Damali Campbell, MD

Damali Campbell, MD

Associate Professor, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and OB/GYN, University Hospital

I am a physician board certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Addiction Medicine. I have dedicated my practice to improve the care for women in underserved areas. Since graduating from residency training in Jersey City, I have worked in New Jersey urban areas including Jersey City, Paterson, and Newark. My special interests within women’s health include broadening health education. I have spearheaded a number of programs focused on community women’s health including implementing Centering Pregnancy and improving nutrition pregnancy at our academic medical center, and co-leading our College of American Pathology (CAP) grant, sponsored free cervical and breast cancer screening program for uninsured women. I am also the physician lead for University Hospital to be the first hospital in our population dense county to achieve the Baby Friendly Designation. In addition to a focus on women who live below the poverty line in my clinical practice, I also see and manage women who are pregnant with opioid use disorder and manage both the pregnancy and the medical aspects of their addiction.

Since 2007, I have been a committee member of the NJ Maternal Mortality Review Committee which is a volunteer multidisciplinary peer-review group that reviews each death of a woman within 365 days of a pregnancy regardless of the pregnancy location of the pregnancy. This work and advocacy for improvement /awareness of maternal health has led me to be a part of various work groups in NJ including NJ First Lady’s maternal initiative- Nurture New Jersey Summit and a speaker for the US Surgeon General’s listening tour on maternal mortality.