Women's Primary Care Providers

Sheenagh Bodkin, MD is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and a board-certified obesity medicine physician at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. A clinical assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Dr. Bodkin received a medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. She completed her residency at Boston Medical Center, where she also served as chief resident in ambulatory care.

She is a member of the American Medical Association and the Rhode Island Medical Society. Dr. Bodkin is board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine. Her clinical and research interests include women’s health issues, healthy weight management, and intuitive eating.

Neetu Mulchandani, MD is an attending physician in women’s primary care. She received both a master's degree and medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed her residency in general internal medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Mulchandani is board eligible in internal medicine. Her clinical interests include patient empowerment through education and behavior change, healing in the medical encounter, and nutrition and mindfulness-based interventions to attenuate disease and promote wellness. She earned a certificate in plant-based nutrition through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies.

Lynn C. Pesta, MD is an attending physician in women’s primary care at the Women's Medicine Collaborative. Pesta received a medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, MI. She completed her residency at Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont in Burlington, VT. 

Pesta is board certified in internal medicine. She was the 2015 recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching award and 2015 recipient of the Richard Bouchard Primary Care Excellence award from the University of Vermont. Her clinical interests include preventive medicine and cancer screening.

Mariah Stump, MD is an attending physician in women’s primary care. She is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Stump received a medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, VT. She completed her residency at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Stump also earned a master in public health degree with a concentration in women’s and reproductive health and adolescent health from Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

Stump is board eligible in internal medicine. She is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and the Rhode Island Medical Society. Stump completed the International Structural Acupuncture Course for Physicians at Harvard University through Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Medicine. She is certified to practice acupuncture through the Rhode Island Medical Board. She is also a certified yoga instructor in vinyasa yoga.

Her clinical interests include yoga, mindfulness, acupuncture, disease prevention, lifestyle medicine, and women's primary care.  She is fluent in English and is conversational in Spanish.

Rupal Thakor, MD, is an attending physician in women’s primary care. She received a medical degree from Gujarat University, B.J. Medical College & Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, and completed her residency in family medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Virginia.

Thakor is certified by the American board of family medicine. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association. Her areas of interest include the patient-centered medical home model of care, quality improvement, women's health, screening and preventive medicine, adolescent health, and preconception care. She is fluent in English, Hindi, and Gujarati.

Iris Tong, MD, FACP, is an attending physician in women’s primary care at the Women’s Medicine Collaborative. An assistant professor of medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Tong received a medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York, and completed her residency in general internal medicine at he Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she also served as chief resident. Tong is board certified in internal medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.