She has been a faculty member of university OB/GYN departments for 14 years. Dr. Pastore has been the Principal Investigator of four awards from the National Institutes of Health (R03, R21, R01), three of which investigated the role of the FMR1 gene in women with diminished ovarian reserve. She has more than a decade of teaching and mentoring experience with medical residents, medical students, undergraduates, and graduate students. She received her masters and doctoral degrees in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed a 3-year fellowship researching the Women’s Health Initiative and various Maternal-Fetal Medicine topics. Prior to graduate school, she had 10+ years of employment in a Fortune 500 financial services company.