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Richard L. Meiling Professor and Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Mark B. Landon earned his MD from Cornell University Medical College and completed residency and fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania. He then joined the OSU faculty in 1987. In 2010 he was named was named the Richard L Meiling Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has also served as director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and as clinical director of Obstetrics. Dr. Landon is a widely published researcher and internationally recognized authority on both diabetes in pregnancy and on vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) delivery. He built Ohio State’s Diabetes in Pregnancy Program into one of the largest in the United States. He has been an investigator for the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Networks Unit for over 27 years and served as principal investigator for two landmark studies both published as first author in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Landon was principal investigator of the largest prospective study ever conducted on VBAC as well as the largest treatment trial for gestational diabetes ever conducted in the US. Dr. Landon has published more than 275 articles and book chapters. He is the lead Editor for the textbook: Gabbe: Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies now in its 8th edition.