Cradle Kalamazoo Equity Project – professional services and speaker, November, 2017
- 2017 Women’s Health Day and Retreat – speaker, November, 2017
- Reproductive Justice Congressional Hill Briefing – speaker, October 2017
- Baltimore Resilience – Floor, Net, or Trampoline? Building Resilient Systems for Our Families – speaker, October 2017
- Tulsa, OK Healthy Start – Putting Birth Equity First for Clinicians and the Community – speaker, October 2017
- FIMR and Healthy Start Collaboration – Eliminating Inequities in Infant Mortality – speaker, September 2017
- Health Equity and Infant Mortality – Detroit, MI – speaker, September, 2017
- Social Determinants of Health Inequities – Michigan FIIMR Network – speaker, September, 2017
- Missouri Bootheel Regional Consortium – Infant Mortality Workshop – speaker, September, 2017
- New York City Regional Healthy Start – Health Equity to Address Black Infant Mortality – speaker, September, 2017
- Chicago Regional Healthy Start – Health Equity to Address Black Infant Mortality – speaker, September, 2017
- Camp Reimagine March of Dimes – Steps Toward Achieving Birth Equity – speaker, July 2017
- Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care Safety Action Series: “Steps Toward Achieving Birth Equity…” – speaker, July 2017
- Illinois Health Department – Health Equity to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality – speaker, July, 2017
- BMMA Congressional Briefing. Washington, D.C. – Black Maternal Health Matters: Policies to Improve Maternal Health in the U.S. – speaker, June 2017
- Academy Health Annual Research Meeting: Structural Racism, Health Systems, and Health Inequities – panelist, June 2017
- March of Dimes Perinatal Nursing – Hospital Systems and Policies Impacting Maternal Health - speaker, March 2017
- Cradle Kalamazoo Equity Project – speaker, March 2017
- NHSA (National Healthy Start Association) 2017 – Black Mamas Matter: Birth Equity and Human Rights – speaker, January 2017
- Reframing Infant Mortality to Reach Equity – Cleveland, OH – speaker – November, 2016
- Reframing Infant Mortality to Reach Equity – Detroit, MI – speaker – November, 2016
- Healing Trough Storytelling: Models to Improve Health for Detroit Women & Children – speaker, November, 2016
- United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Utilizing a Human Rights Framework to Improve Maternal Mortality - speaker, September 16, 2016
- Maternal Mortality Presentation NYC Urban Professionals – speaker, December, 2015
- R.O.S.E. Conference - Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality – speaker, October, 2015
- National Minority Quality Forum and Congressional Black Caucus Spring Health Braintrust –– Health Insurance Exchanges and Medicaid, What’s Really at Stake - speaker, April 23, 2013
- National Medical Association Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly – Women’s Health – speaker July 30, 2012
- SNMA Region 3 Conference – Life after Residency –November 10, 2012
- Louisiana State Senate and House Health and Welfare Subcommittees – Hearing on approval of CCN – speaker Pro- January 18 and 19, 2011
- National Health Policy Forum – Transforming Care Delivery: Insights from the New Orleans Safety Net – Speaker – April 16, 2010
- Red Tent Event, African American Museum – Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day – Presenter – March 6, 2010
- Urban League of Greater New Orleans – College Track Mentoring Program – Speaking Engagement – 2009/2010 bi-weekly
- United States House of Representatives – Committee on Oversight and Government Reform – “Post-Katrina Recovery: Restoring Health Care in the New Orleans Region” – Testimony – December 3, 2009
- Doula Training (Birth training) – Obstetrics Presentation – October 24, 2009
- Healthcare Ministry for Franklin Ave. Baptist Church – Speaker – September 2009
- Red Tent Event, Dillard University – August 8, 2009
- Louisiana Medical Association Conference – The State of Healthcare in New Orleans – Speaker – June 2009 and June 2011
- American College of Surgeons Annual Conference – The Role of “Charity” Hospital in the 21st Century – Speaker – August 2008
- National Medical Association Region V Conference – Infant Mortality in Louisiana and Gestational Diabetes – Speaker – May 2008
- Fit for a King Weekend, State of Black New Orleans - Speaker – 2007 – 2008
- Translating Health Risks and Interventions to Survive through Education – THRIVE: A Wellness Program for Women – Local Chair, Planning Committee and Speaker – April 12, 2008
- XVII Annual CityMatCH Urban MCH Leadership Conference – Speaker – September 2007
- Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Caucus Health Braintrust – Speaker – 2007