My Mission
To educate young women and girls on topics related to their reproductive health in an effort to promote greater self-awareness (in everyday life), self-esteem (in relational encounters), and greater self-advocacy (specifically in interactions with medical providers)
My Bias
Women should have access to information that allows them to understand their bodies, protect their bodies, plan or manage their periods or pregnancies, and do all of this free of judgment, coercion, and marginalization. It’s time to change the cycle.
My Story
Dr. Charis Chambers was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Crandall and Charlette Chambers. She grew up in a variety of places including Annapolis, MD; Hendersonville, TN; and eventually Phenix City, AL where she attended middle and high school. Her love for shattering stereotypes began in high school where Charis was president of the science club, homecomingqueen, salutatorian, and captain of her school’s national champion cheer team.
Charis attended Spelman College in Atlanta, GA where she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. in the spring of 2008. She graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2010 with a degree in Biology. She attended medical school at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and completed OBGYN Residency at Greenville Memorial Hospital in 2018 where she was inducted into the prestigious medical society of Alpha Omega Alpha. She is currently in fellowship training for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology with plans to join her father and brother in their OBGYN practice back home in Phenix City, AL / Columbus, GA.
She launched her social media platform, The Period Doctor, in the summer of 2019, after recognizing an unmet need for medically accurate women’s health information and minority physician representation in social media outlets.
She attributes her tenacity and resilience to her late mother who taught her again and again to speak up, laugh off the little things, and love without apology.