UIC OBGYN

"Congrats to Dr. Catherine Wheatley (Faculty of the Year) and Dr. Aswathi Jayaram (Rising Star) in UIC’s Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology! 🎉 Your dedication and hard work inspire us all. Here's to continued excellence in 2025! 👏 #UIC #ObGyn #FacultyAwards #RisingStar"

We are very proud of our Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery faculty Dr. Natan King who’s work entitled "Effect of Patient Age on Decisional Regret After Laparoscopic Hysterectomy” was published. medpagetoday.com/obgyn/generalo…

“Congratulations to Dr. Quetzal Class who was featured in new York Times article: “Why Does a Routine Test of Newborns Reward ‘Pink’ Skin?” by Roni Caryn Rabin. nytimes.com/2024/07/13/hea…

We are happy to announce that the Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstruction Section of The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) at the University of Illinois College of Medicine has significantly strengthen through the addition of two new exceptional faculty.

Dr. Rajul Kothari named Director for Gynecologic Oncology Division, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

“Congratulations to Dr. Randa Hasan for passing her Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery ABOG Board Exam”!

We are delighted to announce the upcoming Antonio Scommegna, MD Symposium, hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on November 1st, 2024 Best regards, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology University of Illinois at Chicago

Congratulations to Liese, Kylea Laina Phd, RN, CNM, and Erica, Hinz MD, MPH, for being one of the recipients of the IDPH Office of Women’s Health & Family Services awards – April 2024.

Congratulations to UIH for being redesignated a Blue Distinction Center for Maternity Care. UI Health Redesignated Blue Distinction Center for Maternity Care | UI Health (uillinois.edu)

Residency Program - Class of 2028 The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago is pleased to welcome our newest members, the newly matched Class of 2028!

Thrilled to celebrate Bani Medegan Fagla for her successful PhD defense in Integrative & Translational Physiology with GEMS! A huge thanks to her committee: Drs. Almudena Veiga Lopez, Dorothy Sojka (Loyola), Irina Buhimschi, Carlos Stocco, Olusola Ajilore, & Leon Tai.

Congratulations to Drs. Lopa Pandya, Erica Hinz and Jonah Fleisher for wining the 2023 Department for OBGYN Rising Star and Faculty of the Year awards, respectively.

Successful conclusion of the 15th Annual Scommegna Symposium: Pearls for Practice in OBGYN held October 27, 2023. Thank you to all who participated and presented at the symposium. All the talks were well received by the audience. @thisisUIC @uiccom chicago.medicine.uic.edu/annualconferen…

Dr. Jonah Fleisher was featured in the NYT article describing his role as Co-director as the CARLA program in coordinating the care of mothers seeking complex family planning service across the state of Illinois. @thisisUIC nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Perinatal Research Lab at UIC is seeking a Research Technologist to perform a) PCR, Immunohistochemistry, b) Western blotting, c) Immunoprecipitation , d) RNA/DNA extraction , e) ELISA. Must have experience working on mice. Apply at: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Congratulations to our residents for a wonderful fellowship match!! @thisisUIC

Congratulations to our incoming fellows for 2024!! Welcome to UIC @thisisUIC

Congratulations to Dr. Irina Buhimschi for being elected to the UIC Provost's Faculty Equity Committee @UICnews @thisisUIC

We are very proud the new coordination service for hospital-based abortion care (CARLA) program in IL was announced at UIC by Governor Pritzker, and is coordinated by Dr. Jonathan Fleisher (UIC) in collaboration with Dr. Laura Laursen. illinois.gov/news/press-rel…

Congratulations to our colleague Ms. Karie Stewart CNM on a $2M HRSA funded grant to implement & evaluate the Community Maternal Health Care model that will provide traditional prenatal care, dental, behavioral health, case management, & doula services for Black women in Chicago.