Current Women's Health Reviews

Eduardo Cazap MD, PhD is an Argentinean medical oncologist with a longstanding clinical and scientific career in Argentina and Internationally. Founder and first President of the Latin American & Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology (SLACOM) , Past- President of the International Union against Cancer (UICC) and Member of the Executive Committee of the National Cancer Institute of Argentina since 2010 . He received in 2013 the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Conquer Cancer Foundation (USA) and bestowed as Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO). He has a vast in-country and international experience and is a regular plenary speaker, chair or moderator at global cancer and health meetings as well as part of organizing major international conferences.

Dr. Garfield is Professor of Obstetrics at the Women and Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Guangzhou, China. He has published over 500 articles on reproduction and women’s health and holds about 60 on patents on medical instruments and treatment of female disorders. Dr. Garfield was trained in medicine and received a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Alberta, Canada and did extensive postgraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Paris, France. His expertise is in uterine and cervical physiology, preterm birth and the endocrinology of pregnancy.

Dr. Ghosh received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology. Following her PhD, she pursued post-doctoral training at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in the area of HIV acquisition and transmission in women. Currently Dr. Ghosh is an Assistant Professor at the George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her research interests are focused on HIV in women, specifically innate immune responses in the female reproductive tract and its regulation by sex hormones. Her current projects include working with adolescent girls, postmenopausal women and women who have experienced sexual violence and trauma.

Dr. Liverani is Chief of Preventive Gynecologic Oncology Unit at the Foundation IRCCS, Policlinico Hospital, University of Milan (Italy). He is also Chief of the “Reference Centre for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of HPV related Genital Pathology”. He has more than 30 years of experience in lower genital tract pathology. He is a teacher at the School of Specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology and at the School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan. In the last fifteen years he has been an invited and a keynote speaker in more than 100 national courses and international meetings, and is consultant of the regional Workgroup for the guidelines and the diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms in gynecology, supporting the General Health Administration.

Yutaka Osuga is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the University of Tokyo. He is a leading physician scientist in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Japan. He received his MD in 1985 and PhD in 1995 from the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He completed his residency training of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Tokyo. He is board certified by Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Japan Society of Gynecologic and Obstetric Endoscopy and Minimally Invasive Therapy, Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine, and Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine. He has been the Professor of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the University of Tokyo since 2013.

Dr. Antonio Russo, M.D., is currently Full Professor of Medical Oncology in the Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences at University of Palermo Medical School, Italy. Dr. Russo’s principal areas of expertise include the following: Design and conduction of phase II-III clinical trials in solid tumors; Chemotherapy and targeted therapies of solid tumors; Prognostic and predictive biomolecular indicators of therapeutic response to monoclonal antibodies and to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in solid tumors; and, Molecular genetics, prevention and therapies of hereditary and familial tumors. Dr. Russo, as an author/co-author, has published more than 515 articles in various journals, having a significant number of total citations, i.e. over 10,330.

Dr. Schiff is a graduate of McGill Medical School and did his Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Boston Hospital for Women [now Brigham and Women’s Hospital]. He was Director of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology before moving over to the Massachusetts General Hospital to become Chief of the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service. He is currently the Joe Vincent Meigs Distinguished Professor of Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and the Emeritus Chief of the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service. Dr. Schiff is one of the founding trustees of the North American Menopause Society and has served as Editor-in-Chief of its journal Menopause since its inception.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Sesti is Associate Professor in Gynecology and Obstetrics at Tor Vergata University of Roma from 2007. He was responsible of research funds financed by the Italian Ministry of University from 1994 until 2009. He is Member of several scientific Societies. His areas of scientific interest are gynaecologic oncology (diagnosis and treatment of HPV infections’ lower genital tract; diagnosis and treatment of preinvasive cervical lesions; diagnosis of preneoplastic and neoplastic vulvar lesions); mininvasive gynaecologic surgery (laparoscopy and hysteroscopy); uterine myomas; endometriosis; abnormal uterine bleeding. He is author of 105 publications on peer reviewed journals with impact factor, 797 total citations, h-index: 16.

Dr. Robert A. Wild, is Professor & Vice Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Adjunct Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology School of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma. He is Chief of the Gynecology Service at the VA Medical Center Oklahoma City. He is an experienced clinician investigator with a focus on primary prevention strategies for women’s health combining Gynecology and Preventive Cardiology. He has devoted more than 30 years to patient care, research and higher education through teaching and mentoring Medical Students, Residents, Masters and PhD students, and fellow faculty. He practices and teaches Principles of Evidenced Based Practice, and is a national consultant in Ob/Gyn, Menopause, Reproductive Endocrinology and Preventive Cardiology.