Welcome New Members
November 16, 2018 – January 31, 2019 Tamer Abdelrazik, MD Thuan H. Le, MD Naomi N. Adjei, MD Hazel Isabella Learner, BM, MRCOG, DFSRH Haykuhi Aghajanyan, MD Ji Young Lee, MD, MPH, FACOG...
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Members in the News
Ted L. Anderson, MD, PhD will assume the Presidency of ACOG at the annual ACOG meeting in Nashville in May 2019. Ted is currently Director, Division of Gynecology, Dept ObGyn, Vanderbilt Medical School. He...
New Members – Second Half of 2018
AAGL would like to welcome the following new members who joined the organization in the Second Half of 2018. Pegah Aalami-Harandi, MD Jose Javier Lazaro, MD Merihan Abdelmalek, MD Eloi Le Roux Ahmed...
Alan Gordon, MD, FRCOG (1929-2018)
Dr. Gordon and his wife, MaryIt was with great sadness that the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE) reported the death of Alan Gordon. In 1989 Professor Gordon, along with a small group of...
New AAGL Medical Director Announced at 47th Global Congress
In November 2017, following Dr. Franklin D. Loffer’s decision to retire from his long-term position as Medical Director for AAGL, the AAGL Board of Directors began the task of preparing to search for his...
Calling All Volunteer Leaders: Nominations for the AAGL Board of Directors are Now Being Accepted
In accordance with our Bylaws, each year the Board of Directors rotates in five (5) new members: Secretary-Treasurer (a 4-year term position that ascends to Vice-President, President, and Immediate Past-President); and 4 Director positions...
Johan van der Wat, M.D. (1949-2018)
Friends and colleagues were saddened to learn of Johan’s passing on June 27, 2018 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was a member of the AAGL Board of Directors (2010-2012) and was responsible...
Donald L. Chatman, M.D. (1934-2018)
Friends and colleagues were saddened to learn of the passing on February 22nd of the AAGL’s 13th President (1987-1988), Donald L. Chatman. Dr. Chatman received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his medical...
Becoming a Diamond in a Rhinestone World: Setting the Standard for Member Inclusion in the AAGL
In late November, the AAGL Board of Directors received a letter from a group of members outlining concerns regarding gender equality in our organization. The Board immediately responded by creating a Task Force on...
