Sandra Ann Carson is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Director, Division of Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence. Dr. Carson is a practicing reproductive endocrinologist and recipient of more than 15 years of research funding from the NIH; her research interests include ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, in vitro fertilization, and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. She is the past president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and is Program Chair of the Committee on The Scientific Program of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Carson wrote for NEJM Journal Watch Women's Health starting with the publication's launch in 1996 and was Editor-in-Chief from 1999 to 2009.

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