USC DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

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Division of Gynecology

• Begüm Özel, M.D. 
  • Associate Professor of OB/GYN, Acting Director, Division of Gynecology
  • Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
  • Urogynecology, incontinence surgery
• Raquel D. Arias, M.D.
  • Associate Professor of OB/GYN
    Clinical Associate Professor of Gerontology
    Associate Dean, Educational Affairs, Special Projects 
  • Contraception
    Healthy aging
    Breast disease
• Charles A. Ballard, M.D.
  • Professor of OB/GYN
  • Advanced gynecologic surgery
• Gere S. diZerega, M.D.
• Professor of OB/GYN
• Basic science research
  Adhesion prevention
• Jennifer J. Israel, M.D.
  • Assistant Clinical Professor of OB/GYN
  • Benign gynecologic surgery
• Robert Israel, M.D.
  • Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN
  • Director, Women's Health Clinics and Referrals
  • Chair, Quality Improvement, OB/GYN
  • USC Faculty Senate, faculty handbook committee  
• Jenny Jaque, M.D.
• Assistant Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
• General Obstetrics and Gynecology
  Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
• Ronna Jurow, M.D.
  • Associate Clinical Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN
    Director, Division of Family Planning
  • Family Planning
    Contraception
• John Klutke, M.D.
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN
  • Surgical intervention for pelvic floor dysfunction
    Molecular mechanisms of pelvic floor dysfunction
• Heather Macdonald, M.D.
  • Associate Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN
  • Breast surgery and the management of benign and malignant breast disease
• Daniel R. Mishell, Jr., M.D.
  • Lyle G. McNeil Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN
  • Contraception
    Hormone replacement therapy
    Infertility
• Rebecca Lane Nelken, M.D.
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
• Penina Segall-Gutierrez, M.D., MSc 
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Family planning for women with and at risk for diabetes
• Claire L. Templeman, M.D.
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Gynecology
  • Endometriosis
    Advanced laparoscopy
    Pediatric gynecology

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 Division of Obstetrics

• David A. Miller, M.D.
  • Associate Professor, Acting Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    Medical Director, Institute for Maternal-Fetal Health
  • Prenatal diagnosis
    Physiology
    Fetal surveillance
• Laila Al-Marayati, M.D.
  • Assistant Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN
  • International and national promotion of the reproductive health rights of Muslim women
• Ramen H. Chmait, M.D.
  • Associate Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Fetal surgery
• Marc Incerpi, M.D.
  • Associate Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
• Bruce W. Kovacs, M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Pathology
  • Genetic testing
• Richard H. Lee, M.D.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Molecular pathways to parturition
    Operative obstetrics
• Patrick M. Mullin, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Medical education
    Prenatal diagnostic imaging
    Hyperemesis gravidarum
• Joseph Ouzounian, M.D.
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
    Medicine
  • Operative obstetrics
    Brachial plexus palsy
    Preterm labor
    Ultrasound
• Giuliana S. Songster, M.D.
  • Associate Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • Prenatal genetic diagnosis
• Alice Stek, M.D.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • HIV/AIDS in pregnancy

Gynecology | Obstetrics | Oncology | REI | Pathology

 Division of Gynecologic Oncology

• Lynda D. Roman, M.D.
  • Director and Research Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
  • Treatment of ovarian cancer
    Screening for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers 
• C. Paul Morrow, M.D.
  • Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Charles F. and Helen Ann Langmade Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology 
  • Surgical anatomy, technique, and treatment of gynecologic cancers
   
• Laila I. Muderspach, M.D.
  • Chair and Residency Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Associate Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
  • Tumor biology and epidemiology of Gyn cancers
    Quality of life in Gyn cancer
    HPV vaccine
    HIV and lower genital tract infection
   
• Huyen Q. Pham, M.D.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
  • Development of new and more effective methods of chemotherapy
• Annie Yessaian, M.D.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Gynecologic Oncology
  • Improving survival and limiting toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents
    Angiogenesis of ovarian cancer

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 Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility

• Richard J. Paulson, M.D., M.S.
  • Professor, Fellowship Director, and Director of Division of Reproductive Endcrinology and Infertility
  • Assisted reproductive technology
• Kristin Bendikson, M.D.
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN
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• Karine Chung, M.D., M.S.C.E.
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
  • Fertility preservation
• Donna Shoupe, M.D., M.B.A.
  • Professor, Departments of OB/GYN and Family Medicine
  • Pathophysiology and treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease
    Androgen replacement
    Contraception
    Menstrual cycle regulation
    Anovulation 
• Rebecca Z. Sokol, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Professor, Departments of OB/GYN and Internal Medicine
  • Andrology and male factor infertility
• Frank Z. Stanczyk, Ph.D.
  • Professor of Research, Departments of OB/GYN and Preventive Medicine
  • Steroid and prostaglandin biochemistry
• Sharon Winer, M.D., MPH
  • Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Hormone Imbalance Management
  • Menstrual Cycle function and dysfunction
  • Perimenopause and Menopause
    
   

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 Gynecologic/Obstetric Pathology

• Juan C. Felix, M.D.
  • Professor, Clinical Pathology and Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Chief, OB-GYN Pathology, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center
    Director of Surgical Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital 
  • Diagnosis and treatment of preinvasive lesions of the cervix
    Effects of hormone replacement therapy
    HIV in women

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