Laura Macisaac, MD, MPH

Laura MacIsaac, MD, MPH, is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist with subspecialty training in Complex Family Planning. She serves as the Associate Program Director of the Complex Family Planning Fellowship Program in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. MacIsaac has created and led family planning training programs in several academic medical centers in New York City. She is a distinguished medical educator as the first recipient of the Ryan Residency Training Grant for Family Planning and recognized with national as well as institutional teaching awards. She also served on an expert working group for the U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use in 2010 and the U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use in 2013. She participates in national and regional work as a Fellow of ACOG, including course director for post-graduate courses in Family Planning at the National Clinical Meetings, serving on the Long Acting Reversible Contraception Committee, and is the Chair of Section 1, District II of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She has also published in a number of peer-reviewed journals and presented her work at national conferences.

Dr. MacIsaac received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College and her medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and completed a fellowship in family planning at the University of California, San Francisco. With the support of an ACOG Women’s Health Policy Award, she completed a Master in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.