Dr. Wylie is the Founding Director of The Collaborative for Women’s Environmental Health at Columbia University, the Virgil G. Damon Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University Medical Center, and serves as the Vice Chair of Faculty Development and Mentoring in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Columbia.

Dr. Wylie’s clinical practice encompasses the full range of maternal-fetal medicine including prenatal diagnosis and ultrasound, high risk obstetric consultations, caring for pregnant women hospitalized during pregnancy, and deliveries. A unique contribution that she provides to women and their families is consultation about how environmental exposures can impact the health of the pregnancy and developing fetus. These potential toxins include lead, mercury, pesticides, phenols, phthalates, and perfluorinated alkyl substances. She currently serves as the obstetric consultant to the Region 1 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit Network (PEHSU). After 15 years in the Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals, most recently as Chief of MFM at BIDMC, she was recruited back to Columbia to establish an initiative focused on reproductive environmental health. A significant priority is a focus on climate change, sustainability and reproductive health both in NYC, the United States and internationally through research, education of clinicians, and advocacy with community organizations and policymakers.

Dr. Wylie’s research has focused on global maternal/child health with a particular interest in environmental exposures during pregnancy in international settings such as smoke from cooking fires, pesticides from subsistence farming, and climate-related factors like heat and air pollution. She has ongoing projects in Ghana, Tanzania, and Pakistan. She is co-Principal Investigator for the Columbia University/Aga Khan University Research Unit in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Global Network for Women’s and Children’s Health Research. She has held national leadership roles including Chair of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)’s Global Heath Committee, Chair of the Foundation for SMFM’s Queenan Fellowships for Global Health, and served on the Board for the SMFM, on the Annual Program Committee, and will chair the 2025 SMFM Annual meeting.