I underwent my basic medical training at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, at the time considered to be the leading medical center in Africa. I subsequently rotated through the specialties of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery, Emergency Room, Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. After initial training in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Nigeria, I proceeded to the United Kingdom for training in Obstetrics and Gynecology, obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1997 Working as Registrar to Professor Stuart Campbell, a pioneer and leading authority in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, I had training in the management of high-risk pregnancies. In my years of training, I have had the opportunity of working closely with such leaders in the field as Anthony Vintzileos, M.D., Yves Ville, M.D., Anthony Scialli, M.D., Stuart Stanton, M.D., Tom Bourne, M.D., Ph.D., John T. Queenan, M.D., John C. Smulian, M.D., and Cande V. Ananth, Ph.D., M.P.H. I have authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading obstetrics and gynecology journals. In addition, I have contributed seven chapters in major maternal-fetal medicine, obstetrics and ultrasound textbooks. I am a referee and reviewer for seven leading journals in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Imaging. I have been ranked by Obstetrics & Gynecology, the most prestigious journal in the field, with a circulation in excess of 46,000 and an impact factor of 3.512, among the top 10% of reviewers for the journal. I am also rated among the top 5% of reviewers for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, considered the most respected journal in obstetrical and gynecological imaging. My work has been cited in virtually every major obstetric text as well as in numerous journal articles. My work is also cited in the practice guidelines of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the official educational guide (Prolog) in Obstetrics of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. I was invited to write editorials for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology and American Family Physician (readership in excess of 190,000). I have had front cover articles in two of the leading journals. I have been interviewed for numerous newspaper articles (Dallas Home News, The Greenville News, the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Pregnancy Today, Boca Raton News, Intellihealth.Com, the Statesman, and Prevention magazine). My primary area of interest is Maternal-Fetal Medicine, with particular interests in abnormalities of the placenta and umbilical cord, prenatal diagnosis, ultrasound, and intrapartum and operative obstetrics. I enjoy teaching medical students and other residents and have been recognized with numerous teaching awards. My research presentations have won the First Prizes at the New Jersey Maternal-Fetal Medicine Society in 2003, 2004, and 2006 as well as the New York Perinatal Society in 2005. As a Chief Resident at Georgetown University Medical Center, I received the First Place award at the Resident Research Day. I have also presented my work at numerous National and International conferences including the World Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, World Congress of Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the International Society for Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, the Annual Clinical Meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Course on Audit. Recently, my focus of research has changed to basic science. In collaboration with Dr Morgan Peltier, PhD, Director of the Perinatal Biology Laboratory at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School, I am examining the effect of progesterone at a cellular level on the mediators of preterm labor and cervical ripening. The first of these experiments “Effect of progesterone on Nitric oxide production by bacteria-stimulated endocervical and vaginal epithelial cells” and “Effect of experimental preterm premature rupture of the membranes on fetal weight “were presented at the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine 26th Annual Clinical Meeting in Miami, Florida in February 2006. Further experiments are being prepared for publicationRead More
Given Foundation Professor and Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology New York Weill Cornell Medical School New York, NY 10021 (USA) Frank A. Chervenak, MD currently serves as the Given Foundation Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief and the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Pennsylvania State University with highest distinction, and his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University where he was elected a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Dr. Chervenak served his internship in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College, residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Medical College in St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center and a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He was Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, where he was also Director of Perinatal Research and received the Dr. Solomon Silver Award for application of advances in research to the practice of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Chervenak was appointed Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Obstetric Ultrasound and Ethics at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1987. In 1991 he was named Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Director of Obstetrics. In 1992 he was