WashU ObGyn was awarded 1st and 2nd place for St. Louis in the St. Louis ObGyn Society meeting! (Links to an external site)
Category: Awards & Recognition
Aspiring physicians honor medical faculty, residents, staff (Links to an external site)
Tammy Sonn, MD, Caroline Min, MD, and Andrea Hagemann, MD, show their awards at the 2022 Distinguished Service Teaching Awards ceremony
Dr. Tyler Woodard awarded “Minority Scholar in Cancer Research” at AARC
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting is pleased to administer this important program which is primarily supported by a generous grant from the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. Dr. Woodard was the recipient of the 2022 ACR Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Award The 2022 conference took place […]
69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) Awards
We are celebrating two awards for this year’s 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) Awards! The meeting took place in Denver, Colorado from March 15th-19th. Our Chair, Dr. Dineo Khabele won the President’s Achievement Achievement Award! Our Vice-Chair for Research, Dr. Sarah England won the DeCherney Society Lifetime Service Award! We […]
Latest recipients of the WashU OBGYN Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey (L.A.B.) Award!
We’re excited to announce the newest recipients of the WashU OBGYN Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey (L.A.B.) Award! The award is named in honor of three enslaved women whose bodies were used by Dr. J. Marion Sims for painful experimental attempts to repair vesico-vaginal fistulas. This award calls us to remember Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey, their […]
Honoring our Colleague, Dr. Turner
National Black Women Physicians Day is February 8th in honor of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. On Wednesday, February 9, 2022, we honored Dr. Jacqueline Turner, a trailblazer in her own right. She is a graduate of MIT, then went on […]
Dr. Ali Ahmady joins the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility as Lab Director
After a thorough national search, Dr. Ali Ahmady has been chosen and accepted the role of Lab Director for WASHU/BJC Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center. Dr. Ahmady is a consummate academician and he comes to us from the University of Southern California. He is no stranger to the Midwest having spent time in Cleveland where he […]
Omurtag named Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Kenan Omurtag, M.D. has accepted the role as our Division Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility effective June 1, 2021.
Dr. Anthony Odibo named Chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Dr. Odibo is an internationally renowned Maternal-Fetal Medicine expert with an incredible track record in research.
Dr. Dineo Khabele; new Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dean Perlmutter announces Dr. Dineo Khabele as new Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Dr. Michael Nelson receives the “Neville Grant Award for Clinical Excellence”
The Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology would like to congratulate D. Michael Nelson, MD, PhD, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, on being awarded the 2018 Neville Grant Award for Clinical Excellence.
Professorship named in Honor of James P. Crane, MD.
A professorship was named in honor of James P. Crane, M.D., emeritus professor of obstetrics & gynecology and former associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs, who had a long list of accomplishments since joining the University’s faculty in 1977. He spearheaded the development of the Washington University Physicians Network, the largest independent physicians’ association in […]