Linda Prine

Linda Prine is an American family physician, writer/author, professor, consultant, cyclist, non-profit founder, and residency teacher best known nationally for her award-winningwork as a reproductive rights and universal health care activist. Dr. Prine is at the forefront of the movement to make abortion care part of family health care. She is the Medical Director of the Reproductive Health Access Project, of which she is a co-founder.

Dr. Prine holds a exceptionally large number of the top positions in her field, including:

• The Director of Women's Health at New York City's Institute for Family Health
• The Founder of the Reproductive Health Access Project and the head of the Reproductive Health Access Project's Family Medicine Reproductive Health Network
• The Head of the Manhattan chapter of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians
• The Director of the Falencki Fellowship in Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy
• A associate clinical professor at New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center
• The founder of the national abortion Access Listserv
• An associate professor of family medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx
• A top advisor at the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Group on Abortion Training and Access.

Moreover, Dr. Prine is a consultant for the Center for Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center. And lastly, Dr. Prine is a teacher at Planned Parenthood.

Dr. Linda Prine's work has been published in dozens of prestigious journals including American Family Physician and American Journal of Public Health. She has been profiled and featured in dozens of publications, including the front page of The New York Times and in Scientific American,CNN, ABC News, Buzz Feed, Jezebel and the Women's Media Center.

Linda Prine is also at the forefront of several bicycle activism movements, serving as the chief medical representative for the Transportation Alternatives advisory board and authoring letters to the Mayor of New York City, representing hundreds of doctors at the New York State Academy of Family Physicians. She has written for The New York Daily News in support for more bike lanes and testified for New York City Council in support of tackling obesity with more and better bike lanes.

Contributions to Family Medicine

Major articles

Abortion Family Practice Safety Study

Linda Prine was the lead author of a 2001-02 study on medical abortion's safety in family practices. The study was the first ever to focus on the outcomes of medical abortion in a family practice setting. It concluded that provision of medical abortion by family physicians is safe, effective, and feasible. The study, first published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice, was considered groundbreaking and subsequently feature in several prestigious publications including Medscape Medical. The conclusion that medical abortion has similar efficacy and patient satisfaction when offered in a family medicine practice or at a reproductive health specialty clinic reassured family physicians that medical abortion can be offered safely in their practices. The study was praised nationwide and cited in several subsequent articles on the same topic.

Study on integrating medical abortion into residency practices

Linda Prine was the lead author of a 2003 article published by Beth Israel's Residency Program in Urban Family Practice, titled ""Integrating medical abortion into a residency practice." The article detailed the most successful methods of integrating medical abortion into a residency practice, using the results of a study that involved the surveying of staff, faculty, residents and colleagues and different ways in which these concerns were addressed. The work was praised as insightful and thorough research that made a significant impact on the future integration of medical abortion into residency practicies. The article was cited in over a dozen future articles on similar topics.

"Hospital Religious Affiliation and Emergency Contraceptive Prescribing Practices"

Linda Prine was the co-author in a 2006 study titled "Hospital Religious Affiliation and Emergency Contraceptive Prescribing Practices." In the study's results, within 7 out of the 9 clinical scenarios, clinicians from non–religiously affiliated institutions would prescribe Emergency Contraception more readily than those in religiously affiliated institutions. The article was published in the American Journal of Public Health and cited in numerous publications inlcuding Canadian Family Physician.

Other notable contributions

• Co-author, "Initiating Hormonal Contraception", published in American Family Physician, 2006.
• Co-author, "Letter to the Editor, Re: Safety of and Contraindications for Use of Intrauterine Devices", published in Association of Family Physicians, 2005.
• Co-author, "Letter to the Editor, Re: Papaya: A Simulation Model for Training in Uterine Aspiration, published in Family Medicine, 2005.
• Co-author, "Letter to the Editor: Does Abortion Training Affect Family Medicine Match Rates?", published in Family Medicine, 2003.

Reproductive Rights Activism

Activism to make abortion part of family health care

Medical abortion and the rise of activism in medicine

Linda Prine was the co-author in an article titled "Medical abortion and activism in medicine," published in the textbook "21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights." The article highlights how the 2000 FDA approval of mifepristone opened the doors for a new age of reproductive rights activism, growing among physicians and medical students in which family physicians are being trained to become abortion providers.