I’m Dr. Linda Burke — board-certified OB-GYN, Stanford-certified AI health strategist, and clinical informaticist. I’ve spent over 30 years in delivery rooms, watching the system fail mothers in ways that could have been prevented.
Now I use that experience to help hospitals and health leaders redesign care with smarter systems, predictive tools, and clinical judgment that actually saves lives.
THE STORY BEHIND PREGNANCY BLINDSPOTS™
Perinatal Solutions was born from a simple yet devastating observation: clinicians documented risk factors but failed to act on them in time to prevent harm.
After 20+ years reviewing maternal mortality cases as a federal subject expert, Dr. Linda Burke identified a pattern. The problem wasn’t always a lack of knowledge or unavailable information; it was also systematic cognitive failures that caused clinicians to miss, dismiss, or delay acting on documented warning signs.
THE TURNING POINT
In 2020, the preventable death of Dr. Chaniece Wallace, a pediatric chief resident in Indiana, crystallized Dr. Burke’s mission. Despite multiple documented warning signs of severe preeclampsia, cognitive blind spots in her care team led to fatal delays in recognition and intervention.
“I observed significant knowledge gaps and systematic mismanagement in her care,” Dr. Burke recalls. “It wasn’t that her providers were incompetent; they were experiencing the same cognitive failures I’d seen in hundreds of other cases. The pattern was clear. The solution wasn’t more protocols. It was the detection and disruption of these blind spot patterns.”
FROM FEDERAL REVIEWS TO INNOVATION
The Foundation (2006-2020):
Dr. Burke founded Perinatal Solutions LLC in 2006 while serving as a federal subject matter expert reviewing medical malpractice cases under the Federal Tort Claims Act. This work, analyzing 200+ maternal mortality and morbidity cases over two decades, revealed systematic patterns that would later become the foundation for the Pregnancy Blindspots™ framework.
She authored The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy (2008) and pioneered early telemedicine algorithms for prenatal care (2001), predating the modern telehealth revolution.
Clinical Informatics Training (2013):
Recognizing that solving systematic cognitive failures required technical expertise, Dr. Burke enrolled in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Clinical Informatics program. Her motivation: learn to write algorithms that could help pregnant women recognize warning signs of preeclampsia.
The Pivot to AI-Powered Detection (2020-2023):
Dr. Burke earned AI certification and recognized its intersection with electronic health records. AI tools could identify cognitive blind-spot patterns that human oversight consistently missed.
Health Futurist Leadership (2025):
Dr. Burke completed Stanford University School of Medicine’s inaugural Health Futurist Advanced Leadership Training program and earned certification.
Above every title I hold, my most meaningful role is being a mother to my two sons, K & M – the heart of my life, and my daily reminder of why compassionate, safer care matters.
This is a photograph of my great-great-grandmother, Mariah Jones, born in Dinwiddie, Virginia, in 1850. She was an enslaved midwife who delivered babies well into the 1930s, helping women bring life into a world that denied her freedom.
Her mother, Emerline, born in 1810, was also a midwife. For generations, these women served their communities with strength, intuition, and compassion long before modern medicine gave them recognition.
Their legacy runs through me. I often say that “birthing is in my DNA.” It is not just a calling. It is a birthright. Yet, this lineage also carries loss. My grandmother died in childbirth, a tragedy that I never witnessed but have always felt. I never had the chance to meet her, but her absence became part of my story. It is one of the reasons I became an OB-GYN.
Every patient I care for, every system I help improve, and every preventable death I work to stop is, in some way, a tribute to her—and to the generations of women before me who brought life into the world against all odds. Their hands delivered life. Mine now work to protect it through data, technology, and the relentless pursuit of safer, more equitable maternal care.
Perinatal Solutions exists to prevent maternal harm
through the fusion of data, access, and OB-GYN expertise.
Our goal is to stop tragedies before they occur,
especially in vulnerable communities.
Maternal morbidity and mortality are not just tragic —
they’re expensive. A single maternal-child pair morbidity condition
can cost the system over $8,600 in excess costs.
That adds up to $32.3 billion annually in avoidable harm.
We are here to reduce that number
and protect every mother, every time.
