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Professor
University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School
Alison Cahill, M.D., MSCI, is a Professor in the Dell Medical School Department of Women’s Health and Director of the Dell Medical School Health Transformation Research Institute. Dr. Cahill is also a practicing, fellowship-trained maternal-fetal medicine specialist in UT Health Austin’s Women’s Health Institute.
Cahill earned her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she also earned her master’s in clinical investigation.
Cahill joined Dell Medical School after serving 14 years in Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is an internationally recognized scientist in the area of perinatology and has over 300 peer-reviewed publications. She has received awards for her efforts in research, most recently the Award of Research Excellence from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Research Excellence Award from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
She serves as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Global Reports. For SMFM, she is the senior editor for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine editions of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the chair of the SMFM scholars committee, and is a member of the Executive Committee as the Assistant Secretary-Treasurer.