Medical Director
Dare Bioscience
San Diego, CA, United States
Dr. Thurman joined Daré in 2022 and serves as a medical officer. Prior to joining Daré, she was a full-time, practicing, board-certified OBGYN in the US Navy and at academic training centers for the past 24 years. She most recently worked for Eastern Virginia Medical School (CONRAD) where she was the site principal investigator or sub-investigator on over 125 clinical trials. She also served as the Director of the EVMS Clinical Research Center. During her 24 years in academic medicine, her research focused on research and development of women’s health products (contraceptives, menopausal products, vaginal health, bacterial vaginosis, HIV and HSV2 prevention products and multi-purpose prevention technologies). She has extensive experience in the planning, protocol development, operations, patient care and data interpretation/presentation of pharmacokinetic, modeled pharmacodynamics, safety, acceptability, efficacy and end user/stakeholder research trials.