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Loretta Strachowski, MD

Radiologist Clinical Professor, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
University of California
San Francisco, CA
James M. Shwayder, MD, JD

Adjunct Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

James M. Shwayder, MD, JD, is an Adjunct Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Florida. Dr Shwayder received his medical degree from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. From 1982–1998 he was in private practice in Newport News, Virginia. In 1998, he joined the faculty at the University of Colorado. In Colorado, he also earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from the University of Denver College of Law in 2003, being admitted to all courts in Colorado. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the University of Louisville as the Director of Gynecology and Director of the Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery. He ultimately became the Vice-Chair of Clinical Affairs at Louisville. In 2012, he assumed the Chair at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he remained until 2018.
Dr Shwayder is a Fellow of ACOG and a Fellow of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He also has served on the AAGL Board of Governors and the AIUM Board of Directors. For AIUM, Dr Shwayder has been the Chair of the Clinical Standards Committee, Chair of the Coding Committee, and previously served as the AIUM representative to the AMA CPT Advisory Committee. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine. He is also an editor for the Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology and a past editor for Obstetrics & Gynecology. He was the Co-Editor for ACOG’s 7th and 8th edition of Prolog: Gynecology and Surgery.
With over 40 years of ultrasound experience, he is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in gynecologic ultrasound. Dr. Shwayder is widely published and writes a bimonthly article for the Legally Speaking section in Contemporary Ob-Gyn. He is the co-editor, with Dr. Steven Warsof, of a recently published book entitled Legal Concepts and Best Practices in Obstetrics: The Nuts and Bolts Guide to Mitigating Risk.
Anne Kennedy, MD, BCH, BAO

University of Utah Hospital
Salt Lake City, UT
Wouter Froyman, MD, PhD

Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology
KU Leuven

Wouter Froyman graduated as a Medical Doctor at KU Leuven in 2011. He finished his specialization in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2018 and has since then worked as a consultant in this department at the University Hospitals Leuven.
His main clinical activities and research are related to gynecological ultrasound and treatment of benign gynecological pathology, with special interest in minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery.
In 2019, he obtained his PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences, with a doctoral thesis entitled "Progress in differentiation and clinical management of adnexal masses". In 2020, he was appointed associate professor at KU Leuven. He is also a steering committee member of the International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) studies
Yalda Afshar, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Maternal Fetal Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Dr Afshar is a physician-scientist with clinical and research interests that intersect and include high-risk pregnancy, prenatal ultrasound, placental biology, and cardiac disease, either affecting the mother or fetus. She is the co-director of the UCLA Cardio Obstetrics program and the PI of her basic science laboratory, The Afshar Lab.
Kevin Piro, MD
Carolyn M. Zelop, MD
Margarita V. Revzin, MD, MS, FSRU, FAIUM
Nadia F. Mahmood, MD