Meet the Experts
All of the health information on this website is reviewed or written by ob-gyns and other health care professionals. Get to know the team of expert reviewers and contributors.
The obstetrician–gynecologists (ob-gyns) and health care professionals who review the information on this website are members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Editorial Board for Patient Education. This board is focused on helping people understand their health and how to make healthy decisions. Current and former members of other ACOG committees, task forces, and work groups may also be invited to review content and contribute to the website.
All ob-gyn reviewers and contributors are ACOG Fellows and Junior Fellows. These are ob-gyns who have met high ethical and professional standards. Fellows are board-certified in obstetrics, gynecology, or both.
Reviewers help ensure that all of the content on this website is accurate, educational, empowering, and inclusive. Ultimately, this website is designed to support ACOG’s mission of improving women’s health and commitment to changing the culture of medicine. This involves acting to eliminate racism and promote equity in women’s health. Learn more about ACOG’s commitment and action plan.
Reviewers and Contributors
Cynthia Abraham, MD
Dr. Abraham is an ob-gyn and associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Anne-Marie Amies Oelschlager, MD
Dr. Amies Oelschlager is an ob-gyn specializing in pediatric and adolescent gynecology in Seattle, Washington. She serves as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and adjunct professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and is chair of the Committee for Clinical Consensus–Gynecology for ACOG.
Tamika C. Auguste, MD
Dr. Auguste is an ob-gyn at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, where she serves as vice chair of Women’s and Infants’ Services and the physician executive director for the Women’s Health Service Line at MedStar Health. She is a professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and chair of the ACOG Foundation Board. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Lisa Bayer, MD, MPH
Dr. Bayer is an ob-gyn and complex family planning specialist. She is an associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She serves as the co-director of the OHSU complex family planning fellowship and medical director at the OHSU Center for Women’s Health. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Keisha Bell Catchings, MS, MD
Dr. Bell Catchings is an ob-gyn hospitalist and assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She serves as the ob-gyn clerkship director and is an ACOG Fellow.
Sara Cichowski, MD
Dr. Cichowski is an ob-gyn who specializes in urogynecology. She is an associate professor at Oregon Health & Sciences University and the fellowship program director. She is a Fellow of ACOG, the American Urogynecologic Society, and the International Urogynecologic Society.
Rebecca H. Cohen, MD, MPH
Dr. Cohen is an ob-gyn who specializes in complex contraception and abortion services. She is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and division chief and fellowship director of complex family planning at the University of Colorado. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Jenell S. Coleman, MD, MPH
Dr. Coleman is an ob-gyn who specializes in infectious diseases. She serves as associate professor and division director for gynecologic specialties in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She is also the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Women’s Health Center. She is a Fellow of ACOG.
Holly W. Cummings, MD, MPH
Dr. Cummings is an academic specialist and complex family planning ob-gyn who serves as assistant professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Pamela Deak, MD
Dr. Deak is an ob-gyn who serves as division chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UC San Diego Health and clinical professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Denise De Los Santos, MD
Dr. De Los Santos is an ob-gyn hospitalist at UT Health in San Antonio, Texas. She is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and an ACOG Fellow.
Rupa DeSilva, MD
Dr. DeSilva is an ob-gyn who specializes in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. She serves as a clinical professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in the Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Esther Eisenberg, MD, MPH
Dr. Eisenberg is an ob-gyn and reproductive endocrinologist. She is a professor emerita at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She retired in 2023 from her role as medical officer and program director of the Fertility and Infertility Branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Her areas of expertise include reproductive aging, infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, and endometriosis. She is a Fellow of ACOG and serves on an ACOG patient education committee focused on menopause care.
Meredith P. Field, MSEd, PhD
Dr. Field is an assistant professor in the Division of Social Sciences at Alfred University in New York. She is a medical sociologist specializing in issues of access and equity in health and medicine. She previously served as the OPEN postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at University of Cincinnati.
