Pooja Mehta, MD

Dr. Mehta is part-time Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans School of Medicine. She grew up in the United Kingdom, India, and New York, and received her undergraduate degree in History and Sociology from Columbia University. She obtained her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine through the Humanities and Medicine Program, after completing a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship in Durban, South Africa. She completed her residency training at Boston University Medical Center, where she was awarded the Boston University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Award for Humanism in Medicine. She was an attending obstetrician-gynecologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 2013-2015. Upon completion, Dr. Mehta returned to the Boston University School of Medicine as faculty in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Mehta relocated to New Orleans in August 2017, and is proud to call this city home. She served as a consultant to the Louisiana Department of Health and Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and Louisiana Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review from 2017-2019. She is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist passionate about working with communities to address social determinants of health in those with complex and critical needs, and currently serves as Women's Health Lead for Cityblock Health.

Dr. Mehta's research has been supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and she serves on the ACOG Committee for American Indian/Alaskan Native Women's Health. She is an inductee of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and a recipient of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Research Fellowship for Contraceptive Access in Low-Resource Populations, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Warren H. Pearse Award for Women's Health Policy Research. Dr. Mehta's clinical interests include obstetrical and contraceptive care, reproductive infectious disease and lesbian, bisexual, and transgender/gender-non-conforming care, as well as treatment of fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding, cervical dysplasia, colposcopic evaluations, hysteroscopy, LEEP/cone biopsy, operative laparoscopy, and well-woman care.