About Dr Linda
Exposing the Blindspots in Pregnancy Care
Dr. Linda Burke is a board-certified OB-GYN, physician advocate, author, and founder of Pregnancy Blindspots™, a maternal safety framework created to help patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations recognize the warning signs that are too often missed.
Her mission began during residency, after a patient she had cared for experienced a devastating stillbirth. The loss involved a 39-year-old woman in her first pregnancy, and it left Dr. Linda both heartbroken and determined. Since then, she has spent her career working to reduce preventable maternal and fetal harm through clinical care, public health, patient education, advocacy, and systems-level change.
Her first book, The Smart Mother’s Guide® to a Better Pregnancy: How to Minimize Risks, Avoid Complications and Have a Healthy Baby, was recognized by the Preeclampsia Foundation as one of the top prenatal books. She is now completing the second edition, which expands her work beyond traditional pregnancy education to expose the blindspots in maternity care that can place mothers and babies at risk.
Dr. LINDA BURKE, MD, MS, FACOG Women’s Health Expert
Earlier in her public health career, Dr. Linda’s work contributed to measurable improvements in maternal and infant health outcomes, including:
- Reducing the infant mortality rate among Hispanic women from 8.1 to 2.9 during her tenure as a public health physician
- Lowering the overall infant mortality rate from 4.8 to 3.44
- Reducing the stillbirth rate among public health patients by 10% through improved identification of patient risk factors and timely referral to high-risk pregnancy specialists
These early public health outcomes helped shape Dr. Linda’s lifelong commitment to preventing avoidable pregnancy-related harm through education, advocacy, clinical insight, and systems-level change.
Dr. Linda is a former member of the District 12 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Perinatal Morbidity Committee and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She has nearly completed the second edition of her prenatal book, The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy: When “Normal” Isn’t: The Preeclampsia, Postpartum, and Heart Risks Every Woman Should Know.
She is also a certified AI consultant, a Stanford University-trained health futurist, and the founder of Pregnancy Blindspots™, a framework designed to reduce the gap between documented severe risk signals in electronic medical record systems and the failure to provide timely intervention, escalation, and follow-up.
Dr. Linda plans to develop future online courses to help patients, clinicians, and healthcare organizations recognize and close Pregnancy Blindspots™ before preventable harm occurs.
Dr. Linda is a graduate of the City College of New York, Columbia University School of Social Work, Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her ob-gyn residency training at Harlem Hospital and received a post-residency certificate in Clinical Informatics from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Her greatest and most cherished achievement is being the mother of her sons, K & M.