CHRISTINA E. SEBESTYEN, MD

PART I: General Information

Education:
Current UTSA - Masters in Public Administration degree candidate
1999 MD University of Pennsylvania
1994 AB Princeton University (NJ) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology-Cum Laude
1991 Ridgefield High School (CT) Salutatorian

Postdoctoral Training:
1999-2003 Residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Brigham & Women's/Massachusetts General Hospitals
7-12/2003 Gynecologic Oncology Laboratory Fellow
Brigham & Women's Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
11/2005 ABOG board certification

Employment:
2/04-2/06 OB/GYN - Caring Partners OB/GYN, Rochester, NH
8/06 - 10/07 OB/GYN - Obstetrics & Gynecology North, Austin, TX
8/06 - 10/07 Assistant Medical Director - San Antonio PP clinics, San Antonio, TX
10/07 - current Solo-Practice Ob/Gyn, Austin, TX

Major Committee Assignments:

Texas Medical Association
Young Physician Section
*Delegate 5/06 - current (represent physicians <40 years old at the TMA & AMA house of delegates)

Frisbie Memorial Hospital
Quality assurance committee
*Ob/Gyn member 04-06 (review all cases with complications from ob/gyn department)

New Hampshire Medical Society
Executive Committee
*Young Physician member 04 - 06 (represent physicians <40 years old at the executive committee)
Young Physician Section
*Co-Chair 04 - 06 (revitalize the young physician population of NH and engage them in patient legislative advocacy)

Massachusetts Medical Society
Board of Trustees
*Resident Trustee 02-04 (participate in administrative direction of MMS)
Resident Fellow Section Governing Council
*State Chair 01-02 (lead the council in efforts to introduce policy at the state level, increase membership, and improve communication)
*Council Member 00-04 (contribute to the above efforts)
Committee on Environmental/Occupational Health
*Committee Member 00-02 (participate in discussion and implementation of environmental policy affecting the health of the Commonwealth)
Committee on Bylaws
*Committee Member 02-03 (review drafts of revision of bylaws to be consistent with recently adopted policy)
Committee on Legislation
*Committee Member 03-04 (review pertinent health care legislation on both state and national levels)
Committee on Medical Service
*Committee guest 03-04 (assist with the development of procedural competency standards)

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
Board of Trustees
*Trustee 03-06 (review organization priorities and participate in research studies)

American Medical Association
Young Physician Section
*State Delegate 04-05 (represent NH physicians <40 years old by drafting resolutions and debating policy in the national assembly)
Resident Fellow Section
*State Delegate 00-03 (represent MA residents by drafting resolutions for and debating policy in the national assembly)
*Regional Activism Network representative 01-03 (increase regional participation and foster communication between national and regional levels)

American College of Obstetricians/Gynecologists
Massachusetts section
*Junior Fellow Task-Force member 00-02 (develop novel junior fellow events to encourage involvement in ACOG)

American Medical Student Association
Standing Committee on Medical Education
*Project Board Member 98-99 (support project coordinators in the development of national educational campaigns)
Task-force on Occupational/Environmental Health (OEH)
*National Coordinator 97-99 (coordinate programming on OEH topics at national conventions and promote adoption of Human Health and Global Environmental Change curriculum at medical schools nationally)
Task-force on Women In Medicine (WIM)
*Regional Coordinator 97-99 (co-found AMSA Women in Medicine Annual Lobby Day to encourage participation in patient legislative advocacy)

University of Pennsylvania Women Medical Student Association
*Co-Chair 96-97 (foster interaction between female attendings and medical students through mentorship program and panel discussions)

Professional Societies:
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (99-current)
American Medical Association (95-current)
American Medical Student Association (97-current)
American Medical Women's Association (96-04)
Massachusetts Medical Society (99-06)
New Hampshire Medical Society (04-06)
Physicians for Social Responsibility (97-current)
Texas Medical Association (06-current)

Awards and Honors:
2002 Partners HealthCare System Award in Excellence for innovative solutions to resident work hour regulations
2001 AMA Foundation Leadership Award
1999 AMWA J.M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation
1998 Alpha Omega Alpha (medical honor society)
1998 National Health Service Corps/American Medical Student Association Foundation Award - best health policy project - Women in Medicine Lobby Day
1994 Sigma Xi (scientific honor society)


