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  • Meet the Team


  • Mary Catherine DeRosa, MD, FACOG, NCMP, CCD leads the Menopause Consultation Program at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

    Her areas of interest include menopause and sexuality. She has more than 30 years of experience in women’s health and is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) as a nationally certified menopause provider, and the International Society of Clinical Densitometry as a certified clinical densitometrist. 

    In 2002 DeRosa founded The Independent Woman, a single specialty gynecology practice in Warwick, Rhode Island. DeRosa received a medical degree from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical College in Syracuse, and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York.


    Cynthia Martufi, FNP-BC, NCMP is a nurse practitioner in women’s primary care at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. She is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and has been certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

    She is also nationally certified by NAMS as a nationally certified menopause provider. Martufi has a background in primary care, dermatology, and college health. Her clinical interests include women’s health issues, menopause and preventive health care. She received a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Rhode Island.

     


    Teresa Lanza di Scalea, MD, PhD is a member of the department of psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital and a psychiatrist with the Menopause Consultation Program at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative.

    Lanza di Scalea received her medical degree from The Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Rome, Italy and earned a master's degree in bioethics at the Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Italy. 

    She completed her residency in adult psychiatry at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy, where she subsequently completed a research doctorate in neuroscience. She then completed an additional adult psychiatry residency training in the U.S. and graduated from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.


    Teri Pearlstein, MD is director of women’s behavioral medicine at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative, and an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is board certified in psychiatry and her clinical interests include depression and anxiety disorders in women, particularly in relation to the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum period and menopause.

    Pearlstein received a medical degree from New York University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.