The Penguin Speakers Bureau

Dr. Donnica Moore is a highly regarded women’s health expert and advocate, as a physician educator and as a media commentator. Dr. Moore is the founder and president of Sapphire Women’s Health Group LLC, a multimedia women’s health education and communications firm. She is also founder and president of www.DrDonnica.com, an award-winning women’s health information website launched in September 2000 with over five million hits a month. Dr. Moore is the editor-in-chief of the comprehensive, highly illustrated book Women’s Health For Life.

Best known as “Dr. Donnica,” Moore is most well-recognized for her appearances in more than 550 television interviews and more than 200 radio interviews on various women’s health and general medical topics. Dr. Donnica was the women’s health contributor for NBC’s Later Today, appearing weekly from 1999-2000 covering diverse women’s health issues. Previously, she was a frequent guest on NBC’s Weekend Today Show. She has also been a guest on Oprah, The View, Good Morning America, The Tyra Banks Show, CNN, The Rachael Ray Show, FOX News, and many other shows, as well as having been featured in three E! Entertainment specials. Her voice was heard daily from September 2000 through March 2002 on the nationally syndicated radio spot, Dr. Donnica’s Women’s Health Report, which aired in 132 markets.

Dr. Moore is a popular speaker for both medical and consumer audiences on topics related to general medical issues, women’s health, drug development, balancing work and family, and others. She is well known for her engaging and entertaining style which she refers to as “Medicine Lite”: using humor as the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down. She has addressed numerous women’s fairs, employee groups, consumer and professional associations, and medical organizations.

Her more than 120 published articles (in medical journals and consumer magazines) focus on women’s health and career issues. She has been the “Doctor on Call” columnist for First for Women magazine (circulation one million) since 2002. Her articles have covered women’s health clinical and research issues, the drug discovery and development process, osteoporosis, cervical cancer screening, product liability, the impact of managed care on clinical research, media management of women’s health, and disease management.

Dr. Moore’s presence on the Internet goes beyond her site at DrDonnica.com. She was the women’s health expert for YahooHealth.com from 2003-2007. She is a medical advisory board member for the Cosmetics Executive Women website www.CancerAndCareers.com. Dr. Moore is also the founder of Princeton University’s alumni online discussion group “Parent-Net,” which deals with balancing work/family issues. Several of her television interviews are still available online, including a segment teaching Tyra Banks to breast-feed which became a VH1 “Best Week Ever” selection and has had over 1.3 million views on YouTube.com alone.

She has received more than thirty awards for her achievements in medicine and business. Most recently, Dr. Moore was a recipient of the 2007 Women in Government Presidential Leadership Award in recognition of her efforts to raise awareness about cervical cancer prevention and early diagnosis. She received the first Alumnae Leadership Award from Princeton University’s Women’s Center in 2001. In 2000, Dr. Moore was named one of the most influential forces in healthcare information technology by Advance for Healthcare Technology magazine. She is the 1999 winner of the New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women’s Connie Woodruff Award (for “the woman who has best demonstrated a major commitment to women’s issues and concerns”); the Soroptomist Woman of Distinction Award (for her contributions to women’s health), and the American Medical Women’s Association Calcium Education Nutrition Award (for the woman physician who has done the most to advance osteoporosis education). She has also been honored twice as Woman of the Year by the Women’s Health & Counseling Center in Somerville, New Jersey. Her work has been featured in more than forty periodicals such as BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

She has been active in organized medicine for over twenty years. For seven years she served on the board of directors of the American Medical Women’s Association in several regional and national elected positions. She has also been a member of the boards of directors of the Society for Women’s Health Research and the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. Dr. Moore was a founding member and the first co-chair of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ corporate advisory board; a member of the board of trustees of the National Council on Women’s Health, and a member of the board of directors of Research!America, a national coalition of more than 300 organizations and institutions committed to supporting biomedical research.

Dr. Moore’s interest in women’s health research began as a member of the eighth class of women at Princeton University, where she wrote her senior honors thesis, “Elective Hysterectomy and the Unnecessary Surgery Debate.” She graduated cum laude from Princeton and won a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship in Ireland. She earned her medical degree from the State University of New York School of Medicine at Buffalo, where she conducted research in athlete’s amenorrhea, breast cancer rehabilitation, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and endometriosis. She underwent residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Temple University where she was involved with several clinical trials in addition to patient care. This was followed by additional training in family medicine at Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, New Jersey.

She has been married for more than twenty years to Stan Bernard, MD, MBA. They reside in central New Jersey and are the parents of two teenagers.