Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Rebecca Feldman Hamm, MD MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania in the division of Maternal Fetal Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai in New York. NY. She went on to complete OB/GYN residency, MFM fellowship, and her MSCE degree at the University of Pennsylvania before beginning her faculty position.
Her primary interest is at the intersection of implementation science and maternal health, with the goal of studying how best to bridge the gap between evidence-based practices and their incorporation into routine obstetric care. Other interests include quality/safety, health disparities, biostatics, obstetric hemorrhage, anemia and hematologic disease in pregnancy, labor induction, and qualitative research. Dr. Hamm serves as Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Hospital OB Quality Committee and is the Vice-Chair of the SMFM Patient Safety and Quality Committee.
She is currently funded by an NIH K23 through the NICHD to examine how standardization of labor induction practices may reduce racial disparities in obstetric outcomes, and a U24 to establish a Hub through the NICHD IMPROVE Initiative for implementation science in maternal health equity at the University of Pennsylvania.