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October 25, 2002|Volume 31, Number 8



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Lockwood named to O'Keefe Young post


Dr. Charles J. Lockwood
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Dr. Charles J. Lockwood, recently named the Anita O'Keefe Young Professor of Women's Health, is a leading expert in maternal-fetal medicine, with specialties in pregnancy loss, preterm delivery, endometrial biology and maternal thrombophilia, a blood-clotting disorder in pregnancy.

Lockwood's research interests have centered on conditions that may result in pregnancy loss, the prediction of preterm delivery and sonographic detection of fetal stress. He is the senior editor of the CD-ROM and Internet-based textbook "Obstetrics: UpToDate" (2001) and has authored more than 140 journal articles, 18 book chapters and hundreds of abstracts. His writing and research have earned him awards from the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Lockwood joined the Yale faculty this year as chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine. He serves as chief of Ob/Gyn at Yale-New Haven Hospital and is the director of the Yale Women's Health Center. He is also clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, where he had served 1995-2002 as the Stanley H. Kaplan Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. From 1998 to 2000, he was also acting director of the Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center at the NYU School of Medicine.

In addition to his research, teaching and administrative responsibilities. Lockwood maintains a faculty practice in high-risk obstetrics. He has been cited on the "Best Doctors" list by American Health Magazine and has been annually cited as a "Best Doctor" by New York Magazine and the Castle and Connolly Survey for the last six years.

Lockwood received his undergraduate education at Brown University and his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the Pennsylvania Hospital and held a postdoctoral fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1987. Before joining the NYU faculty, he was at Tufts University School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where he was director of perinatal research. He is the editor-in-chief of Contemporary Ob/Gyn and assistant editor of the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine. He has served on numerous national and state committees dealing with perinatal concerns.


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