2021 DAFP Women's Health Summit
 
Faculty for Women's Health Summit
Karen Antell, MD, MPH, FAAFP,
Dept.of Family Medicine; Community Medicine Director of Maternity/Women’s Health Education, Family Med. Residency Program Faculty, OB/GYN Residency Program
Dr. Karen J. Antell joined the ChristianaCare Family Medicine Residency Program faculty in 2008. She serves as Director of Maternity and Women’s Health for the Family Medicine Residency Program. She maintains an active practice at Westside Family Health Care in the urban Westside neighborhood of Wilmington, where she provides a full spectrum of care and residency education, including prenatal care, office gynecology, newborn and pediatric care, and chronic disease management. She precepts residents at two ChristianaCare Family Medicine residency sites in Wilmington. She maintains family medicine obstetrical privileges at Christiana Care, where she supervises both family medicine and OB/GYN residents. Dr. Antell is also the Medical Director for the ChristianaCare School-Based Health Centers at 18 schools within New Castle and Kent Counties in Delaware. She received a Rising Star award at Christiana Care in 2016.She serves as an instructor in the Obstetric Emergency Response (OBERT) program at Christiana, and has been appointed as Clinical Champion for the Primary Care Contraception/Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Integrated Practice Team, also working on the Delaware CAN (Contraceptive Access Now) initiative as a provider trainer with non-profit partner Upstream.org. She holds an appointment as Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She received her BA with Honors from Brown University, her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, and she completed her residency at West Suburban Family Practice Residency in Oak Park, Illinois. She earned her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2015. She has been active in the Delaware Academy of Family Physicians and served as DAFP President for 2019-20. In 2020, Dr. Antell received her professional certification from the North American Menopause Society as a NAMS Certified Menopause Practitioner.
 
Lindsay Ashkenase, MD
Family Physician, Director of Women’s Health at Westside Family Healthcare (FQHC), Wilmington, DE
Dr. Lindsay Ashkenase graduated from the University of Delaware with a BA in Biology and Minor in Sociology, and earned her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine residency training at Christiana Care. After residency, she served as faculty of the Family Medicine Residency at Christiana Care and as the Residency Site Director for Westside Family Healthcare. She completed a HRSA Family Medicine Physician Faculty Development Fellowship with a focus on Developing Leaders in Residency Training and Scholars in Cultural Competency. In addition, she worked as a clinical physician with the Christiana Care Health System HIV Community Program. Last year, Dr. Ashkenase began in her current role as the Director of Women’s Health at Westside Family Healthcare, a community health center with locations throughout Delaware. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a past-president and current board member of the Delaware Academy of Family Physicians.
 
David Hack, MD, FAAFP
Family Physician, Medical Director of St Francis Family Medical Office and St Francis Home Care, and the House of Joseph II Wilmington, DE
David Hack grew up in Northern New Jersey before becoming a graduate of Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He went on to graduate from the University of Medicine and Dentistry with a medical degree and completed 3 years of training in Family Medicine before staying on at the residency to work as faculty in teaching. He is medical director of the St Francis Family Medical Office and St Francis Home Care. Additionally, he is medical director of the House of Joseph II, a group home for precariously housed men and women with HIV. His real passion is in women’s health where he has been medical director of the Tiny Steps program, a comprehensive approach to preconception, prenatal, and infant care in the city of Wilmington.
 
Martha A. Simmons, MD
Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
Dr. Simmons is a family doctor who practices full spectrum reproductive health including abortion and prenatal care as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood of Delaware. She earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed family medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a reproductive health and advocacy fellowship at the Reproductive Health Access Project and The Institute for Family Health in New York, New York. Dr. Simmons holds a leadership position with the AAFP’s Reproductive Health Care Member Interest Group, serves on the AAFP's Commission for Federal and State Policy and is an active advocate for women’s health and reproductive health issues.