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Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Veronica Alvarez Galiana

Veronica M. Alvarez-Galiana, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Biography: Dr. Alvarez-Galiana was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She has a passion to serve those less fortunate stemming from her parents' struggles early on as immigrants from Cuba. She has a BS in Neuroscience from the University of Miami, an MSEd in Community & Social Change, also from UM, and she received her medical degree at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine...
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Ian Bishop

Ian Bishop, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Ian Joseph Bishop MD, MPH, is double board certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Complex Family Planning. He received his undergraduate degree in Comparative Politics from Yale University in 2007. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar with the U.S. Department of State and focused on developing women’s health services in East Africa, partnering with international NGOs...
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Jose Carugno

Jose A. Carugno, M.D.

Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Jose “Tony” Carugno is Board Certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology with AAGL fellowship training in Advanced Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Laparoscopy, Robotic Surgery and Pelvic Pain. He received his medical degree and completed residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in his home country at the Maternidad Concepcion Palacios, Central University of Venezuela....
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Judith Simms Cendan

Judith Simms-Cendan, M.D.

Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Judy Simms-Cendan is the Founding Division Director of Pediatric Adolescent Gynecologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine OBGYN department.

Dr. Simms-Cendan graduated from the University of Miami with her Bachelor of Science, and from the University of Florida College of Medicine with her MD degree. She completed her residency...
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Katrina Ciraldo

Katrina Ciraldo, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Biography: Dr Ciraldo is a double board-certified Family Physician and Addiction Medicine specialist with a focus on harm reduction, women’s health and pregnancy. She is trained to care for pregnant people with substance use disorders and mental illness, including those experiencing homelessness, with an intradisciplinary approach. Before starting at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial...
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Liviu Cojocaru, MD, FACOG

Liviu Cojocaru, M.D., FACOG

Assistant Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Liviu Cojocaru is a highly accomplished specialist in maternal-fetal medicine, fortified by a unique and extensive background in critical care. Dr. Cojocaru envisions a pioneering future in obstetrical care underpinned by a dual-fold ambition. The first of these visionary endeavors involves the establishment of an Obstetrical Intensive Care Unit (OB-ICU) at the esteemed...
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Saladin Cooper, M.D.

Saladin Cooper, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Biography: Saladin Cooper, MD, returned back to academic medicine after serving as an obstetrician-gynecologist hospitalist in Davie, Florida, from April 2022 to October 2023. Prior to this, he held academic positions at the Morehouse School of Medicine OB/GYN Department in Atlanta, Georgia, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine in Kansas City, Missouri OB/GYN...
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Flavia Fairbanks

Flavia Fairbanks Ruano, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Flávia Fairbanks Ruano, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. With a career spanning over two decades, she specializes in female sexual health, hormones, menopause, and complex benign gynecological conditions like endometriosis, adenomyosis, and fibroids....
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Sophia George, Ph.D.

Sophia George, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Publications
Biography: Dr. Sophia George, PhD is an Associate Professor appointment in the Division of Gynecological Oncology within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and a full member of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a Department of Defense Ovarian Cancer Academy Awardee. Dr. George is a native of the Caribbean and is...
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Victoria Guerrero Gorman

Victoria Guerrero Gorman, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Guerrero-Gorman was born and raised in Miami, FL. She has a passion for serving the women in the community she grew up in. She attended Florida State University and earned a BS in Biological Sciences, with minors in Chemistry and Psychology. She received her medical degree from Ponce Health Sciences University in Ponce, PR. She completed her residency training at Virginia...
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Patricia Jeudin

Patricia P. Jeudin, M.D.

Associate Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Patricia Jeudin, MD serves as the Director of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center Dysplasia Clinic, Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and practices as a gynecologist at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Health System and Jackson Health System. She sees an extraordinary...
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Navya Nair, M.D.

Navya Nair, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor, Pending Rank
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Navya Nair is an Associate Professor of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Miami. She completed her medical degree at New York University where she was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and was awarded the Eleanor Mayer Masters Scholars Humanism award. She then went on to complete her residency at Emory University, where she...
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Pasquale Patrizio

Pasquale Patrizio, M.D.

Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Patrizio is an internationally renowned reproductive medicine specialist Pasquale Patrizio, M.D., M.B.E., ,H.C.L.D., is joining the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine as Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Patrizio has made major contributions to the field...
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Joseph Pearson, M.D.

Joseph Pearson, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Pearson is certified in obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He attended Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport, LA, and completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas in Houston, Lyndon B. Johnson Program. He completed fellowship training in...
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Edna Porter, M.D.

Edna Porter, M.D.

Professor (Pending Rank)
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Porter is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Her most recent assignments have been with Pediatrix, the largest employer of MFMs in the United States, serving as the medical director for Broward Health for MFM services, and clinical assignment in Fort Myers, FL. During the pandemic she worked with the Mobile County Health Department...
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JoNell Potter

JoNell Efantis Potter, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N.

Professor
Publications
Biography: Dr. Potter is a Professor of Clinical Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, with joint appointments in the Department of Pediatrics and School of Nursing. She serves as Vice Chair of Research for the Division of Reproductive Sciences, and Chief of the Women’s HIV Service. As Chief of the Women’s HIV Service,...
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Rodrigo Ruano, M.D.

Rodrigo Ruano, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Rodrigo Ruano, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and
Reproductive Sciences at University of Miami Miller School of Medical and Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division and Director of the UHealth Jackson Fetal Care.

He received his medical degree from the Medical School of University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil...
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Matthew Schlumbrecht, M.D.

Matthew Schlumbrecht, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Schlumbrecht is a Professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in Miami, Florida. He serves as the Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program; Medical Co-Director for Research Operations, Cancer Survivorship Program; and the Co-Director of Cancer Control and Prevention for Gynecologic Oncology. He also...
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Anna Katerina Sfakianaki

Anna Katerina Sfakianaki, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Anna Sfakianaki is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Program Director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She practices Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Miami Health System and Jackson Health System - one of the largest and most diverse hospital systems in the country....
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Abdulrahman Sinno

Abdulrahman Sinno, M.D.

Associate Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Sinno is a board-certified Gynecologic Oncologist who completed his medical training at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency at Emory University, and Gynecologic Oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he received multiple awards for excellence in teaching and research. His research interests include surgical...
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Austin Zanelotti, M.D.

Austin Zanelotti, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Zanelotti completed his Residency training at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital with targeted interest in Gynecological Surgery. His practice is tailored to benign Gyn Surgery with both complex open procedures and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. Dr. Zanelotti specializes in abnormal uterine bleeding and irregular menses, painful menses, uterine...
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Staff Physicians

Moises Lichtinger

Moises Lichtinger, M.D.

Staff Physician, Generalist