Dr. Alison Stuebe

Dr. Stuebe graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She completed fellowship training in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s, and she earned a Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and an assistant professor of Maternal-Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Her research focuses on modifiable risk factors for metabolic disease in the perinatal period, and she has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. She serves on the board of directors for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and edits the Breastfeeding Medicine Blog. In the clinical arena, she is the Medical Director of Lactation Services for the UNC HealthCare. She works with an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff in lactation, pediatrics, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, clinical and laboratory pathology, general surgery, dermatology, and maternal/child health. Her current research focuses on clinical management of breastfeeding complications and the role of oxytocin in maternal health.