Awards & Honors
Dogwood Award
State NC Attorney General Josh Stein · November 2023 Citizenship award from Attorney General Josh Stein. These awards are given out annually to recognize people who are working to improve the health, safety, and well-being of their fellow North Carolinians. More about this awardAPGO Excellence in Teaching Award
Other Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Duke University Hospitals and Health System · 2022CREOG National Faculty Award for Excellence in Resident Education
National Duke University · June 2021 More about this awardFellow's Award for Excellence in Research
Department University of North Carolina Department of OB/GYN · 2019Roy M. Pitken Award
Scholarly Society Obstetrics & Gynecology (journal) · May 2018 The Roy M. Pitkin Award was established in 1998 to honor departments of obstetrics and gynecology that promote and demonstrate excellence in research. The award recognizes both the authors and the departments for the quality of the research and publication of the results. Awarded to Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Oregon Health & Science University (Aaron Caughey, MD, PhD) Swartz JJ, Hainmueller J, Lawrence D, Rodriguez MI. Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrant women and the effects on infant health. Obstet Gynecol 2017;130:938–45. More about this awardResident Research Award
Department Oregon Health & Science University Department of OB/GYN · 2015Fulbright Fellowship
International Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the United States · 2005 Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Salta, ArgentinaIn the News

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Published October 25, 2022
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Published June 16, 2022
Most North Carolinians want abortion laws to stay the same or become less restrictive, poll shows