Rebecca Perkins is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. She was cochair and one of the lead authors of the 2019 ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines. Her career is dedicated to reducing health disparities in cervical cancer.

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Consensus group discussion resulted in a shift from results-based to risk-based management for cervical cancer screening.

2019 ASCCP guidelines: Pearls for practitioners

Vice-Chair, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Claudia L. Werner, MD, is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is a full-time attending physician at Parkland Health and Hospital System, where she serves as medical director of the Community Gynecology and Gynecology Dysplasia/Colposcopy Services

It is essential to expand access to all available, effective cervical cancer screening options for the most vulnerable populations. The targeted use of any particular screening modality in higher-risk populations is not supported by evidence-based guidelines; any effective screening is the priority.

Current choices in cervical cancer screening

Togas Tulandi, MD, MHCM, is a professor and the chair of obstetrics and gynecology, and Milton Leong Chair in Reproductive Medicine at McGill University. He is also chief of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University Health Center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Low progesterone levels have been associated with an increased rate of miscarriage.

The role of progesterone in miscarriage

 is director of research in the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, associate program director of the Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, and an assistant professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also director of reproductive bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and codirector of Ethics and Essentials of the Profession at Harvard Medical School in Boston. In addition, she is an affiliated faculty member at Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Optimization of care represents a priority and requires an understanding of etiology to effectively diagnose and treat.

Management of chronic pelvic pain

Jamie O. Lo, MD practices in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, and in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton.

Carol B. Hanna, PhD, practices in the Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton.

Jason C. Hedges, MD, PhD, practices in the Department of Urology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.

As the landscape continues to shift, 3 experts offer guidance on how to advise patients who may want to use this substance.

Effects of marijuana use  on female reproductive health and pregnancy

Swisher is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond Virginia.

This acquired chronic dermatosis has a 6- to 10-fold predilection for women, so it is especially relevant to a gynecologist’s practice.

Lichen sclerosus: Review  of a vulvar dystrophy with malignant potential

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently published an updated committee opinion regarding morcellation of presumed uterine leiomyoma. Here are the key points. 

Morcellation, ACOG, and shared decision-making

Susan Crowe is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Stanford Health Care and clinical professor in obstetrics and gynecology—maternal-fetal medicine in Palo Alto, California.

Tricia Wright is an obstetrician-gynecologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, where she specializes in substance use disorders in pregnancy, addiction medicine, and mental health in women.

What are the impacts of alcohol use during lactation? 

Alcohol and breastfeeding: What are the risks? 

Shravya Govindappagari, MD is a maternal and fetal medicine specialist and assistant professor at Loma Linda University Health in California.

Rachel Newman is a clinical fellow in maternal-fetal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Richard Burwick  is an associate professor in obstetrics and gynecology and associate fellowship director in maternal-fetal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medica Center in Los Angeles, California.

Anemia in pregnancy should be treated due to its connection to adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes.

Iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy and the role of intravenous iron

Nelson is chief of obstetrics and maternal medical director at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and assistant professor of maternal-fetal medicine in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, also in Dallas.

Schell is a maternal-fetal medicine fellow at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and an assistant instructor in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, also in Dallas.

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) is a rare but potentially fatal condition characterized by hepatic failure.

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