Board of Directors
AUGS members are represented by a 12-member Board of Directors who is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of the society. The Board is comprised of five officers and seven Directors-at-Large. The officers of the Society include a President, President-Elect, Vice President, Immediate Past President and a Treasurer. Learn more about each position here.
Terms expire on December 31 for the year indicated.
AUGS members can send communications to the Board of Directors using the [email protected] email address. View Board Member Disclosures.
Officers
President
Tanaz Ferzandi, MD, MBA
Keck Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, CA
Term Expires: 2025
President Elect
Emily Lukacz, MD
University of California,
San Diego
San Diego, CA
Term Expires: 2025
Vice President
Robert Gutman, MD
UMedStar Washington Hospital Center/Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Term Expires: 2025
Treasurer
Jerome Yaklic, MD, MBA, FACOG
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Galveston, TX
Term Expires: 2025
Immediate Past President
Jennifer Wu, MD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Term Expires: 2025
Directors-at-Large
Marianna Alperin, MD
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
Term Expires: 2026
Matthew Barker, MD
Avera Medical
Sioux Falls, SD
Term Expires: 2025
Heidi Brown, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI
Term Expires: 2025
Nathan Kow, MD
AdventHealth
Orlando, FL
Term Expires: 2026
Nazema Y. Siddiqui, MD, MHS
Duke Health
Durham, NC
Term Expires: 2025
Scott Smilen, MD, PhD
Hackensack Meridian Health/Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Neptune, NJ
Term Expires: 2027
Marcella Willis-Gray, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Term Expires: 2027
Ex-Officio Members
AUGS Interim Executive Director
Stacey Barnes
American Urogynecologic Society
Silver Spring, MD
ABOG Representative
W. Thomas Gregory, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Term Expires: 2025
