Justina Trott, M.D.

Justina Trott, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Executive and Medical Director of Women’s Health Services, a nonprofit organization designated as a National Community Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She received her B.A. in chemistry from New York University and her M.D. from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, and she completed residency training in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and a core faculty member for the Northern New Mexico Family Practice Residency Program.

Dr. Trott is the immediate past president and a current board member of the American College of Women’s Health Physicians, an organization committed to translating the latest sex- and gender-specific research into clinical practice, and a board member of RIOS Net (Research Involving Outpatient Settings Network), an innovative practice-based research network designed specifically to conduct research that has direct relevance to the Southwest’s diverse and medically underserved populations. In 2006 she was appointed chair of the New Mexico Governor’s Women’s Health Advisory Council by Governor Bill Richardson. In September 2007 she was elected to the American College of Physicians New Mexico Chapter Council and appointed to the New Mexico legislative task force to create a cultural competency curriculum for health professionals.