Dr. Neetu Sodhi | Board-Certified OB/GYN | Tarzana, CA
Personalized care for every stage of a woman’s life—from pregnancy and preventive care to menopause, minimally invasive surgery, and intimate wellness
Dr. Neetu Sodhi,
MD FACOG
Board-Certified OB-GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
Bloom Obstetrics & Gynecology
Personalized Women's Healthcare
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana
Chair, Dept. of OB-GYN
About Dr Neetu Sodhi
Dr. Neetu Sodhi is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with a particular focus on perimenopause, menopause, complex midlife women’s health, and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. Her approach is evidence-based, highly individualized, and intentionally holistic: she considers not only the gynecologic problem in front of her, but the patient’s broader health, history, priorities, and the way those pieces interact.
Over time, Dr. Sodhi has become increasingly interested in the parts of medicine that do not fit neatly into a single diagnosis or specialty. A woman’s hormonal health may intersect with cardiovascular risk, bone health, sexual health, sleep, mood, gastrointestinal symptoms, medications, family history, and the recommendations she is already receiving from other physicians. Her role is not to replace those specialists, but to understand the context, identify what matters, and help patients make informed decisions about what should happen next.
She also recognizes that patients approach healthcare differently. Some want to understand every option and every piece of evidence. Others want a clear recommendation. Some are cautious about medication; others are comfortable being proactive. Dr. Sodhi believes good care requires understanding not only a patient’s medical history, but how she thinks about her health, risk, intervention, and the next phase of her life.
In addition to caring for patients at Bloom Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dr. Sodhi works in physician leadership, medical education, clinical research, hospital-based obstetrics, and medico-legal consulting. These different perspectives continue to shape how she thinks about clinical judgment, communication, systems of care, and the responsibility physicians have to help patients make sense of increasingly complex medical information.
Dr. Sodhi is particularly interested in the evolution of women’s healthcare in midlife: moving beyond both the historical under-treatment of menopause and the current flood of one-size-fits-all advice toward care that is thoughtful, evidence-based, and specific to the individual woman.
Dr. Sodhi’s approach is direct, comfortable, and conversational. Meeting her can occasionally feel a little like a job interview, she is genuinely fascinated by what people do and by all the careers she never considered for herself.
That curiosity goes both ways. Dr. Sodhi has always been comfortable sharing pieces of her own life in exchange for being invited into the lives of her patients. Her husband works from home, but still gets inserted into office conversations — from what he is hoping she makes for dinner to where they are traveling next and the everyday negotiations and idiosyncrasies of their married life.
Outside of the office, if not at the hospital, you’ll find her driving fast and loose through the Valley streets in her tiger-striped minivan, with her twin boys and “twin” Dobermans in tow.
Credentials, Leadership & Academic Appointments
Board-Certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist
Fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FACOG)
Fellow, Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
Assistant Clinical Professor
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Western University of Health Sciences
Clinical Research Investigator
Essential Access Health Research Center
NIH Community Clinical Trials Network
Robotic & Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgeon
Obstetrics & Gynecology Medical Expert Witness
Education & Training
Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency, Chief Resident
Kern Medical / UCLA
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO)
Western University of Health Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Master of Public Health (MPH), Health Policy & Health Administration
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
Master of Arts in Medical Sciences (MA)
Boston University School of Medicine
Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology (BS)
University of California, Los Angeles
Known for taking the time to listen, educate, and partner with her patients, Dr. Sodhi believes every woman deserves to understand her healthcare options and feel confident in the decisions she makes. Her approach combines compassionate care with the latest medical evidence to develop individualized treatment plans tailored to each patient’s unique needs, goals, and stage of life.
In addition to caring for patients at Bloom Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dr. Sodhi is committed to advancing women’s healthcare through physician leadership, medical education, clinical research, and quality improvement. She has a particular interest in helping women navigate the hormonal and health changes of midlife, combining evidence-based menopause care with comprehensive gynecology to develop individualized treatment plans that address both immediate symptoms and long-term health. Her leadership and academic roles allow her to bring current research and evolving best practices directly into patient care.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Sodhi enjoys spending time with her family and is the proud mother of twin boys and “twin” dobermans. Whether you are planning a pregnancy, seeking routine preventive care, navigating the transition through perimenopause and menopause, considering surgery, or looking for guidance on complex midlife women’s health, Dr. Sodhi and the Bloom team are committed to providing exceptional, individualized care in a welcoming and supportive environment.
Insights
I’ve been noticing that some of the women with the best access to healthcare still seem to have no one looking at the whole picture. They may have a primary care physician, a gynecologist, other specialists, regular screenings, and plenty of health information, but the decisions increasingly overlap in midlife. Hormones, sleep, body composition, cardiovascular risk, bone health, breast health, mood, cognition, sexual health, and metabolic changes do not exist in separate lanes just because our healthcare system does. I find myself wanting more time to help patients sort through what matters, what does not, and how those pieces fit together—but insurance-based care is generally built around individual visits, diagnoses, and procedures, and doesn’t cover synthesis and coordination across specialties. Increasingly, I think that synthesis may be one of the most valuable things a physician can provide.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
I am very glad menopause is finally being discussed openly. For years, too many women were told to tolerate symptoms that were treatable, and many gynecologists trained during a period when hormone therapy had largely fallen out of routine practice and menopause care received very little emphasis. That left a real gap in expertise just as women began looking for better answers. Now the pendulum has swung quickly in the other direction: menopause is everywhere, and anyone and everyone seems to be presenting themselves as qualified to be a women’s health expert. Women are left trying to sort through an enormous amount of information on their own, while the people they would reasonably expect to trust most—their gynecologists—are not all equally trained or have given enough independent focus to this area. The result is information chaos, not clarity. I suspect the next phase of menopause care will be less about simply raising awareness and more about helping women make sense of what they are hearing, decide what actually applies to them, and know which voices deserve their trust. That is increasingly where I see my role.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
When I started my practice a decade ago, I could barely convince women to consider hormone therapy. Most wanted supplements instead. I stocked them in the office, and eventually watched them expire on the shelf. Now the conversation has almost flipped. Women come in already convinced that hormones are what they need. Sometimes they are right. Sometimes they may not need them at all. Menopause care is not just about prescribing estrogen or progesterone. Women need information, context, and a plan that fits them as a whole person—their symptoms, family history, bleeding history, breast and bone health, cardiovascular risk, medications, stressors, goals, and even their own philosophy about health and aging. Labs may contribute to that picture, but they do not define it. Hormones can be an important tool. The real work is figuring out whether they belong in the plan at all, where they fit, and what else deserves attention.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
I see more patients paying for expensive independent tests to diagnose problems I can often address based on symptoms alone. They end up with complicated results, but no solutions. Worse, the way those tests are marketed online may have convinced them that the physician who never ordered them was missing something—alienating the very person who may actually know what to do next.
