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Rosanne M. Kho, MD

Dr. Kho is Chair of the JMIG Editor-in-Chief Search Committee and AAGL Secretary-Treasurer. She is also Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Phoenix and Banner–University Medical...

Dennis Karugu Mureithi, MD

Dr. Mureithi is the 2024 FAAGL Harrith Hasson Award winner, OB-GYN and laparoscopic surgeon, and Co-Founder and Director of Medical Services at The Hem Practice in Thika, Kenya, where he advances accessible minimally invasive...

Dr. Masoud Azodi & Dr. Vaagn Andikyan

Dr. Azodi is Chief of Gynecologic Oncology Surgery for Hartford HealthCare’s Fairfield Region and an Emeritus Professor at Yale School of Medicine. He is a board-certified gynecologic oncologist with expertise in complex and minimally...

Kate L. Woodburn, MD

Dr. Woodburn is a physician and assistant professor of Urogynecology at Atrium Wake Health Forest Baptist.

Nichole Mahnert, MD

Dr. Mahnert is a member of the AAGL Coding Committee and Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Arleen H. Song, MD, MPH

Dr. Song is the AAGL Fibroids SIG Chair and Fellowship Program Director of the Complex Benign Gynecology Fellowship, Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. 

Veronica Lerner, MD

Dr. Lerner is the Associate Chair of CoRPS at the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons and a Urogynecologist and MIG Surgeon at Northwell Health in New York.

Amy Garcia, MD

Dr. Garcia is President of the Foundation of the AAGL and a surgeon at the Center for Women’s Surgery in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Gabrielle Whitmore, MD and Janelle K. Moulder, MD, MSCR

Dr. Whitmore is from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, Colorado. Dr. Moulder is from the Division of Gynecologic Subspecialties, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology...

Katherine Smith

Dr. Smith is a Program Director for AAGL’s FMIGS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a fellowship-trained, minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon specializing in the care...

Yana Aznavour, MD, PhD

Dr. Aznavour is a member of the AAGL Research Committee and CEO & Founder of Endometrics in Berkeley, California.

William Nolan, MD

Dr. Nolan is Faculty at the 26th Advanced Workshop on Gynecologic Laparoscopic Anatomy and Minimally Invasive Surgery and a Fellow at the Complex Benign Gynecology Fellowship (CBGF), Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health...

Dmitry Fridman, MD, PhD

Dr. Fridman is a member of the AAGL Coding Committee, AAGL Advisor on the American Medical Association (AMA)/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), and Associate Program Director for the MIGS Fellowship at...

Ted Anderson, MD, PhD and Jason Abbott, B Med (Hons), PhD

Dr. Ted Anderson is Immediate Past President of the AAGL and Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr....

Charles Miller, MD and Michel J. Canis, MD, PhD

Dr. Miller and Dr. Canis are Co-Chairs of the AAGL Global Health Program. Dr. Miller is Director of CCRM Fertility in Park Ridge, Illinois. Dr. Canis is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Clermont-Ferrand...

Jose “Tony” A. Carugno, MD

Dr. Carugno is Co-Chair of the 3rd AAGL International Summit on Hysteroscopy, Member of the AAGL Board of Directors, and Clinical Director of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology &...

Reilly A. Bealer, MD

Dr. Bealer is the AAGL Sectional Delegate to the AMA Resident and Fellow Section and a Resident in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in...

Javier Magrina, MD

Dr. Magrina is the 2025 AAGL Honorary Chair, Secretary-Treasurer of the Foundation of the AAGL, and Consultant for the Mayo Clinic in Pheonix, Arizona.