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Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, MBA 

(President)

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Marcelle I. Cedars, MD

(President-Elect)

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Barbara A. Goff, MD

(Secretary)

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Abimbola O. Famuyide, MBBS

(Assistant Secretary)

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Paola A. Gehrig, MD

(Treasurer)

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Christos Coutifaris, MD, PhD

(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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Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH

(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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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.

Marcelle Cedars

Marcelle Cedars is Professor and Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at UCSF. Dr. Cedars is 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 develop a 10,000-woman national cohort 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 has been a standing member of NIH study sections and served on international study sections for Canada and Europe. She is currently the President of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.

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.

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.

Christos Coutifaris

Christos Coutifaris, MD, PhD, is the Celso Ramon Garcia Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Clinical Director of Penn Fertility Care from 1998 to 2018. Dr. Coutifaris has directed basic and clinical research programs in reproduction under continuous NIH grant support for 30 years. He has been a member of several Federal Advisory Committees including the Reproductive Endocrinology Study Section of the NIH. He served on the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was President of the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, was on the Executive Board of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and served as President of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

 

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.  

 

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. 

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.