Meet Dr. Dawn Sears.
Gastroenterologist, medical leader, speaker, coach, and founder of GutGirlMD Consulting.
"I want GutGirlMD Consulting to become the most trusted woman-owned business specializing in stopping the hemorrhage of women physicians from healthcare."
— Dr. Dawn Sears, MD
Dr. Dawn Sears is a highly successful gastroenterologist and medical leader with decades of experience creating programs that engage physicians, build authentic supportive communities, improve retention, reduce burnout, and help physicians thrive.
Her work focuses on helping healthcare organizations retain women physicians by creating psychologically safe cohorts and real strategies that support engagement, leadership, and belonging.
Physicians need more than resilience training. They need community, strategy, purpose, mastery, and autonomy.
Dr. Sears helps physicians remember they always have choice — and that realization releases tension and allows creativity to bloom.
What shapes the work.
Her Story
A gastroenterologist who watched too many talented women physicians walk away — and decided to do something about it.
Why Retention Matters
Women physicians face unique pressures. Solving for retention requires acknowledging — not ignoring — that reality.
Clinical & Leadership Experience
Decades of medical practice, department leadership, and physician engagement program design.
Research & Publications
Published in PLOS ONE and other peer-reviewed venues. Featured on the KevinMD podcast and other media.
Speaking Experience
Keynotes and workshops for hospitals, conferences, physician leadership teams, and healthcare boards.
Approach to Coaching & Consulting
Live, physician-led, relational, and customized. Never a generic module program.
A physician's voice, executive-grade strategy.
- Gastroenterologist · Decades of clinical practice
- Creator of the Women Physician Cohort Coaching program
- Published in PLOS ONE
- KevinMD Podcast guest
- Speaker for healthcare conferences and physician leadership teams
- Designer of cohort programs with measurable outcomes