I understand why these companies have found an audience. Too many women have felt dismissed by their doctor. But instead of finding the right medical provider, some are turning to impersonal companies that sell the appearance of thoroughness without necessarily providing the judgment or follow-through that should come after the result.
Sometimes the testing itself creates a new problem: incidental findings, anxiety, and a collection of symptomless abnormalities that may never have needed attention in the first place.
What patients need is not simply more data. They need a physician who will listen, understand the context, know what actually matters, and help decide what to do next.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
Women have access to an extraordinary amount of health information now. Podcasts, studies, social media, online forums, and now AI can explain almost any diagnosis or treatment in seconds.
The problem is not finding information anymore. The problem is knowing whether it applies to you.
Even AI can get that wrong. It only knows the version of you that you feed it. It does not automatically know the detail you forgot to mention, the significance of a prior biopsy, the medication interaction you did not think was relevant, or which part of your history should completely change the recommendation.
I see women come in so saturated with competing information that even after choosing a physician and paying to see them, they still struggle to trust a recommendation. I can explain why I think something makes sense, and instead of asking questions about the reasoning, they sometimes pull back and say they want to go look it up first.
Use the tools. Research. Learn. Ask better questions because of what you find. But then find the right physician—someone who understands your history, your risks, your goals, and your priorities well enough to tell you what actually applies to you.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
Holistic care is a major part of how I practice, but I mean it very literally: I treat the person, not an isolated body part.
Your experience with the gastroenterologist may affect how you approach the next recommendation I make. Your gut symptoms may change what I recommend for a gynecologic treatment. Your custody battle may be part of your pelvic pain. Your medications, family history, sleep, stress, cardiovascular risk, and the rest of your health all matter because your gynecologic health does not exist in a void.
It also means recognizing that you are more than a collection of diagnoses. Who you are, how you think about your health, what you are worried about, what you are willing to do, what you want to avoid, and what you want from the next phase of your life all shape the decisions we make.
To me, holistic medicine is not about trying to practice every specialty. It is about understanding enough of the person in front of me to know what matters, how the pieces may connect, and when something belongs outside my lane.
Neetu Sodhi, DO, MPH, FACOG
Board-Certified OB/GYN
NAMS-Certified Menopause Practitioner
Areas of Expertise
Bloom Obstetrics & Gynecology provides comprehensive women’s healthcare with particular expertise in:
Pregnancy & Prenatal Care
Perimenopause & Menopause
Hormone Therapy
Complex Midlife Women’s Health
Comprehensive Gynecology
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery
Labiaplasty & Intimate Wellness
Aesthetic Services
Why Choose Bloom?
A Meaningful Relationship with Your Physician
We believe the foundation of exceptional healthcare is a trusted relationship between physician and patient. At Bloom, we take the time to listen, educate, and partner with you to develop personalized care plans that evolve through every stage of life.
Evidence-Based, Integrative Care
Our approach combines the best of modern, evidence-based medicine with an appreciation for lifestyle, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and other complementary strategies when appropriate. Every treatment plan is individualized to reflect your health goals, values, and overall philosophy toward wellness.
Comprehensive Care Through Every Stage of Life
From adolescence and pregnancy to perimenopause, menopause, and complex midlife women’s health, Bloom provides comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic care with advanced expertise as your healthcare needs evolve.
A Warm, Welcoming Environment
Our thoughtfully designed office offers a calm, comfortable, and private setting where women feel at ease discussing even their most personal health concerns. We believe the environment is an important part of the healing experience.
Compassionate, Personalized Service
Our dedicated team is committed to making every interaction positive—from scheduling your appointment to coordinating your care. We strive to provide timely communication, efficient visits, and an experience centered around kindness, respect, and attention to detail.
A Commitment to Lifelong Learning
Through physician leadership, academic medicine, clinical research, and continual professional development, Dr. Sodhi brings the latest advances in women’s healthcare directly to her patients, ensuring care that is current, thoughtful, and evidence-based.
Community Engagement
We at Bloom participate in local elementary and high school health education, participate as a team in fundraising walks, and collect donations in-office for clothing and feminine hygiene drives for local women’s shelters.
Please call our office to schedule a community lecture, to join our #womaninbloom outreach team or to find out how to donate with us.
Research
Dr Sodhi, in addition to being an avid clinical researcher with several publications and presentations, partners with Essential Access Health in their mission to promote quality sexual and reproductive healthcare for all.
Please call our office to find out more about our current research activities.
Teaching
As Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Western University of Health Sciences, Dr. Sodhi oversees osteopathic medical students in our office and continues to offer her mentorship as they build their medical careers.
