Lisa is a dual Board Certified Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Nurse-Midwife. She is the owner and provider at Essence. She loves combining her education & training as a medical provider with her training & education as a fitness trainer & health coach! Trained for 7 years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she's been an NP for 15 years & a nurse for 28 years. She has many years of experience working in health care, from working in her father's pharmacy as a teen, to working in intensive care units, to Army nursing overseas, labor & delivery nursing, being a midwife in the hospital and in private practice physicians' offices (including that of Dr Fakih), to being a women's healthcare provider at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Detroit, to being a fitness trainer! She's been a nursing preceptor and leader in many roles, clinical adjunct faculty for University of Michigan, Flint, Maternity Nursing, and a preceptor for Student Nurse Practitioners from Wayne State, Madonna, and South Universities. She is currently a candidate working on certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Dr. Fakih is a Board Certified Obstetrician & Gynecologist, and is the founding physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology Associates. A native Michigander, she received her bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in Pharmaceutical Sciences and her medical degree from Michigan State University. She completed her residency at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor. She is an adjunct clinical professor at Oakland University William Beaumont College of Medicine and at Michigan  State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. During her training, she served as Chief of Education and was awarded for Academic Excellence by St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2011. She has published work in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics pertaining to abnormal uterine bleeding and endometrial ablation procedures. She also collaborates with Essence regarding our practice.