In the follow up interview to last episode, we are having a discussion with Dr. Terri Major-Kincade, a neonatologist and advocate for Black women. We discuss the disparities that Black women face, the strong Black woman narrative, the effects of negative, the strong Black woman narrative, the effects of negative mental health on the womb, and how creating safe spaces can have positive effects on maternal health.
Dr. Terri’s Bio: 1st introduced to America over 20 years ago as the young Neonatologist featured on ABC’s Houston Medical, Good Morning America and Lifetime’s Women Docs when she cried when her patient died unexpectedly on national television and simultaneously worried about her ability to balance marriage, medicine and family…Dr. Terri or Dr. Boo as she’s often affectionately called, is rapidly becoming America’s Favorite Neonatologist!
Unlike many who find themselves in the career of medicine, she has known since she was five years old that she was going to be the kind of doctor that took care of the babies in the plastic boxes, the babies that could fit in your hand… a preemie baby doctor …inspired by her own sister who was born in 1968 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans weighing only a pound. Dr. Terri has been blessed to achieve this dream by completing her bachelor’s degree as an esteemed graduate of Prairie View A&M University and my Medical and Master’s and Public Health’s Degree from the UCLA/Charles Drew School of Medicine. Moreover she considers herself beyond blessed to live her passion and ministry every day by caring for premature babies and their families as well as the instruction of health care providers in the art of comfort care.
She is a highly requested keynote speaker known in the industry for her authenticity and compassion in discussing challenging topics around racial health disparities and neonatal palliative care but especially for her humor, passion and her dynamic one of a kind approach to telling it like it is for the sake of our families, our babies and our communities. Dr. Terri is a two-time best-selling author and has been featured in several national online magazines including Essence, Ebony, Huggies, NBC, and Black Doctor.Org.
Her national expertise has allowed her to cultivate several exciting partnerships including the pleasure of serving as Chair for the March of Dimes Steering Committee for African American Outreach for the State of Texas for over 10 years where she has been able to successfully implemented a number of effective programs for community outreach around maternal and infant birth outcomes. She additionally serveson the National Board for the Perinatal Loss and Infant Death Alliance (PLIDA) and The Return To Zero HOPE Foundation where she highlights disparities in the area of Bereavement and Neonatal Loss and improving access to research and resource around Pregnancy and Infant Loss.
Dr. Terri’s greatest passion is empowering families to take care of their premature infants before, during and after life in the NICU through informed choices made easy and empowering health care providers to assist families in making difficult choices through her Neonatal Palliative Care Course for hospitals, her Consulting Program for Neonatal Palliative Care and her Telemedicine Practice for follow-up of NICU graduates. She likes to say that her mission is to provide hope for the journey. One baby,one family, one hospital, once community at a time. To pause for the Gift of Hope.
