Professor and Chair
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, United States
Aaron B. Caughey is Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean for Women’s Health Research and Policy at Oregon Health & Science University. His medical training was at Harvard Medical School and he also earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, and both an MPH in Epidemiology and a PhD in Health Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His residency training was at the combined Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital program in OB/Gyn and his fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine was at UCSF. In Oregon, he founded and Chairs the CDC-funded Oregon Perinatal Collaborative to improve outcomes for women and babies through deliberate guidelines and policies working with all of the health systems in Oregon. Nationally, he recently served on the United States Preventive Services Task Force and as Vice-Chair on the ACOG Committee on Obstetric Practice Bulletins. His research is focused on utilizing epidemiologic, biostatistical, decision analytic methods, and clinical trials to examine clinical questions related to complications of term and preterm pregnancies, gestational diabetes, and prenatal diagnosis and has led to more than 600 peer-reviewed publications. His research has been funded by the NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, the CDC, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is currently funded to do research on prenatal genetic testing, management of the second stage of labor, and the impact of guidelines and insurance coverage on obstetric care and outcomes. When not working, he is busy with his four energetic children in Portland.
(1) Multicenter, prospective cohort of genome sequencing in 750 fetal structural anomalies
Monday, February 12, 2024
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM