The following chairpersons have led the department: 

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Chairs of Obstetrics

Richard Wilmot Hall, MD            1813-1847

Richard Henry Thomas, MD       1847 -1858

George W. Miltenberger, MD       1858-1891

J. Edwin Michael, MD                   1891-1904

Leonard Ernest Neale, MD         1905-1923

James M. H. Rowland, MD         1915-1937

Louis Harriman Douglass, MD  1937-1955

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Chairs of Gynecology

William Travis Howard, MD                      1867-1897

Thomas Ashby, MD                                    1897-1916

William Sisson Gardner, MD                     1916-1935

John Mason Hundey, Jr., MD                   1936-1955

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Chairs of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Arthur L. Haskins, MD             1955-1980

Carlyle Crenshaw, Jr., MD       1980-1995                           

Eli Y. Adashi, MD (Interim)      1996-1996

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Chairs of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Carl P. Weiner, MD, MBA                           1996-2000

Hugh E. Mighty, MD, MBA                         2000-2010

Christopher Harman, MD                         2010-2022

Irina Burd, MD, PhD                                   2022-

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