Valerie French, MD, MAS
Dr. French is an ob-gyn who specializes in family planning. She serves as an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas in Kansas City. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Sharon Gerber, MD, MPH
Dr. Gerber is the director of complex family planning at Huntington Hospital and South Shore University Hospital. She is also assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Her research on HPV vaccination at time of abortion care has increased access to HPV vaccination in New York City. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Alexis C. Gimovsky, MD
Dr. Gimovsky is an ob-gyn, maternal–fetal medicine specialist, and associate professor at Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a Fellow of ACOG and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Angelica Glover, MD
Dr. Glover is an ob-gyn and maternal–fetal medicine specialist with Novant Health in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a Fellow of ACOG and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Monica Henning, MD
Dr. Henning is an ob-gyn and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is also the ob-gyn student clerkship director of the third-year medical students and second-year physician assistant students at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine. Her professional interests include contraception, HPV, and training the next generation of physicians and ob-gyns. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Caroline M. Hewitt, DNS, NP
Dr. Hewitt is a clinical professor and assistant dean of undergraduate nursing programs at Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences School of Nursing. She is a member of the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health (NPWH).
Maura Jones Pullins, MD
Dr. Jones Pullins is an ob-gyn and fellow in maternal–fetal medicine at the University of North Carolina. She is a Junior Fellow of ACOG.
Manijeh Kamyar, MD
Dr. Kamyar is an ob-gyn and maternal–fetal medicine specialist at the High Risk Pregnancy Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a Fellow of ACOG.
Charlie Kilpatrick, MD, MEd
Dr. Kilpatrick is an ob-gyn who specializes in urogynecology. He serves as an associate professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is a Fellow of ACOG and of the American Urogynecologic Society.
Piyali Kundu-Veldhoven, LMSW, MS
Ms. Kundu-Veldhoven is a licensed clinical social worker in New York City. She is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and administrative manager for programming and training at a private group practice and training institute. She has a master’s degree in health economics and has worked as a global health consultant and academic research coordinator with a focus on maternal and child health and education.
Julianne Lauring, MD
Dr. Lauring is an ob-gyn and maternal–fetal medicine specialist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Her professional interests include complicated pregnancies, pregnancy-induced high blood pressure, and other conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth. She is a Fellow of ACOG and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Shana Miles, MD, PhD
Dr. Miles is the military program director of the gynecologic surgery and obstetrics residency and associate professor of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has a PhD in emerging infectious diseases from the Uniformed Services University. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Caela R. Miller, MD
Dr. Miller is an associate professor of gynecologic surgery and obstetrics at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and deputy chair of gynecologic surgery and obstetrics at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. She is a board-certified gynecologic oncologist, an ACOG Fellow, and the past chair of the ACOG Armed Forces District Army Section.
Louis Monnig III, MD
Dr. Monnig is an ob-gyn generalist at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. He teaches third-year medical students enrolled in the University of Queensland–Ochsner MD program. He is an ACOG Junior Fellow in Practice.
David G. Mutch, MD
Dr. Mutch is a professor of gynecologic oncology and vice chair of gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an ACOG Fellow, the past president of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology, the chair of the Foundation for Women’s Cancer, and the co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Steering Committee.
Barbara M. O’Brien, MD
Dr. O’Brien is a geneticist, ob-gyn, and maternal–fetal medicine specialist. She practices at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School. She is a Fellow of ACOG and the American College of Medical Genetics.
Nanette Santoro, MD
Dr. Santoro is an ob-gyn and a professor in the Division of Reproductive Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Her research interests include hormone therapy and alternative treatments for menopause as well as the effect of obesity on fertility. She is a Fellow of ACOG and serves on an ACOG patient education committee focused on menopause care.
Carrie Ann Terrell, MD
Dr. Terrell is an ob-gyn who serves as associate professor and director of the Division of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Midwifery & Family Planning at the University of Minnesota. She is an ACOG Fellow.
Jumesha Wade, PhD
Dr. Wade is the executive director at Start at Zero, a nonprofit that partners with parents and caregivers to promote healthy early childhood development. She serves on the steering committee for the Race and Social Justice Committee with the Kansas Association of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health.
Barry Witt, MD
Dr. Witt is an ob-gyn specializing in reproductive endocrinology at Illume Fertility in Norwalk, Connecticut. His areas of expertise include in vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic testing. He is an ACOG Fellow and a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.
Hope Yates, JD, MPH
Ms. Yates is the director of strategy and communications for women’s health at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is dedicated to improving women’s health through patient education, technology, and innovative care delivery.