Willard C. Rappleye Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Mary E. D'Alton, MD, is Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Willard C. Rappleye Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She also serves as Director of Services at the Sloane Hospital for Women at NewYork-Presbyterian. Specializing in maternal fetal medicine, the majority of Dr. D'Alton's practice focuses on patients with high-risk pregnancies due to complex maternal or fetal conditions. Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 by the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM), Dr. D'Alton has served as its president and held key positions in other organizations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) Neonatal Encephalopathy and Cerebral Palsy Task Force and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). In 2013, she was elected as a member to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine). She currently serves as co-chair of ACOG District II's Safe Motherhood Initiative, which works to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in New York State. In 2018, she opened the Mothers Center, a first-of-its-kind center focused on delivering multidisciplinary care to pregnant women with complex medical or surgical conditions. The author or contributor to over 200 publications, Dr. D'Alton is co-editor of Seminars in Perinatology and has served on the editorial board of ACOG's Obstetrics and Gynecology.