PART II: Research, Teaching, and Clinical Contributions

Report of Past Research Activities:
1. The Effect of Perchloroethylene Exposure on Neurobehavioral Testing of Children in Pumpkin Patch Daycare (CDC EpiAid to Albany, NY) - Assistant Coordinator
2. The Affect of Antenatal Corticosteroid Treatment for Fetal Lung Maturation on Neonatal Sepsis Risk in Patients with Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) - Research Assistant
3. Methods Study of ICD-9 Codes for Selection of Patients with PPROM (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) - Research Assistant
4. Effects of Tylenol, Aspirin, and a Cox2-inhibitor on Normal versus Malignant Human Ovarian Epithelial Cells (Harvard University School of Medicine, Principle Investigators: Samuel Mok, PhD and Christina Bandera, MD) - Research Fellow
5. Contamination of Breast Milk with PBDEs. (Boston University School of Public Health) - OB/GYN staff member.

Report of Past Teaching:
*1994-5 Science of Biology and Introduction to Sign Language
Instructor of lecture and laboratory components
Trinidad State Junior College, Walsenburg, CO
*1998-9 Wilderness Medicine clinical elective (2-week course)
Course co-developer and coordinator
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
*2000 GYN noon lecture series
Patient Legislative Advocacy-
Mercury: The FDA Advisory on Fish Consumption for Women
Biodiversity Loss and Human Health
How to be a Leader
*2001 BWH Grand Rounds
Population Control: The Role of the Ob/Gyn
*3/2002 MGH Grand Rounds
Native American Healthcare: An Alaskan Adventure
*4/2002 BWH Grand Rounds
Tertiary Wound Closure
*5/2002 In Harm's Way - faculty facilitator for discussion of environmental toxin influence on fetal/child health sponsored by Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
*9/2002 BWH Grand Rounds
Management of the Complex Adnexal Mass in Premenopausal Pts
*2/2003 BWH Meconium Rounds
Legislative Advocacy for the OB/GYN
Previable Preeclampsia/HELLP
Fourth-Degree Dehiscence
Mullerian Anomalies in OB
*6/2003 Gyn Morbidity & Mortality Report
Cervical Ectopic Pregnancy
*4/2004 VT, MA, RI La Leche League Conference
Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child Development
*5/2004 Partners in Perinatal Health
In Utero: Prenatal Environmental Influences on the Developing
Fetus
*6/2004 Massachusetts section of AWOHNN
Out of Harm's Way: Preventing Toxic Threats to Child
Development
*11/2004 Caring Partners Obstetrics & Gynecology
Promoting Health After Menopause
*2/2005 OmniMed - NGO providing CME to developing countries
Daily lectures to RN/MD staff on general ob/gyn issues
One-week medical outreach trip to Georgetown, Guyana

PART III: Bibliography

*Technical Reports
Exposure at a Daycare Center in Albany, NY. Trip Report. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 1999 March. Report: EPI2-99-3.

Pumpkin Patch Daycare Center Investigation. Public Comment Draft. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and NY State Department of Health; 1999 March.

*Thesis
Sebestyen C. The Behavioral Ecology of Intra- and Interharem
Aggression in Feral Ponies (Equus caballus) on Shackleford Island, North
Carolina [AB thesis]. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University; 1994.

*Abstracts
Lee K, Sebestyen C. AMSA Women in Medicine Lobby Day [abstract and convention presentation]. Proceedings of the American Medical Student Association National Convention; March 1998; Washington, DC.

Kelmenson C, Newell K, Harnley H, Sebestyen C, Shea J, Rubin H. Evaluation of a Novel Student Designed and Coordinated Course in Wilderness Medicine [abstract and convention poster]. Proceedings of the AAMC for RIME; October 1999; Washington, DC.

Sebestyen C, Birrer M, Berkowitz R, Mok S, Bandera C. Effects of Tylenol, Aspirin, and a Cox2-inhibitor on Normal versus Malignant Human Ovarian Epithelial Cells [abstract and convention poster]. Proceedings of the SGO; February 2004; San Diego, CA.

*Editorials
Sebestyen C., Boudreau, F. Legislative Advocacy for the Obstetrician/Gynecologist. OBG Management 10/02.