Maria Sophocles, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., N.C.M.P., I.F.

Maria Sophocles has been a practicing ob/gyn for 27 years. She lived and worked in Europe for several years and learned to appreciate the complementary and alternative medical practices which were not taught in her traditional U.S residency in Baltimore. 

When she moved back to the U.S. in 2007, she founded a women’s healthcare practice that was based on listening, and in which patient and clinician are part of shared decision making. 

She is certified by the American Board of ob/gyn. She is a nationally certified menopause practitioner by the North American Menopause Society. She has been recognized for her contributions to gynecology and as such has been named  a fellow of both the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases. 

She was one of the first U.S clinicians to recognize the need for a non-estrogen option to treat vaginal atrophy in breast cancer survivors and pioneered the use of Co2 laser both intravaginally and on the vulva; she has taught clinicians this technology on five continents and has been an advocate for women’s health, reproductive and sexual rights in the U.S and abroad.

She completed a BA in English with honors and distinction from Duke University, attended medical School at Jefferson Medical College and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Greater Baltimore Medical Center.