US Obstetrics & Gynecology


Volume 6 • Issue 2 • Winter 2011


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Jonathan S Berek, MD, MMS Professor and Chair,


Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine


Sarah L Berga, MD Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center


Michael Brodman, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine


Sandra Ann Carson, MD Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,


Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University


Nancy C Chescheir, MD Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina Health Care


William C Dodson, MD Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Penn State University College of Medicine


Joachim W Dudenhausen, MD Professor of Obstetrics, Weill Cornell Medical College


Editorial Board


Tommaso Falcone, MD Professor and Chair, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation


Franklin Loffer, MD Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arizona


Liselotte Mettler, MD Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kiel University


Charles E Miller, MD, FACOG Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecological Surgery, Lutheran General Hospital


Thomas R Moore, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine


Carol Nadelson, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School


Roger B Newman, MD Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina


Pasquale Patrizio, MD, MBE Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and


Reproductive Sciences, Yale Fertility Center


Robert W Rebar, MD Executive Director, American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)


Robert Resnik, MD Professor Emeritus of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego School of Medicine


Joseph Schaffer, MD Chief of Gynecology and Urogynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center


Anil K Sood, MD Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center


Stephen Young, MD Professor, UMass


Memorial Medical Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School


Shahida Zaidi, MBBS, FCPS Director, Institute of Ultrasonography and Ultrasound Clinic, Karachi


US Obstetrics & Gynecology wishes to thank the organizations below for their assistance. This does not constitute any official endorsement.


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