Maria Isabel Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H. (she/her/ella)

  • Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
  • Medical Director Oregon's Reproductive Health Program
  • Director, Center for Women's Health
  • Director, Center for Reproductive Health Equity

Biography

Maria I. Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H. is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the medical director for Oregon's Reproductive Health Program. She is the director for the Center for Women's Health and Center for Reproductive Health Equity.  She completed medical school and residency at OHSU (2004, 2008), and a fellowship in family planning at UCSF (2010). As part of her fellowship, she completed a master’s in Public Health at University of California, Berkeley (2010). Following her fellowship, she spent five years working for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. She serves as chair of Oregon’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee and as co-chair on the Medicaid Advisory Committee.

Dr. Rodriguez provides OB/GYN care at the Center for Women’s Health, with a focus on family planning.

Dr. Rodriguez’s research focuses on the intersection of medicine, policy and economics. She is specifically interested in generating information to help guide evidence based reproductive health policy both domestically and internationally. She has expertise in cost effectiveness, health systems and policy research, systematic reviews and GRADE methodologies. Her research has been nationally recognized with the Guttmacher Institute’s Darroch Award for Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research and the Society of Family Planning’s Beacon of Science Award in 2019.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 2004, Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
    • M.P.H., 2010, University of California Berkeley
  • Residency

    • Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health and Science University, 2008
  • Fellowship

    • Fellowship in Complex Family Planning, University of California San Francisco, 2010
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Memberships and associations:

  • American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Areas of interest

  • Family planning
  • Reproductive health policy
  • Reproductive health equity
  • Cost effectiveness, health systems and policy research

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Association of insurance type with unmet need for menopause care in Oregon

    Menopause
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Haley Burns
    3. Kaitlin Schrote
    4. Sara Cichowski
    5. Karen Adams
  • Availability of mifepristone and misoprostol in Oregon pharmacies

    Contraception
    1. Rachel Mnuk
    2. Kaitlin Schrote
    3. Bharti Garg
    4. Uma Doshi
    5. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Contraception Use by Title X Clients and Clients of Other Providers, 2015–2019

    Women's Health Issues
    1. Rebecca Wells
    2. Nicole K. Smith
    3. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Decomposition analysis of racial and ethnic differences in receipt of immediate postpartum, long-acting, reversible, and permanent contraception

    Contraception
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Thomas H.A. Meath
    3. Kelsey Watson
    4. Ashley Daly
    5. K. John McConnell
    6. Hyunjee Kim
  • Diagnosis of Perinatal Mental Health Conditions Following Medicaid Expansion to Include Low-Income Immigrants

    JAMA Network Open
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Ann Martinez-Acevedo
    3. Menolly Kaufman
    4. Erin C. Nacev
    5. Kristen Mackiewicz-Seghete
    6. K. John McConnell
  • Differences between rural and urban residence in the detection and treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

    AJOG Global Reports
    1. Erin C. Nacev
    2. Ann C. Martinez Acevedo
    3. Menolly Kaufman
    4. Megan F. Fuerst
    5. Jacquelyn M. Knapp
    6. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Expanding comprehensive pregnancy care for Emergency Medicaid recipients

    American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM
    1. Kimberley A. Bullard
    2. Alyssa Hersh
    3. Aaron B. Caughey
    4. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Hospital Encounters Within 1 Year Postpartum Across Insurance Types, Oregon 2012-2017

    Medical care
    1. Menolly Kaufman
    2. K. John McConnell
    3. Maria I. Rodriguez
    4. Kalera Stratton
    5. Dawn Richardson
    6. Jonathan M. Snowden
  • Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Preventing Severe Maternal Morbidity

    Obstetrics and gynecology
    1. Kimberley A. Bullard
    2. Shaalini Ramanadhan
    3. Aaron B. Caughey
    4. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Impact of the Dobbs decision on abortion services from a large tertiary center in Oregon

