2011 Conference Speakers

2011 Managed Care Conference and Trade Show
October 18th - 20th of 2011

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Donald Joe Dudley, MD

Vice Chair for Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Dr. Donald Dudley currently serves as the Vice Chair for Research at UTHSCSA. 
He completed a B.A. degree in microbiology at the University of Texas in 1976 and then his medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1984. Dr. Dudley completed residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Iowa in 1988, followed by a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Utah from 1988-1991.
He joined the faculty at the University of Utah, where he remained until 1999. While in Utah, he became known as an expert investigator in the immunologic aspects of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, preeclampsia, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Donald Dudley was actively involved in the NICHD-sponsored Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network, serving as alternate P.I. for the University of Utah (1996-1999), and for UTHSCSA (1999-2001). Dr. Dudley has served as PI for the San Antonio Center for the Study of Stillbirth, the UTHSCSA component of the NICHD-sponsored Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network. He has also been the co-principal investigator for the San Antonio academic site for the National Children's Study as well as the principal investigator for the San Antonio site in the Patient Navigation Research Project funded by the National Cancer Institute, with a primary goal to improve breast and cervical cancer outcomes in a disadvantaged population.
His special interests include immunology of pregnancy, recurrent pregnancy loss, and the causes of pre-term birth.

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