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John David Gordon MD

Dr. Gordon is originally from Milton, Massachusetts. A summa cum laude graduate of Princeton, he attended Duke University School of Medicine. Following an internship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, he followed his wife to Stanford, California where she joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering. He completed another internship in Ob/Gyn and after his residency he moved up the coast to UCSF for a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility.

He currently resides in Bethesda, MD and is Co-Director of Dominion Fertility in Arlington, VA. Every week he lectures the medical students and residents from The George Washington University School of Medicine and has received the APGO Teaching Award twice in the past 5 years.

Maurice L. Druzin MD

Maurice L. Druzin, M.D. is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Druzin serves as Program Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program. He is the Chief of the Section of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Co-Director of the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. He completed a six year combined premedical and medical school training program at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, a rotating internship at St. Luke's Hospital, Denver, Colorado and residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Medical Center Affiliated Hospitals. His fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine was completed at University of Southern California Medical Center, Women’s Hospital in Los Angeles, California. He was Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell University Medical College before moving to Stanford in 1991. Dr. Druzin’s major areas of interest are in clinical investigation of medical complications of pregnancy and fetal assessment. He has authored more than eighty publications.

Elbert Huang MD

Dr. Elbert Huang is Assistant Professor of Medicine, Research Associate of the Center on Demography and Economics of Aging, and co-investigator of the Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC) at the University of Chicago. He is a general internist who studies clinical and health care policy issues at the intersection of diabetes, aging, and health economics. His research examines the constraints, either clinical or financial, that health care providers encounter when caring for patients with chronic diseases. His main research focus is in the area of medical decision making for elderly patients with type 2 diabetes where uncertainty exists regarding how to best individualize diabetes treatments based on clinical parameters and patient preferences. Dr. Huang has developed a simulation model of type 2 diabetes specifically designed for elderly patients. Using this model, he is evaluating the impact of clinical heterogeneity on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of varying levels of glucose control. As part of his work in geriatric diabetes, Dr. Huang has collaborated with investigators across the country using a variety of data sources to study the changing nature of diabetes care (United Healthcare) and to examine associations between diabetes related medications and geriatric syndromes (Kaiser Diabetes Registry). Dr. Huang and colleagues have also conducted one of the largest studies of diabetes patient preferences, interviewing patients of different ethnic backgrounds in two Chicago locations. This data has provided insight into how diabetes patients weigh the relative burdens of living with comprehensive diabetes care versus life with complications. Dr. Huang has also led the evaluation of the costs and cost-effectiveness of Bureau of Primary Health Care's Health Disparities Collaborative, a national quality improvement program for the nation's federally-funded community health centers. This series of studies represents one of the first attempts to formally evaluate the economic value and impact of a quality improvement program. In other health economic evaluations, Dr. Huang is the lead University of Chicago investigator for the NORC-University of Chicago Health Economics Team for the JDRF Artificial Pancreas Project.

Dr. Huang received his A.B., M.D., and M.P.H. from Harvard University and came to the University of Chicago in 2001.

W.H. Wilson Tang MD

Dr. W.H. Wilson Tang is an Assistant Professor in medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Tang received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine, as well as cardiovascular research fellowship in heart failure at Stanford University. Dr. Tang completed his clinical cardiology and advanced heart failure/transplant fellowships at the Cleveland Clinic. He joined the faculty in the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant at Cleveland Clinic, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine. His specialty interests include cardiomyopathy and heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical assist devices, and diabetic heart diseases. He is funded by the American Heart Association to study the role of metabolic modulation in heart failure, and is currently the principal investigator on several single-center mechanistic studies as well as international multicenter drug treatment trials for the management of heart failure. Dr. Tang is an author or co-author of over 70 published peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and textbook chapters.

Carey Conley Thomson MD

Dr. Thomson received her BA in 1990 from Smith College and her MD in 1996 from Dartmouth Medical School. After her medical residency at Stanford University Medical Center in 1999 and a year of critical care at the University of Rochester, she joined the Harvard Combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. She completed her clinical training in 2001 and research training through a fellowship in respiratory epidemiology at the Channing laboratory, Harvard Medical School in 2004. She additionally received an Masters in Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. She joined the faculty in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as an Instructor in Medicine in 2003. She has received several honors in teaching and is an author and coauthor of over 10 professional publications and is a member of the American Thoracic Society, The American College of Chest Physicians, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

Melissa A. Fischer MD

Melissa A. Fischer, MD MEd, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Primary Care, University of Massachusetts Medical School is Assistant Director of the 3rd year Internal Medicine Clerkship and Director of the 4th year Internal Medicine Sub-Internship. She is an active member of SGIM, AAMC and CDIM serving on their education research committee. Dr. Fischer’s research interests focus on using portfolios to promote and assess learning; teaching and learning from medical errors, and integrating medical education across the learning continuum from medical school to practice. She pursues these interests through the Meyer's Primary Care Institute as well as the University of Massachusetts Community Faculty Development Center.

