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Professor, Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
David Stamilio, MD, MSCE is an OB/GYN Professor and Vice Chair of Research at Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Stamilio is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and perinatal epidemiologist. Previously, he held faculty positions in the UNC School of Medicine, preceded by Washington University in Saint Louis where he was also Maternal Fetal Medicine Division Director and prior to that at the University of Pennsylvania in the departments of OB/GYN and Epidemiology. He completed OB/GYN residency at Christiana Care Health System (formerly the Medical Center of Delaware) and maternal fetal medicine and reproductive epidemiology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserve and Active Components for 15 years and is an Operation Iraqi Freedom war veteran, where he served as a combat surgeon.
Dr. Stamilio’s research interests are along two main lines - prediction and prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes (fetal growth restriction, preterm birth, preeclampsia & fetal anomalies) and general obstetrical issues such as complications of VBAC, cesarean or obesity. He also has expertise in decision analytic methods and cost-effectiveness analysis, with a keen interest in the public health impact of clinical decision-making and reproductive health outcomes. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed papers, most often as a mentoring investigator. He has held or participated as key personnel in grants from the NIH, USAF Surgeon General Office, Pennsylvania Department of Health, and private foundations.
He is an accomplished educator in the areas of clinical research, including study design and methods, reproductive epidemiology, clinical prediction, evidence-based medicine, and decision analysis as well as in clinical obstetrics, having served as a teacher or course master for these topics at medical schools, graduate schools and postgraduate courses.