Dr. Hardy serves as a role model and mentor to medical students, residents and her peers in her clinical activities daily. She is the co-director of the Ryan Program in our department. This program functions to offer evidence-based abortion and contraception care for residents and medical students. Dr. Hardy-Fairbanks organizes and maintains the family planning resident rotation (first and second year residents) to ensure that an adequate educational experience is offered to all residents. She encourages residents and medical students to participate in family planning services up to their level of comfort. And strive to ensure that residents and medical students never feel pressured to participate in anything that makes them uncomfortable. Learners are able to increase or decrease their involvement in family planning activities throughout their education. It is this unique openness that allows her to be successful in integrating family planning into multiple different areas of education and patient care. Dr. Hardy-Fairbanks serves on the resident education committee and is an active mentor for residents and medical students. She participates in the AMWA mentorship program. She engages in extensive mentorship for both residents and medical students who seek to do research in her areas of expertise. She also mentors residents and medical students for their professional and academic pursuits. She has mentored several medical students successfully through the CCOM research distinction tract. Along with her co-mentor (Colleen Stockdale), Dr. Hardy-Fairbanks has successfully received seven Summer Research Fellowship grants through the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) since 2015. These summer student research grants allow students to participate in one of our research projects as well as participate in clinical shadowing. CCOM students often continue to participate in research following their summer fellowship. Dr. Hardy-Fairbanks is responsible for grant writing, study design, IRB application, database writing, and student supervision. She also performs data analysis for the purposes of their poster/oral presentations at the annual CCOM Research Day. In 2019, a project on the accuracy of vaginal pH testing was awarded the Excellence in Clinical Research in OBGYN award at CCOM research day. This study was subsequently published in the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease.