Dr. Katie Casper and Dr. Michelle Debink

Dr. Katie Casper is Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident at the University of Utah. Her clinical interests include Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Rural Medicine, Family Planning, Patient Education. When not at work she enjoys cooking and trying new foods as well as spending time relaxing with her husband and cat. In the warmer months, she enjoys watersports and spending time on the water.

Michelle Debbink, MD, PhD, is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and her clinical interests include providing prenatal care for patients with high-risk or rare medical conditions during pregnancy, including diabetes and congenital heart disease, abnormal placenta conditions such as placenta previa or placenta accreta spectrum disorders, and fetal and genetic conditions such as twin and higher order multiple pregnancies and anomalies. She provides services including vaginal and cesarean delivery, complicated cesarean delivery and cesarean hysterectomy, cervical cerclage, intrauterine transfusion (IUT) and percutaneous umbilical cord sampling (PUBS), and amniocentesis. Her research focuses on racial, ethnic, and geographic inequities and disparities in perinatal outcomes, including low birthweight, small for gestational age, maternal morbidity and maternal mortality. Dr. Debbink is particularly interested in how social structures, neighborhood factors, and health policy produce and reinforce perinatal health disparities among Black, Indigenous and other people of color. Dr. Debbink received her bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Health Policy from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Debbink completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at the University of Michigan as well. She moved to Salt Lake in 2017 to complete her Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Utah. The privilege of caring for others in important, vulnerable, and life-changing moments is Dr. Debbink’s highest honor. She looks forward to building supportive relationships with birthing folks from all over Utah that are based on mutual trust and respect. Through research and practice, Dr. Debbink seeks to collaborate on efforts to reinforce and build resilient communities for all pregnant and parenting folks and their families. When Dr. Debbink’s not enjoying clinical medicine or research, she spends her time with family and her dogs, reading, hiking, skiing, camping, stargazing, playing board games, or trying to find some quiet time near the water somewhere.