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Barbara A. Goff, MD

(President)

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Melissa A. Simon, MD

(President Elect)

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Abimbola O. Famuyide, MBBS

(Secretary)

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Stephanie Teal, MD, MPH

(Assistant Secretary)

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Nazema Y. Siddiqui, MD, MHSc

(Treasurer)

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Judette Louis, MD, MPH

(Assistant Treasurer)

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Marcelle I. Cedars, MD

(Immediate Past President)

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Donald Dudley, MD

(AAOGF President)

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Samantha Butts, MD, MSCE

(Member at Large)

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William Grobman, MD, MBA

(Member at Large)

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Warner Huh, MD

(Member at Large)

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NON-VOTING MEMBERS

Wanda K. Nicholson, MD, MPH, MBA

(AAOGF Vice President)

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Donna D. Johnson, MD

(AAOGF Secretary-Treasurer)

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William H. Catherino, MD, PhD

(Chair, AAOGF Scholar Committee)

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Barbara Goff

Dr. Barbara Goff received her MD at the University of Pennsylvania and did her residency at Harvard Medical School.  She did her gynecologic oncology fellowship at the Massachusetts General hospital and then joined the faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle.  She became the director of the division of gynecologic oncology at the University of Washington and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in 2005.  Her major research focus has been in early detection of ovarian cancer, surgical skills training, novel therapeutics, survivorship and quality outcomes research in the treatment of ovarian cancer. Dr. Goff is an active gynecologic oncologist performing large numbers of surgical cases, administering chemotherapy, and supportive care for gynecologic cancer patients. Dr. Goff became the president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology and the Foundation for Gynecologic Oncology in 2013.  She served as a Deputy Editor for the journal Gynecologic Oncology for 15 years and she is the Editor of the Gynecologic Oncology section of Up to Date. In the Fall of 2017, she became the Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Washington.  Dr. Goff is the PI of the UW K-12 WRHR training grant. She leads a group of over 120 clinicians and scientists and oversees the only academic obstetrics and gynecology residency in the WWAMI  (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) region.

Melissa A. Simon

Melissa A. Simon, MD MPH  is the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is also the Founder and Director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation and the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative.  She serves as the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement.

She is an expert in implementation science, women’s health across the lifespan, minority health, community engagement and health equity. 

She has been recognized with numerous awards for her substantial contribution to excellence in health equity scholarship, women’s health and mentorship, including her recent election to the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians.  She has received the Presidential Award in Excellence in Science Mathematics and Engineering Mentorship and is a Presidential Leadership Scholar. She is a former member and current consultant to the US Preventive Services Task Force and serves on the NIH Office of Research in Women’s Health Advisory Committee. 

Abimbola Famuyide

Abimbola Famuyide, MBBS, is Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota and a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon. Dr. Famuyide serves as chair of Mayo Clinic Rochester Personnel Committee and Vice Chair of Peoples and Culture Committee.  He is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London. He is the President-elect of the Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology (SASGOG) and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), is a member of their qualifying examination committee and an oral board examiner.  He is on the governing council of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). Dr. Famuyide is an Editorial Board member of the Green Journal (Obstetrics and Gynecology) and the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology (JMIG). He has published peer-reviewed manuscripts, and non-peer reviewed articles in leading journals including the Harvard Business Review. His areas of interest include outcomes research in abnormal uterine bleeding,  benign gynecologic endoscopic surgery and obstetric safety.

Stephanie Teal, MD, MPH

Dr. Stephanie Teal is the Arthur H. Bill Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Obstetrician/Gynecologist-in-Chief of University Hospitals Health System.  She leads an outstanding team of physicians, midwives, nurses and scientists who are dedicated to safe motherhood and care for women across the lifespan.  She was previously Professor with Tenure of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Clinical Science at University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she served as Division Chief and Fellowship Director of Complex Family Planning, and Principal Investigator of the NICHD Contraceptive Clinical Trials Network.  Her clinical and research interests center on pregnancy ambivalence and contraceptive choices, family planning decision-making by adolescents, and contraception use by women with complex medical conditions. Dr. Teal has led many Phase II and Phase III studies of novel contraceptive delivery technologies, contraceptive steroids, and selective progesterone receptor modulators.  She is a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at UC San Diego, and completed her Fellowship in Complex Family Planning and Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology at Columbia University.  

Nazema Y. Siddiqui, MD, MHSc

Dr. Nazema Siddiqui is an Associate Professor in the Department of OB/GYN, Division of Urogynecology & Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery (URPS) and Division of Reproductive Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Siddiqui completed fellowship training in URPS, and a Master of Health Science in Clinical Research at Duke in 2010. She is a clinician-scientist with an active Urogynecologic practice spanning the full breadth of the field including complex vaginal and robotic surgery, neuromodulation, and office procedures. She currently serves as the Duke site PI for the NICHD-sponsored Pelvic Floor Disorders Network (PFDN). In addition, she leads the Duke Genitourinary Microbiome research program that conducts innovative translational research focused on how the urinary microbiome changes with aging and its impact on female urologic disorders. Her program has been funded by several institutes including the NIA and NIDDK, and includes trainees spanning gynecology, urology, and data science. Dr. Siddiqui also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS), where she has previously chaired the Program and Scientific Committees. Over the last 5 years she has served as AUGS Liaison to the Women First Research Coalition (WFRC).