made Full Professor with tenure, in 1998 he was named Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and in 1999 was named Acting Chairman of that department. Dr Chervenak was named Chairman and Obstetrician and Gynecologist-in-Chief in 2000. He received his Master in Medical Management degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Frank A. Chervenak, MD has published over 200 papers in peer review literature and has co-authored or co-edited 18 textbooks. Research interests include ultrasound and ethics in obstetrics & gynecology and leadership. Dr. Chervenak has served on the Board of Governors of the American Institute in Ultrasound and Medicine and the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians. He has served as President of the International Fetal Medicine in Surgery Society, the New York Perinatal Society and the New York Academy of Medicine Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the New York Obstetrical Society. Currently, Dr. Chervenak serves as President of the International Society of the Fetus as a Patient, President-elect of the World Association of Perinatal Medicine, Vice-president of the International Academy of Perinatal Medicine, and Co-director of The Ian Donald Inter-University School of Medicine and Ultrasound. He serves on the March of Dimes Bioethics Advisory Committee and National Children’s Study Federal Advisory Committee. He received a doctorum honoris causa from the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He is an honorary member of the Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Barcelona Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Texas Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Medical Science of Croatia.Read More
Associate Director for Education Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Baylor College of Medicine One Baylor Plaza Houston, TX 77030, USA Laurence B. McCullough, Ph.D., has been Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Professor of Family and Community Medicine, and a Faculty Associate of the Huffington Center on Aging at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, since July 1988, and Associate Director for Education of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy since 2004. He is Adjunct Professor of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Rice University, and holds medical staff appointments at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children’s Hospital. He won an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for 1995-1996 and was elected a Fellow the Gerontological Society of America in 1997 and of the Hastings Center in 2003. Dr. McCullough is a past president of the Society for Health and Human Values (1987-88), now the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Dr. McCullough teaches in the Progressive Care Unit of Texas Children’s Hospital, in the Medicine and Surgery services of The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and in Baylor’s Departments of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Psychiatry. He is Director of the third-year elective in clinical ethics of Baylor’s national-award-winning four-year elective Ethics Track, the first of its kind among American medical schools. Dr. McCullough teaches the ethics courses in the certification and degree programs of the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. McCullough has published more than 275 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books. Medical Ethics: The Moral Responsibilities of Physicians, co-authored with Tom L. Beauchamp (Prentice-Hall, 1984), has been translated into Spanish (Barcelona, 1987) and Japanese (Tokyo, 1992). With Frank A. Chervenak, M.D. (Given Foundation Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University), he is co-author of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Oxford University Press, 1994). He is co-editor with Nancy L. Wilson of Baylor’s Huffington Center on Aging of Long-Term Care Decisions: Ethical and Conceptual Dimensions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). His Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation appeared in 1996 (Kluwer Academic Publishers). In 1998 his John Gregory and the Invention of Professional Medical Ethics and the Profession of Medicine and (as editor) John Gregory’s Writings on Medical Ethics and the Philosophy of Medicine appeared (Kluwer), as well as Surgical Ethics (Oxford), co-edited with Baruch A. Brody and James W. Jones. He is also co-editor with Baruch A. Brody, Mark Rothstein, and Mary Anne Bobinski of Medical Ethics: Codes, Opinions, and Statements (Bureau of National Affairs, 2000) and co-author with them of a companion volume commenting on these documents (BNA, 2001). With Robert B. Baker of Union College (Schenectady, New York) as co-editor, Dr. McCullough is presently preparing A History of Medical Ethics and The Cambridge Dictionary of Bioethics for Cambridge University Press. He is also preparing a second edition of Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology with Drs. Chervenak and John Coverdale, a Baylor psychiatrist. In addition, Dr. McCullough has published more than 40 original book chapters in scholarly volumes and 65 chapters in textbooks. Since coming to Baylor, Dr. McCullough has been or is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator for grants and contracts from the NIH, Veterans Health Affairs, National Endowment for the Humanities, private foundations, and Baylor affiliated hospitals. He was Principal Investigator for “Enhancing the Autonomy of Vulnerable Subjects of Research,” funded by the NIH as part of the NIH, DOE and VA Consortium on Informed Consent Research (R01 