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Marcelle I. Cedars, MD

(President)

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Barbara A. Goff, 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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Paola A. Gehrig, MD

(Treasurer)

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Nazema Y. Siddiqui, MD, MHSc

(Assistant Treasurer)

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Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, MBA 

(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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Anthony C. Sciscione, DO

(Member at Large)

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William Grobman, MD, MBA

(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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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.

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.

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.  

Paola A. Gehrig

Dr. Paola Gehrig is a gynecologic oncologist and chair of UVA’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She came to UVA in June 2022 after a long career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was professor and chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology and most recently appointed the executive medical director of the North Carolina Women’s Hospital. In her practice as a gynecologic oncologist, Dr. Gehrig’s focus is providing compassionate, patient-centered care that respects each individual’s goals. She is an expert in advanced laparoscopy and robot-assisted surgery. In addition to patient care, Dr. Gehrig has mentored more than 30 medical students, residents, fellows, and faculty on research projects. She has received multiple teaching awards from medical students and OB/GYN residents. UNC Health Care also honored her with leadership awards six years in a row, and in 2015 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UVA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology where she completed her residency.

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).

Ronald D. Alvarez

Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, MBA, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and holds the Betty and Lonnie S. Burnett Endowed Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1987 and his fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology in 1990, both at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He received his M.B.A. in 2013 from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He remained at UAB after completion of his fellowship and rose to the rank of Professor and Ellen Gregg Shook Culverhouse Chair in the UAB Division of Gynecologic Oncology, for which he served as Director from 2003-2014. He was also Vice-Chair of the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology until his transition to VUMC in 2016. He was the recipient of several NCI and other industry funded grants in support of his research in gene therapeutics for ovarian cancer and cervical cancer vaccines, including projects funded by the UAB Ovarian Cancer SPORE and the Johns Hopkins/UAB Cervical SPORE. In 2013, he served as President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. He now serves as Chair of the NRG Oncology Research Strategy Committee. He was Director of Gynecologic Oncology Division of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2014-2018 and now serves as an ABOG Treasurer. Dr. Alvarez and his wife of 5 years, Denise, have 3 married children and 7 grandchildren.

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.


Anthony C. Sciscione

Anthony Sciscione DO is the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and the OB/Gyn residency Program Director at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. He is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jefferson Medical College. He has served as District III ACOG chair and is the current President-elect for the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine.  He previously served on the board of the USMLE and chair of the OB Gyn step II committee.  He served as a Principle Investigator for the MFMU of the NICHD for 5 years and has a current research project on maternal activity and preterm birth through the NICHD.  He has had multiple grants including currently as a co-investigator in the COMFORT trial through PCORI. His primary research interest has been induction of labor.  He is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gray Journal) and was previously an associate editor for Obstetrics and Gynecology (Green Journal).   He is a co-author of the Gabbe study guide and an Editor for the Ferri’s Clinical Advisor.  He is currently co-writing a textbook of first trimester ultrasound.  

 

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.