Kristine E. Shields

Kristine Shields is the author of The Vulva Owner's Manual on Birth Control: Finding Your Best Option for Contraception and Pregnancy and the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Movement toward Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy for Pregnant Women (Elsevier, 2019). She’s a women's health nurse practitioner with a doctoral degree in public health; these fields reflect her passion and inform her writing. As a clinician, she provided comprehensive inpatient and ambulatory care in obstetrics and gynecology. As an epidemiologist she was responsible for one of the earliest Pregnancy Registry programs within the pharmaceutical industry. As a researcher, she has published scientific papers in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Birth Defects Research and other medical journals. Dr. Shields is most widely known for her research into medication safety during pregnancy. She has participated in volunteer activities in India and Nicaragua and has blogged about women’s health issues for BabyMed, Pregistry, and Ms. Magazine. She lives mostly in the beautiful Bucks County woods of Pennsylvania but is frequently sighted in the low country of South Carolina. Learn more about her at www.kristineshieldsauthor.com.