    Contraception
    1. Ava D. Mandelbaum
    2. Erin C. Nacev
    3. Megan F. Fuerst
    4. Alyssa Colwill
    5. Shaalini Ramanadhan
    6. Maria Rodriguez
  • Medicaid Policy Change and Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception

    JAMA Health Forum
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Thomas H.A. Meath
    3. Kelsey Watson
    4. Ashley Daly
    5. K. John McConnell
    6. Hyunjee Kim
  • Not all Medicaid for pregnancy care is delivered equally

    PloS one
    1. Jonas J. Swartz
    2. Menolly Kaufman
    3. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Parental Leave in Neurosurgery

    Neurosurgery Practice
    1. Olabisi Sanusi
    2. Richard U. Kalu
    3. James Obayashi
    4. Nathan Beird
    5. Theresa Williamson
    6. Mathew Geltzeiler
    7. Brian V. Nahed
    8. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Trends in interstate abortion travel to Oregon following the Dobbs court decision

    Contraception
    1. Megan Fuerst
    2. Ava Mandelbaum
    3. Erin Nacev
    4. Maria Rodriguez
  • Twelve-Month Contraceptive Supply Policies and Medicaid Contraceptive Dispensing

    JAMA Health Forum
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Thomas H.A. Meath
    3. Ashley Daly
    4. Kelsey Watson
    5. K. John McConnell
    6. Hyunjee Kim
  • Association of intrapartum severe maternal morbidity with receipt of postpartum contraception among Medicaid recipients

    Contraception
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Ann Martinez Acevedo
    3. Stephanie Renfro
    4. Julia Tasset
    5. Oluwadamilola Sosanya
    6. Aaron B. Caughey
  • Association of State Funding for Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care With Use of Contraception Among Latina Patients and Non-Latina Patients in Oregon

    JAMA Health Forum
    1. Megan A. Cohen
    2. Emily R. Boniface
    3. Megan Skye
    4. Rachel Linz
    5. Nisreen Pedhiwala
    6. Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Catholic sole community hospitals are associated with decreased receipt of postpartum permanent contraception among Medicaid recipients

    Contraception
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Ashley Daly
    3. Thomas Meath
    4. Kelsey Watson
    5. K. John McConnell
  • Concern that contraception affects future fertility

    Contraception: X
    1. Annalisa Watson
    2. Jennifer Yarger
    3. Erica Sedlander
    4. Josephine Urbina
    5. Kristine Hopkins
    6. Maria I. Rodriguez
    7. Liza Fuentes
    8. Cynthia C. Harper
  • Contraceptive services in Oregon's state-funded network during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Contraception
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Megan Skye
    3. Kaitlin Schrote
    4. Rachel Linz
    5. Nisreen Pedhiwala
    6. Abigail Liberty
    7. Megan Fuerst
    8. Alison B. Edelman
  • Geographic Variation In Effective Contraceptive Use Among Medicaid Recipients In 2018

    Health Affairs
    1. Maria Rodriguez
    2. Thomas H.A. Meath
    3. Kelsey Watson
    4. Ashley Daly
    5. Kyle Tracy
    6. K. John McConnell
  • Postpartum Expansion of Emergency Medicaid is Associated with Increased Receipt of Recommended Glycemic Screening and Care

    Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Megan Skye
    3. Ann Martinez Acevedo
    4. Jonas J. Swartz
    5. Aaron B. Caughey
    6. K. John McConnell
  • Postpartum Hospital Readmissions With and Without Severe Maternal Morbidity Within 1 Year of Birth, Oregon, 2012–2017

    American journal of epidemiology
    1. Menolly Kaufman
    2. K. John McConnell
    3. Suzan L. Carmichael
    4. Maria I. Rodriguez
    5. Dawn Richardson
    6. Jonathan M. Snowden
  • The association of federal Medicaid abortion funding restrictions with adverse obstetric outcomes among United States Medicaid recipients

    Contraception
    1. Maria I. Rodriguez
    2. Thomas H.A. Meath
    3. Ashley Daly
    4. Kelsey Watson
    5. K. John McConnell