Women who inspire
Kirsten E. Lawrence, MD MSCE
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Portrait by ChiChi Ubiña

YWCA Greenwich will be holding its 7th Annual Women Who Inspire Awards to recognize exceptional women in our community. YWCA Greenwich’s Women Who Inspire Awards was established to recognize and celebrate outstanding women who have excelled in philanthropic, professional, and volunteer pursuits. Importantly, these honorees have enriched the lives of many in our community. This event acknowledges the changes in society that have led to the fluidity of work/life pursuits for women of today.

 

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Dr. Kirsten Lawrence grew up in Northeastern CT, one of four children of Jerry, a NYC raised community orthopedic surgeon and Fleur, a Stockholm native who moved to NY as a PanAm Flight Attendant. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she received a B.A. in English. Inspired by her father, she went medical school at UConn and then trained in New York to become an Obstetrician Gynecologist and in Philadelphia as a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Clinical Epidemiologist.

Kirsten spent the first 16 years of her career at New York Presbyterian/Columbia, caring for women with complex pregnancy and leading safety and research initiatives focused on maternal health. 

After experiencing preeclampsia, she began advocacy and research work with the New York State Safe Motherhood Initiative, the Preeclampsia Foundation and she ran four marathons to raise money for Every Mother Counts, a global initiative focused on decreasing maternal morbidity and mortality.

Kirsten came to Greenwich Hospital in early 2020 as a clinician with a focus on caring for pregnant women with complex medical problems, and on the quality and safety challenges in the field of obstetrics. In the first wave of the pandemic, her responsibilities and focus expanded quickly, as she joined teams overseeing development, communication, and implementation of COVID related process improvement across the Yale Health System.

Kirsten is now focused on the broader opportunities and challenges to support high quality, safe and equitable care for patients and communities within a complex hospital setting and across a diverse health system.

She and her husband live in Greenwich with her husband, three kids and two dogs.