Courtesy of Helen Marie Mahoney, OBGYN
Curiosity Expert: Helen Marie Mahoney, OBGYN
OBGYN, Private Practitioner and University of Phoenix College of Nursing Instructor
Dr. Helen Marie Mahoney is an instructor in the Nurse Practitioner Education Program in the College of Nursing at the University of Phoenix. Passionately dedicated to her field for over 25 years, Helen is also a staff physician at the Women's Health Clinic in Long Beach, CA and runs a successful Obstetrics and Gynecology private practice. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a winner of the 2010 "Above and Beyond" Award given by the University of Phoenix.
Interested in science from an early age, Helen became fascinated by the human body in college but it wasn't until she was expecting her first child that Helen thought of medicine as a career. She began reading medical books to find answers to her questions about pregnancy and birth and realized that the only way to satisfy her curiosity was to become a doctor herself. As a student and mother in the early 1980s, Helen co-founded the Breastfeeding Education for WIC Program for the Long Beach Department of Public Health, and won the prestigious Robert D. Rhodes Scholarship for Outstanding Biology Student in 1981 while studying at California State University. Before graduating from the University of California Irvine's California College of Medicine in 1986, she won the college's College of Medicine Humanitarian Award.
A dedicated medical practitioner, educator, hobby astronomer and CV radio enthusiast, Helen is inspired by her students' desire to "expand and embrace." "My students have been in the field and they have life experience and they have examples." Both Helen and her husband teach at the University of Phoenix in Long Beach, California.
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