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Joanna M. Cain, MD
Chace/Joukowsky Professor
Chair,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Joanna M. Cain, MD, has been
appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
effective October 1. She will also be chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Women & Infants Hospital and the inaugural assistant dean for Women’s
Health Programs at Alpert Medical School. She is stepping into the
position upon the retirement of Donald R.Coustan, MD.
Cain will relocate from Oregon, where she has been professor and chair of
the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Oregon Health and Sciences
University (OHSU) and the Julie Neupert Stott director of the OHSU Center
for Women’s Health, a National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
since 2001.
“Dr. Cain is an internationally recognized leader in women’s health. She
is passionate about providing the best health care for women and about
caring for women with cancer. She is extremely involved in academic
medicine and is interested in resolving ethical issues in medicine,” says
Constance A. Howes, president and chief executive officer of Women &
Infants’. “We are thrilled she has accepted our offer to come here."
After completing a residency
in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington, Cain went on
to become the first woman to complete subspecialty training in gynecologic
oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Cain has spent much of her
career battling women’s cancers, and was the first woman and first
American to chair the International Federation of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (FIGO) Committee for Ethics in Women’s Health, the only
international
committee of its kind. She also chairs FIGO’s Committee for International
Cervical Cancer Prevention. She was the first woman president of the
Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and is past
president of the Council of University Chairs of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
“What excites me about Women & Infants Hospital is the opportunity to
really expand and develop the model of the very best care that women can
possibly have, on a national and international level,” Cain says.
Text from Faculty Update,
Division of Biology and Medicine of Brown University, Summer 2008 |
