Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MD, MPH, MS is Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer at Indiana University Health, as well as Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. She practices obstetrics & gynecology in the Indiana University Health and Eskenazi system.

Dr. Tucker Edmonds is a board-certified OB/GYN who received her bachelor and medical degrees from Brown University and completed her OB/GYN residency at Duke University. She received her Master’s in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health, and Master’s in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the Indiana State Legislative Chair for the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Dr. Tucker Edmonds specializes in social and cultural disparities in medicine, clinical ethics, and reproductive justice. Her research examines the manner in which social and cultural factors influence patient-provider communication and decision-making when faced with ethically complex and uncertain outcomes in the setting of extreme prematurity. The overarching goal of her program of research is to facilitate patient-centered care and shared decision-making between providers, patients, and families making end-of-life decisions at the very beginning of life for periviable (extremely premature) infants, and at the end of life in minority populations.

Selected Guest Lectures: 

• "Dying Prematurely: Death and Dying in the African American Community", Penn Bioethics Seminar Series

• "Maternal Mortality and Medical Mysogynoir", National Academy of Medicine

• "OB Ethics: On trade-offs, Personhood, and Reproductive Justice", Indiana University School of Medicine

• "Ethics and Reproductive Medicine", Charles W. Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics

Research Interests:

• Decision Making in Extreme Prematurity
• Reproductive Justice
• Social and Cultural Disparities in Medicine
• Race and End of Life Care

Selected Publications:

• Bode LM, Jager SM, Panoch J, Hoffman SM, Laitano T, Kavanaugh K, Tucker Edmonds B. Mode of delivery in the context of periviable birth: Informed deference and shared decision-making. J Perinatol. 2023.
• Bolakale-Rufai IK, Knapp SM, Johnson AE, Brewer L, Mohammed S, Addison D, Mazimba S, Tucker-Edmonds B, Breathett K. Association Between Race, Cardiology Care, and the Receipt of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2023.
• Tucker Edmonds B, Hoffman SM, Laitano T, McKenzie F, Panoch J, Litwiller A, DiCorcia MJ. Evaluating Shared Decisions-Making in Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling Using Objective Structured Clinical Examinations. Women's Health Rep (New Rochelle). 2022.

Additional Publications: PubMed

Funding:

Selected Grants:

A Pilot Decision Support Tool for Neonatal Resuscitation Decision-making: Periviable GOALS (PI)

$3,687,872 from the AHRQ 9/2021-8/2026

Description: The Periviable GOALS (Getting Optimal Alignment around Life Support) decision support tool (DST) is meant to facilitate informed shared decision-making regarding neonatal resuscitation for families facing the threat of a periviable delivery (deliveries occurring between 22 0/7 - 25 6/7 weeks gestational age). It is designed for parents to review independent of their clinician, and is intended to supplement, not replace, clinician counseling. The focus of the DST is the provision of patient-centered outcomes information and assistance with values clarification regarding neonatal outcomes. This is a multisite, randomized controlled trial to test the effect of the Periviable GOALS DST on shared decision-making and decision satisfaction. This project is funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

HEAL-R Partnership: Health Equity Advancing through Learning Health System Research Partnership (PI)  

$3,133,871 from Cook Medical 01/2022-12/2025

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Post-Roe IN: An Ethnography of Patient Treatment During Pregnancy Losses, Termination, & Complications Greenwall Foundation (Co-I)

$128,373 from the Greenwall Foundation 1/2023-06/2024

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Selected Activities:

• Diversity Council, Indiana University School of Medicine; 2013 - Present.
• Member, Indiana State Department of Health Committee on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome / Perinatal Substance Use; 2015 - Present.
• Developer / Leader, Program to Launch URiM Success (PLUS), Indiana University School of Medicine; 2018 - Present.
• Committee on Government Affairs, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology; 2019 - Present.
• Committee on Arrangements for the Annual Advocates for Equity Panel, Society for Medical Decision-Making; 2019 - Present.
• Member, KL2 Review Committee, Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute; 2020 - Present.