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Professor and Maas Endowed Chair for Reproductive Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina
Roger Newman, M.D. is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maas Endowed Chair for Reproductive Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Newman was the MUSC site Principal Investigator for the NIH-NICHD National Fetal Growth Study. Along with the other Fetal Growth Study site investigators, Dr. Newman was also a participant in the NIH-Environmental Contributors to Health Outcomes (ECHO) Study. Dr. Newman presents these abstracts as a representative of the ECHO-NICHD FETAL GROWTH STUDY CONSORTIUM.
Following a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical University of South Carolina and a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Newman returned to MUSC in Charleston where he has practiced his entire career. He has served as the South Carolina Chair of ACOG, as the President of the S.C. OB-GYN Society and as the national president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He is a former editor of the SMFM edition of the American Jornal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. His primary clinical interests include the management of women with multiple gestations, assessment of normal vs abnormal fetal growth, diagnosis and managment of fetal anomalies, fetal heart rate monitoring and intrapartum care.
Dr. Newman is one of the authors of the award winning and highly successful When You’re Expecting Twins, Triplets or Quads, 4th Ed. published by HarperCollins.He is also a medical fiction writer having published a series of medical suspense novels entitled Occam's Razor, Two Drifters and What Becomes. Most recently, he is also a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit survivor.