Ask the Experts: Ob/Gyn & Women's Health
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- Robert L. Barbieri, MD, Kate Macy Lead Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
- Douglas Bauer, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, and Director of Research Programs, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco, California.
Peter S. Bernstein, MD, MPH, FACOG, Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.- Dennis Black, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
- Ronald M. Cyr, MD, Department of General Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Women's Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Lorraine Dennerstein, AO, MBBS, PhD,DPM, FRANZCP, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Personal Chair in Women's Health, Director, Office for Gender and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Victoria L. Handa, MD, Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Director of Urogynecology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.- Marc C. Hochberg, MD MCH, Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Head, Division of Rheumatology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore.
Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD, Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida Health Science Center at Jacksonville, Director, Menopause and Gynecology Services, Medicus Women's Diagnostic Center, Jacksonville, Florida.- Karen L. Koscica, DO, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.
Peter Kovacs, MD, Clinical Reproductive Endocrinologist and Research and Scientific Coordinator, The Kaali Institute-IVF Center, Budapest, Hungary.
Susan A. New, PhD, University Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, and Lecturer in Nutrition, Centre for Nutrition and Food Safety, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
John F. Randolph, Jr, MD, Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Associate Research Scientist, Reproductive Sciences Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.- Jean-Yves Reginster, MD, PhD, Professor of the University of Liege; Head of Public Health Department, Hospital C.H.U. Liege, Belgium.
- Ego Seeman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and the Cancer Research Institute at the University of California San Francisco, San Francisco.