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DR. JULIETTE LOMAX-HOMIER
Age: 63
Lives in: Port St. Lucie
Family: husband Greg,
daughter Nicole
Education: Boston University,
bachelor of arts degree, 1978;
Boston University School of
Medicine, medical degree,
1982; obstetrics and gynecology
residency, Boston City Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1982-1985; administrative chief
resident, Boston City Hospital, 1985-1986; clerkship director
school, American Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology
2007, 2008.
Hobbies: Cooking, biking and gardening
Who inspires you? “My students inspire me to give them
enough tools and trade secrets to be successful.”
Something people don’t know about me: “I grew up playing
Double Dutch jump rope and I secretly wish there was a
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that, most of the locals had never seen a young, black, female
surgeon in the hospital so it took some getting used to. But
gradually I was accepted and fell in love with the community.”
After fulfilling her obligation to the Health Service Corp,
she opened Just Ladies Health Care in 1989.
“I’d often deliver 10 babies in a weekend,” she explained.
“I was solo in my practice for eight years and served as chief
of obstetrics and gynecology at Lawnwood Regional Medical
Center, delivering most of the babies for mothers who came
into the emergency room without an assigned doctor. After
working all day at my practice, I would make two, three trips
to the hospital at night to do C-sections for high-risk women.
It was just too much.”
After trying futilely to get help for this population of
women, she sadly realized that she couldn’t do it by herself
and gave up obstetrics, transitioning into gynecology in 2002.
“It broke my heart but I just couldn’t do it all,” she lamented.
“I remember one night when my daughter was only
nine. I was calling her from the emergency room to make
sure she was home, getting dinner and doing homework. I
realized I was parenting her by phone and missing her youth.
I chose motherhood and family and have never regretted it.
Obstetrics is all or nothing. It takes up 100% of your life and I
wasn’t willing to do that.”
When Florida State University decided to open a regional
medical school at Indian River State College in 2007 for
third- and fourth-year medical students, officials visited local
hospitals to recruit faculty. She applied, but instead of a
faculty position, she was approached about becoming a clerkship
director in obstetrics and gynecology. She accepted and
began recruiting her OB friends as faculty.
“As the clerkship director of OB-GYN I was in charge of
the program for students and recruitment of OB-GYN doctors
in the area as faculty who would actually have one-onone
involvement in teaching the students,” she said. “Each
student is assigned to a doctor and shadows him in patient
consultations, surgeries and deliveries. I’m responsible for
monitoring their progress and making sure students have
access to the doctors.”
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