Dan I. Lebovic MD MA

Dr. Lebovic is originally from Los Angeles, California and is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley for undergraduate and graduate school (masters degree in endocrinology). He attended George Washington University School of Medicine followed by a surgical internship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. From here he returned to the mid-atlantic and completed an Ob/Gyn residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. He then completed a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at UCSF.

Dr. Lebovic is currently Division Director of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility at the University of Wisconsin through which he conducts NIH-funded endometriosis research. He received the APGO Teaching Award in 2002 and 2006. Dr. Lebovic resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

Robert N. Taylor MD PhD

Robert N. Taylor, MD, PhD is the Leach-Hendee Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine. Previously, he was Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Director of the Center for Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Taylor received his undergraduate education at Stanford University and entered the combined MD-PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine. His graduate work on the molecular biology of estrogen action was performed under the supervision of Roy G. Smith, PhD and Bert W. O’Malley, MD. Dr. Taylor trained as a resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology and subsequently as a fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology with Robert B. Jaffe, MD at UCSF. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Lewis T. (“Rusty”) Williams, MD, PhD in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UCSF, where he studied the hormonal regulation of growth factors and their receptors in the placenta. He is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive endocrinologist with clinical interests and funded research in endometriosis, embryonic implantation and preeclampsia. His laboratory investigates the molecular and cell biology of the human uterus and placenta, with an emphasis on endocrine and paracrine regulation of chemokines and angiogenic growth factors. He is principal investigator on several clinical and translational studies and serves as chair of an NIH study section. Dr. Taylor also sits on influential international, national and state executive committees including the World Endometriosis Society, NIH Reproductive Scientist Development Program Executive Committee, several NIH Women’s Reproductive Health Research advisory boards, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Scientific and Ethics Working Group.

Yona Tadir MD

Dr. Tadir is heading the Uterine Fibroid center at the Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, and uterine fibroid center team (www.myoma.co.il ).  Developed the world’s first Laser Laparoscope (1979), the first Laser based system for gamete micro-manipulations in assisted reproduction (1989), and other patented inventions in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Past positions included Founder and Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery service and the division of Reproductive Endocrinology/Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) at the Beilinson Medical Center, Tel Aviv University (1985-1991). Medical Director of the Beckman Laser Institute at UC Irvine (1991-1997), and Director of Ramat Marpe Hospital, Assuta Medical Centers, Israel (1997-2003). Co-authored 170 scientific publications and 4 books. Dr. Tadir is active in developing tools techniques and protocols for minimally invasive surgery, ART, photodynamic therapy, and uterine fibroids. Holds an M.D. degree from Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University (with excellence). Professor at the University of California, Irvine, USA, www.bli.uci.edu/profiles/profile.php?id=ytadir and Tel Aviv University, Israel

Jan T. Rydfors MD

Dr. Rydfors is originally from Stockholm, Sweden. He received his medical degree and specialization training from Stanford University. He has had a long interest in medical teaching and has received multiple teaching awards from Stanford University.Dr Rydfors is currently in private practice while holding a clinical teaching position at Stanford Medical Center. Dr Rydfors' main interests are in high risk Obstetrics, Immunological issues in pregnancy and treatment of habitual miscarriages. He is in the process of launching websites for patients in the field of OB/Gyn and is also in the process of writing a book on fertility treatment with a Doctor of Chinese medicine in order to present east and west approaches side by side.

David S. Lee MD

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Dr. John K. Chan

Dr. John K. Chan currently holds the John A. Kerner Distinguished Professorship in Gynecologic Oncology at UCSF. He became the director of the Gynecologic Oncology Division at the UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2007 after spending four years at the Stanford Cancer Center. Dr. Chan specializes in the surgical and medical treatment of ovarian and other complex pelvic cancers. He has conducted numerous research projects on gene therapy, cellular immunotherapy and targeted biologic therapy for gynecologic cancers. These projects have resulted in an extensive bibliography that includes over 100 original authored articles and abstracts, as well as multiple book chapters. Dr. Chan has been published in journals such as Lancet Oncology, Cancer Research, the Journal of Clinical Oncology and others. His specific research interest lies in the discovery and development of novel therapeutics for gynecologic cancers.

Dr. Chan is the Principal Investigator in a number of Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) clinical trials with an emphasis in ovarian cancer. He has received numerous grants from the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation, Gynecologic Cancer Foundation and GOG.

Dr. Yasser El-Sayed

Dr. Yasser Y. El-Sayed is an Associate Professor and Associate Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Oklahoma and his medical education at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine both at Stanford University.

Elizabeth Langen MD

Elizabeth Langen recieved her undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University. She then pursued her MD at Stanford where she is now completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecolgy. She is planning on pursuing a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine.

Katherin Fuh MD

Dr. Katherine Fuh is originally from Merced, CA and is currently a chief resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed her medical school training at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD. She is currently pursuing a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology. She is interested in continuing research as well as continuing to teach medical students and residents. She has received a medical student teaching award during her residency and has co-authored 7 professional publications.