04736) (1997-2002) and Co-Principal Investigator for “A History of Medical Ethics,” funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (RZ-20525) and four private foundations (1999-2002). He is a member of the Ethics Committees of four of Baylor’s primary affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center: St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, The Methodist Hospital, and Texas Children’s Hospital. Since 1999, he has also served as Director of the Ethics Consultation Program at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. Dr. McCullough received his A.B. in Art History from Williams College (1969) and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin (1975) and held a post-doctoral fellowship at The Hastings Center (1975-1976). He has held prior appointments on the medical and philosophy faculties at Texas A&M University (1976-1979) and Georgetown University (1979-1988), where he was a Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He is married to Linda J. Quintanilla, Ed.D., who teaches history at North Harris College in Houston, .Read More
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Vice Chairman Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Vanderbilt University Medical Center North B1100, Nashville, TN (USA) 37232-2519 Office telephone: (615) 343-5227 Fax: (615) 343-8881 e-mail: frank.boehm@vanderbilt.edu Dr. Frank H. Boehm is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Vice Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN. He is the former Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center as well as the former Chair of the Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Ethics Committee. Dr. Boehm is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School and the Yale Internship and Residency Program. He is Board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine and has authored over 200 scientific publications as well as co-editing a major medical textbook. Dr. Boehm has also authored Doctor’s Cry, Too: Essays from the Heart of a Physician and Building Patient Doctor Trust which addresses the issue of physician-patient communication and the need for doctors to build trusting relationships with their patients. Dr. Boehm has served on national committees and is a reviewer of major scientific publications in his field. In addition, he has spoken throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. He currently authors an op-ed column in the Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, on medical issues. He has received numerous honors, including, Vanderbilt Medical Center Faculty Award for teaching medical students, residents, and/or fellows in the clinical setting and was the first recipient of the Frank H. Boehm Award for contributions to continuing medical education. Dr. Boehm has three children and five grandchildren. He and his wife, Julie, reside in Nashville and Boca Raton, Florida. Dr. Boehm can be reached at his email, frank.boehm@vanderbilt.edu, office telephone, (615) 343-5227, fax, (615) 343-8881.Read More
Dr. James F. Phillips Senior Lecturer Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 60 Haven Avenue, B-317 New York, NY 10032 email – jfp2113@columbia.edu James F. Phillips is a senior associate in the Population Council’s Policy Research Division. He previously worked in the Population Council’s International Programs Division in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Thailand. Prior to his work with the Population Council, Phillips held positions in Nigeria with the International Committee of the Red Cross and UNICEF. Dr. Phillips conducts field experiments that measure the demographic role of family planning and child survival programs. He directed Bangladesh’s Matlab Community Health and Family Planning Project which demonstrated the demographic potential of family planning services in that country. The Matlab service model became the basis for national health reform in the 1980s and 1990s. Dr. Phillips is currently working on a collaborative research program with the Ghana Health Service and the Navrongo Health Research Centre. When the Navrongo Experiment established the feasibility of reducing fertility and mortality with community-based health and family planning services in 1999, a national scaling-up initiative, known as the Community-based Health Planning and Services initiative, was launched to extend the Navrongo service model to all 110 Ghanaian districts. Phillips serves as the senior advisor to the Ghana Health Service for this program, where he collaborates on research designed to guide, refine, and evaluate the scaling-up effort. Dr. Phillips is currently collaborating with his Ghanaian colleagues on a program of exchange that will extend health service innovations from Ghana to Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia. In 2005, Dr. Phillips launched a new collaborative venture with the Vietnam Ministry of Health that aims to apply evidence-based planning methods to health reform in that country. Dr. Phillips is a member of several international science advisory boards and has launched scientific research networks on issues related to health sector reform, reproductive health, and demographic research methodology. He holds an M.S. degree in population studies from the University of Hawaii, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan. Phillips has published books on the evaluation of family planning programs, the demography of South Asia, and population policy in Bangladesh. He has journal publications on the demography of Asia and Africa, health policy, computer science, and other topics.Read More
