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List of Professors

Namesort icon Years at Michigan Position

William W. Hurd

1989 - 1995
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

William F. Rayburn

1981 - 1985
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Vasantha Padmanabhan

1985 - 2019
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences

Tommy Nicholas
 Evans

1945 - 1946
1948 - 1966
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Timothy J. Kriewall

1974 - 1981
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Thomas E. Elkins

1985 - 1992
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Sonia Hovelson

2017 - 2018
Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Siobán D. Harlow

1992 - 2021
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Professor of Epidemiology & Global Public Health

Samuel John Behrman

1950 - 1977
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology 1987

S. Gene McNeeley

1985 - 1991
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Rudi Ansbacher

1980 - 2001
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Chair OB/GYN 1984-1985 (Acting) 1991-1993 (Interim)

Ronald J. Buckanovich

2006 - 2017
Thomas H, Simpson Collegiate Professor
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Roland Kwok

1998 - 2022
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry

Robert H. Hayashi

1985 - 2005
J. Robert Willson Collegiate Professor of Obstetrics

Reuben Peterson

1901 - 1931
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chair OB/GYN 1901-1930

Raymond G. De Vries

2003 - 2020
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

R. Kevin Reynolds

1991 - 2021
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Preston V. Dilts

1985 - 1992
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Bates Professor of Diseases of Women & Children
Chair OB/GYN 1985-1991

Peter Paul
 Ludovici

1956 - 1965
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Norman Rudolph Kretzschmar

1931 - 1943
1951 - 1953
1955 - 1958
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Norman Fritz Miller

1931 - 1965
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Chair OB/GYN 1931-1963

Nancy Rose Hunt

1997 - 2016
Professor of History and Judaic Studies
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Michael P. Hopkins

1986 - 1989
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Mel L. Barclay

1973 - 2003
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

MaryFran R Sowers

1987 - 2011
John G Serle Professor of Public Health
Professor of Epidemiology
Professor of Internal Medicine & Obstetrics

Mark D. Pearlman

1990 - 2020
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Margaret Punch

1990 - 2022
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Marcia C. Inhorn

2001 - 2008
Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Women's Studies
Professor of Obsretrics & Gynecology

Leslie L. Bottsford

1914 - 1920
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Laura Sproat

2014 - 2015
Assistant Professor

Laura A. Gago

2004 - 2007
Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Karen B. Bartscht

1987 - 1991
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

K.M. Jairam Menon

1970 - 2019
Professor of Biological Chemistry

Justin Hyuck-Jin Junn

2010 - 2015
Clinical Assistant Professor

Joyce Ellen Roberts

2004 - 2009
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Professor of Nursing

John Wesley Sherrick

1915 - 1917
1919 - 1922
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

John R. G. Gosling

1955 - 1986
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

John J. LaFerla

1980 - 1985
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Joanne L Wible Kant

1986 - 1987
Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Jason Swain

2008 - 2014
Associate Professor

James Robert Willson

1964 - 1983
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Bates Professor of Diseases of Women & Children
Chair OB/GYN 1964-1978

James Nelson Martin

1885 - 1891
Lecturer on Oral Pathology and Surgery 1885-1891
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women 1888-1901
Chair OB/GYN 1891-1901

James Nello Martin

1981
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

James Mortimer Pierce

1923 - 1931
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

James Gifford Lynds

1888 - 1898
Acting Professor of Gynecology

James Allen Roberts

1980 - 1997
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Jacob Marcovici

1998 - 2001
Clinical Assistant Professor II of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Ivan A. Pelegrina

1974 - 1979
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

H. Frank Andersen

1987 - 1992
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Gregory Christman

1992 - 2013
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

George W. Morley

1956 - 1998
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Norman F. Miller Professor of Obstetrics & Gyecology
Interim Chair OB/GYN 1978-1979

George H. Nolan

1970 - 1980
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Associate Professor of Maternal & Child Health

George B. Mychaliska

2004 - 2005
Assistant Professor of Surgery & Obstetrics & Gynecology

Gardner Maurice Riley

1942 - 1964
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Gabriella C. Pridjian

1989 - 1992
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Frank William Joseph Anderson

1999 - 2021
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Elizabeth M. Shadigian

1994 - 2006
Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Elisabeth Quint

1991 - 2023
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Edward Swift Dunster

1874 - 1888
Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children
Chair OB/GYN 1874-1888

Edward Goldberg

1994 - 2004
George W. Morley Collegiate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Douglas Foster

1973 - 2006
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor of Biological Sciences

Diya Patel

2004 - 2010
Research Assistant Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Adjunct Lecturer & Research Investigator Epidemiology

Cosmas van de Ven

1993 - 2022
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clark Nugent

1987 - 2023
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Carolyn M. Johnston

1990 - 2018
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Carmen Renee Green

1993 - 2021
Professor of Anesthesiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Professor of Health Management & Policy

Bruce A. Work

1969 - 1980
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Brian M. Cohen

1980
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Barbara J. Luke

1995 - 2008
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Anthony W. Opipari

1998 - 2019
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Anita H. Payne

1961 - 1996
Professor of Biological Chemistry

Alonzo Benjain Palmer

1854 - 1887
Professor of Matera Medica, Therapeutics, Diseases of Women and Children, Pathology & Theory and Practice of Medicine
Dean of the Medical School

Alan E. Beer

1979 - 1986
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Bates Professor of Diseases of Women & Children
Chair OB/GYN 1979-1984

Alan C. Menge

1967 - 1998
Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Associate Research Scientist

Abram Sager

1842 - 1874
Professor of Zoology and Botany (Librarian 1848-1850)
Professor of Obstetrics & Physiology
Chair OB/GYN 1850-1874