President Fetal Medicine Foundation of America, and Prof Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Mount Sinai Hospital
Dr. Mark I. Evans is President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation of America, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Foundation, and President of Comprehensive Genetics, PLLC. Dr. Evans spent 17 years at Wayne State University in Detroit becoming the Charlotte B. Failing Professor, Distinguished Professor, and Chairman of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, and Professor of Pathology. Before returning to his native New York, he was also Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics & Gynecology at MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.
Dr. Evans has been a pioneer in the development of many advances in obstetrics including for prenatal diagnosis: chorionic villus sampling, screening techniques for chromosome abnormalities, and in utero fetal muscle biopsy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: He developed the nation’s largest AFP program for Metpath/Corning/Quest, and in conjunction with the Fetal Medicine Foundation has helped develop nuchal translucency screening and training worldwide. In fetal therapy Dr. Evans developed the method for the first prevention of a birth defect preventing genital masculinization in congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and was part of the team that did the first open fetal surgery for diaphragmatic hernia and fetoscopic umbilical cord ligation to treat TRAP sequence anomalies. He performed the first successful in utero stem cell transplant to cure a baby with SCIDS – the “bubble babies.” Dr. Evans has been the acknowledged leader in the development and publishing for the fetal reduction procedure through which the outcomes of high order multiple pregnancies have been dramatically improved over the last 35 years.
Dr. Evans has over 1200 scientific publications including 30 text books. He has had multiple NIH grants including being a principal investigator for the search for fetal cells in maternal blood.