Get to Know Dr. Fites

I am a board-certified family physician and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. Before medicine, I was a pharmacist, an experience that still shapes how I think about treatment and patient care.

I graduated with honors from St. Louis College of Pharmacy and then Indiana University School of Medicine. My background includes family medicine, public health, hospital medicine, and years spent writing and studying nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Outside of medicine, I have homeschooled my four daughters alongside my husband, my steady high school sweetheart.

Somewhere along the way, perimenopause and midlife hormonal changes came for me. I now know what it feels like to sleep like a brick your whole life and then suddenly not sleep at all. To feel like flat champagne—present, but without the sparkle. To set the thermostat at 65 degrees and still break out in a sweat!

I am not going to pretend I have all the answers. Medicine is complex, physiology is individual, and this field is still evolving. What I can offer is someone who has done the work-clinically and personally—and will sit with you honestly in that complexity.

I don’t have a preferred treatment. I have a preferred process: stay curious, think carefully, and never stay stuck. Every option gets an honest discussion: hormone therapy, non-hormonal treatments, bioidentical and non-bioidentical, compounded and commercial, supplements, lifestyle changes, further evaluation when appropriate, and sometimes pausing before starting something new. No pressure. No agenda. Just information, clearly discussed, so you can decide what fits your body, your goals, and your life.

This is a small intentional menopause and midlife practice. I chose that deliberately. Depth requires time, and time requires limits. You will not feel rushed here. But you will be expected to be an active participant in your own care—because that’s the only way thoughtful medicine really works.

If you’re looking for someone who will tell you what you want to hear, I’m probably not your doctor. If you’re looking for someone who will tell you the truth, stay curious with you, and hold your questions with respect—I might be exactly who you need.