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Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Mar 25;222(5):397–398. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.01.052

Appointment of E. Albert Reece as Editor of Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism during Pregnancy for AJOG

Roberto ROMERO 1
PMCID: PMC7351038  NIHMSID: NIHMS1600750  PMID: 32220384

E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, has been appointed Associate Editor of Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Disorders during Pregnancy for the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Dr. Reece is Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine; Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor; and a Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Medicine, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.

Dr. Reece received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors (Magna Cum Laude) from Long Island University; an M.D. degree from the New York University School of Medicine; a Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and an MBA degree from the Fox School of Business & Management at Temple University. He completed an internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center and a Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Reece remained a full-time faculty member at Yale for nearly ten years. He then joined Temple University as the Abraham Roth Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. He went on to serve as Vice Chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Dean of the College of Medicine before joining the University of Maryland School of Medicine to serve in his current capacity.

His research focuses on diabetes in pregnancy, birth defects and prenatal diagnosis. He directs a multi-million-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded grant portfolio based at the University of Maryland Center for Births Defects Research, studying the molecular mechanisms of diabetes-induced birth defects. Along with colleagues at Yale, he was among the first to develop the embryofetoscopy technique for early prenatal diagnosis.1 His team developed the in vitro hyperglycemia-induced embryopathy model and the yolk sac theory in diabetic embryopathy.2 Dr. Reece also led the team that first provided experimental evidence that oxidative stress in fetal tissues, including the yolk sac, leads to diabetes-induced birth defects.3

In terms of publications, Dr. Reece has edited 13 books,4-15 including, most recently, Diabetes & Obesity in Women: Adolescence, Pregnancy and Menopause, 4th edition,16 and Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus & Mother,6 whose fourth edition will be published this year, and five monographs; he has authored more than 500 articles, chapters, and abstracts. He serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He is the medical editor for Ob.Gyn News, which has a circulation of more than 43,000 obstetricians/gynecologists and related subspecialists.

Dr. Reece holds and has held appointments in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), National Academy of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Advisory Committee, March of Dimes, and Research!America.

In addition, his numerous awards include the 2010 Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award in Health Sciences from the New York University School of Medicine, the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from Loma Linda University, the 2012 American Diabetes Association’s Norbert Freinkel Research Award, the 2013 National Medical Association Presidential Award, the 2015 AAMC David E. Rogers Award, the 2016 Maryland House of Delegates Speaker’s Medallion Award, a Doctor of Science Degree, honoris causa, from Northern Caribbean University in 2016, The Daily Record 2017 Icon Award, the 2018 Yale Obstetrical & Gynecological Society Alumni Award, and a the Doctor of Science degree, honoris causa, from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in 2018.

Dr Reece is considered one of the leading experts on diabetes in pregnancy. His mentees have gone on to make outstanding contributions in research and academic clinical settings around the world.

We welcome Dr. Reece as he joins the AJOG editorial team.

Biography

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Footnotes

Disclosure: The author reports no conflicts of interest.

References

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