Serina Floyd, MD, MSPH, FACOG

Dr. Serina Floyd, pronouns she/her, is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist and the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Inc. Dr. Floyd completed her undergraduate work at Emory University before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to complete a dual degree program, receiving both her medical degree and Master of Science in Public Health with a focus on maternal and child health. She completed her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center. 

She has served on the faculty of OB/GYN residency programs and medical staff at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Duke University and Inova Fairfax Medical Campus as well as the faculty at George Washington University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University of Virginia. While at Duke, she established and directed the Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning.

She previously served as a Planned Parenthood practitioner in Falls Church, Virginia before assuming the role of vice president of medical affairs for the organization in 2016.

Dr. Floyd’s area of expertise is sexual and reproductive health, and she is a passionate advocate for reproductive health, rights and justice. Her advocacy efforts focus on increasing access to socially just, equitable and comprehensive reproductive health care. She has been an invited speaker in various settings, has served as an expert on multiple local, regional and national committees, participated in numerous panels, policy briefings, podcasts and media activities, and published articles on topics in this area. 

She has provided expert testimony for numerous pieces of legislation that worked to protect and expand access to reproductive health and advance sexual and reproductive freedom. Her work was recognized in 2024 when she was honored as an unsung hero of reproductive health, receiving the C. Lalor Burdick Award from the National Abortion Federation, an award given to an individual whose work exemplifies excellence, commitment and dedication to the reproductive freedom movement. She was also named one of the Top 50 Women Chief Medical Officers in 2024 and 2025 by Women We Admire.

Dr. Floyd is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), a fellow of Physicians for Reproductive Health, and a member of the Society of Family Planning. She is the co-chair of the ACOG Abortion Access and Training Expert Work Group. She has served as Chair of ACOG’s Committee on Advancing Equity in Obstetric and Gynecologic Health Care, as Chair of the National Medical Committee of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, as a member of ACOG’s Clinical Practice Health Equity Advisory Panel and on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Steering Committee of the Society of Family Planning.

Dr. Floyd has an interest in global health and has done work focusing on maternal and infant mortality in rural Jamaica, Haiti and Ghana.