Marcelle Cedars

Marcelle Cedars is Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at UCSF. Dr. Cedars has been funded by the NICHD and NIA in her focused areas of research including ovarian aging and assisted reproduction. She is part of a multi-disciplinary team for the current ASPIRE study (Assessing the Safety of pregnancy In the CoRona virus pandEmic) to study the impact of first-trimester exposure to SARS-COv-2 on pregnancy and childhood health. She has served as an Associate Editor for Fertility and Sterility, and Editorial Board for Human Reproduction Update and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Infertility. She was the Chair of the FDA Reproductive Devices Committee. She serves on NICHD council and served on international study sections for Canada and Europe. She is past President of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and current President of the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society.

Donald Dudley

Donald Dudley, M.D., is currently the William T. Moore Professor and Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Virginia.  He completed a B.A. degree in microbiology at the University of Texas in 1976 and then his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1984. Dr. Dudley completed residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Iowa in 1988 followed by a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Utah from 1988-1991. He remained at Utah on faculty until 1999, when he moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio where he served as a professor until 2014.  In 2014 Dr. Dudley moved to the University of Virginia, where he became MFM division director and started the MFM Fellowship.  He is currently the obstetrics co-chair for the Virginia Neonatal Perinatal Collaborative, the CDC-recognized perinatal quality collaborative for Virginia. His special interests are in the immunology of normal and abnormal pregnancy, the pathophysiology of preterm birth, recurrent pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and clinical perinatology.  Dr. Dudley was the President of American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society in 2017 and currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees for the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation.

Samantha Butts, MD

Samantha Butts, MD MSCE is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. In this role, she specializes in treating individuals and couples who require fertility treatments to achieve pregnancy. She has extensive experience providing the full spectrum of state-of-the art infertility treatment services to meet the needs of those seeking care who are single, coupled, LGBTQ, and those whose complex medical histories impact their reproductive health. These treatments include ovulation induction, intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, preimplantation genetic testing and egg and embryo cryopreservation. 

As a reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Butts also has expertise in managing conditions such as amenorrhea, premature ovarian failure, surgical menopause, endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, and uterine fibroids. 

Prior to joining the team at Hershey Medical Center, Dr. Butts spent 15 years as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Reproductive Endocrinology faculty group where she established a busy clinical practice and a successful research program studying factors that influence fertility, early pregnancy and reproductive aging.


William Grobman, MD, MBA

After receiving his BA from Amherst College and his MD from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Grobman undertook training in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern University. During his fellowship training, he completed an MBA in Health Services Administration and Decision Sciences at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. Since his training, Dr. Grobman has been a faculty member at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University and at The Ohio State University, and he is presently a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean of Clinical Research at Brown University Medical School, Chief Scientific Officer of Care New England, and Executive Vice-Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is the Past President of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His research has focused on the prediction and prevention of adverse obstetric outcomes, the optimization of obstetric health services, and the reduction of health disparities. He has been the PI on multiple NIH and foundation grants, authored over 600 peer-reviewed publications, and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Wanda Nicholson

I am a physician dually trained in obstetrics and gynecology and epidemiology, Vice Chair of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and a researcher in perinatal and women’s population health and health equity. My research portfolio has centered on social determinants of health and perinatal diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly postpartum diabetes and CVD prevention. I view women’s health as maternal health and maternal health as an indicator of the social/economic environments where women live and work. I am committed to creating a strategic vision for population health and health equity for organizations and developing and operationalizing research priorities and performance measures for value-based care and better health outcomes.

I am a member of the Board of Directors for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, where I serve as Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Inclusive Excellence, an immediate past member of the Executive Board of the ACOG. I serve as an Associate Editor for the

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Vice Chair/Chair elect of the United States Preventive Services Task Force.

Donna Johnson

Dr. Donna Johnson was born and raised in rural SC. She attended Furman University and received her M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina. She completed her residency and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the University of California Dan Diego. Dr. Johnson is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at MUSC. She serves as a board member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Foundation and AAOGF. Her clinical and basic studies have resulted in the publication of dozens of scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters on topics ranging from severe preeclampsia to immunological disorders that complicate pregnancy. She has won over 20 teaching awards.

William H. Catherino, MD, PhD

Dr. Catherino completed medical and graduate school training at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, residency training at Duke University Medical Center, and fellowship training at the NIH.  He became Board Certified in OB/GYN in 2005, REI in 2007, and has been a Boards Examiner, served on the REI Qualifying and Certifying Division Committee, and ultimately joined the Board of Directors for the Division of REI for ABOG.  He became Research Director in 2004, and has been promoted to Full Professor with Tenure in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at USUHS in 2013.  He is currently the Chair of the Research Division of the Department, where he studies the molecular mechanisms of fibroid development.  He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has been continuously funded. Dr. Catherino is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Fertility and Sterility – Science.  He cares for a wide array of patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.