2025 Annual Meeting

This is more than a meeting – it’s a moment for us to gather, strategize, and lead with purpose. Now more than ever, our collective voice matters.

This year’s Annual Meeting comes at a pivotal time for academic medicine and women’s health. Adding to the assault on reproductive justice since the Dobbs decision, we now face unprecedented threats to the very institutions we call home. With continued and accelerating threats to women’s health research, and the core of our focus to increase access and equitability, our program will focus on action, innovation, and advocacy. Join us for an update on research funding – what’s critical and how decisions are made at a national level. We will feature voices from the NIH, NASEM, and government. We will then hear from Dr. Jennifer Elisseff (Johns Hopkins) on advancing interdisciplinary discovery in ob/gyn to move our field forward. We’ll also explore how we can respond to the erosion of support for physician-scientists and early-career investigators.

We will then turn our discussion to urgent external and internal threats to academic medicine. We will lead this session with a talk about the financial implications of cuts in federal grant funding and other federal funds including Medicaid, along with strained state budgets and clinical competition that compromise our ability to balance budgets for AMCs. We will also discuss the growing influence of private equity. Internally, we have several deans, from different AMC models, who will discuss the conflicts that frequently arise between the goals of Academic Health Systems and Schools of Medicine.

And as AI rapidly reshapes our lives, leading experts will examine its implications for clinical practice, medical education, and research. Leaders in the field will discuss how to optimize AI as a tool, as well as, its pitfalls.

REGISTER NOW and attend the American Gynecological & Obstetrical Society Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, September 18-20, 2025! 

 

It will be a pleasure to welcome new members, new speakers and connect with our peers. We look forward to dynamic, thoughtful presentations on the issues impacting women+’s health today, and in the future and we cannot wait to meet up again at the 2025 Annual Meeting.

Warner K. Huh

Warner K. Huh, MD, MSHA is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and holds the Charles E. Flowers, Jr. Endowed Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is also Professor in the Department of Surgery and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health. He was previously the Division Director of Gynecologic Oncology, Vice Chair of Gynecology, and Chief Medical Officer of the UAB Cancer Service Line/O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include screening and prevention of HPV related diseases as well as novel immunotherapeutic approaches for pre-invasive disease of the cervix as well as cervical cancer. He has authored or co-authored over 300 articles in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute Cancer, Clinical Cancer Research, Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology (h-index: 70). Dr. Huh serves as co-PI (MPI) of the Johns Hopkins-UAB-University of Colorado Cervical Cancer Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) program (2P50CA098252-06A1) – one of the most enduring SPORE programs in the NCI. Further, he is PI on a cervical cancer prevention R01 grant through the NCI (5R01CA279021). Dr. Huh serves as a Deputy Editor of Gynecologic Oncology and serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease. He is on the steering committee for the ASCCP treatment guidelines and was co-chair of the ASCCP colposcopy standards effort. He is Past President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and ASCCP. He is currently serves on the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) Division of Gynecologic Oncology. He recently completed the Executive Master of Science in Health Administration (MSHA) Program at UAB (2022-2024). He co-leads OPERATION WIPEOUT- the only state-based cervical cancer elimination effort in the United States.