The Journal, WomensHealthSection.com, is the official publication of The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC), NGO in Special Consultative Status of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The editors / physicians’ board welcome submissions for various sections of the Journal. Authors are encouraged to supply step-by-step photos, a video clip, or both to be posted online with the article. Founded in 2002, the Journal is published in six official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The translations, we believe, will increase understanding of the medical literature and help foster networks of health-care providers around the globe. The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC), addresses through its publications, the most pressing public health concerns of populations around the world. To ensure the widest possible availability of authoritative information and guidance on public health matters, WHEC encourages its translation and adaptation. To compile WHEC Practice Bulletins, the following journals are frequently surveyed. We hope that our efforts contribute to improved and informed care. All contributions, including solicited articles and symposia, are critically reviewed by the editors and invited referees. Reviewers’ comments are provided to authors. The decision of the editors is final. Authors are welcome to suggest the names of individuals they consider qualified to serve as reviewers. All human investigation must be conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki. All studies involving animals must state that guidelines for the use and care of laboratory animals of the authors’ institution or the National Research Council or any national law were followed. Acta Obstetrica et Gynecologica Scandinavica American Journal of Cardiology American Journal of Clinical Pathology American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (AJOG) American Journal of Psychiatry Annals of Medicine Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology British Medical Journal (BMJ) British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Bulletin of the World Health Organization Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Cancer Circulation Contraception Diabetes ( Journal of the American Diabetes Association) European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology Fertility and Sterility Human Reproduction International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics International Urogynecology Journal Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Journal Pediatric Adolescent Gynecology Journal of Reproductive Medicine Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine Lancet Military Medicine Neurourology Urodynamics New England Journal of Medicine Obstetrics & Gynecology Pediatrics United Nations Chronicle UrologyRead More
NGO BRIEFING CALENDAR FOR APRIL 2005 7 April Topic: Promoting Maternal and Child Health Campaigns (In observance of World Health Day, 7 April) Speakers: Ian Smith, Advisor to the Director-General, World Health Organization H.E. Mr. Aminu Bashir Wali, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations Rita Luthra, President, Women’s Health & Education Center 14 April Topic: Water: Gender Perspectives (In observance of the International Decade of Water and the Commission on Sustainable Development, 11-22 April, New York) Speakers: June Zeitlin, Member, Commission on Sustainable Development, NGO Women’s Caucus, Executive Director, Women’s Environment and Development Organization H.E. Mr. Crispin Grey-Johnson, Permanent Representative of the Gambia to the United Nations (invited) Ethnè Davey, Member, Steering Committee, Gender and Water Alliance, Water Program Manager, Department of Water Affairs & Forestry, South Africa 21 April DPI/NGO Communications Workshop Topic: Access to Information : ngocalendar.org Moderator: Joan Kirby, Chair, Communication Workshop Committee Morning Session: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Topic: A Comprehensive NGO Online Calendar: Why, When, Where, How? Speakers: Lilia Vazquez, Chief, Special Projects Unit, Internet Service, DPI Dan Uitti, Webmaster, NGO/DPI Executive Committee Ayse Toprak, Intern, DPI/NGO Section Rik Panganiban, Communications Coordinator, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) Open discussion of NGO experiences and recommendations Afternoon Session: 1:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Topic: Making it Happen: The Nuts and Bolts Rik Panganiban, Communications Coordinator, Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) Dan Uitti, Webmaster, NGO/DPI Executive Committee 28 April Topic: Report from Sudan: UN/NGO Perspectives Speakers: Christopher Coleman, Officer-in-Charge, Senior Political Affairs Officer/Africa Desk, Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) H.E. Mr. Elfatih Mohamed Ahmed Erwa, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sudan to the United Nations (invited) John Prendergast, Special Adviser to the President, International Crisis Group (invited) Briefings are held in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. unless otherwise indicated. Thematically relevant UN videos are usually screened at 10 a.m. before the Briefing. NGO Briefings are available on audio cassette. Contact the DPI/NGO Resource Centre. To receive our monthly Calendar and the weekly DPI/NGO Link newsletter electronically, please e-mail dpingo@un.org. Check the DPI/NGO Section’s website at http://www.un.org/dpi/ngosection or call our hotline at 212-963-6847 for information and any changes in our Briefing programme. E-mail address: dpingo@un.org. More information is available at our DPI/NGO Resource Centre, tel.: (212) 963-7233/4 or 963-7078; fax: (212) 963-2819Read More
