Irina Burd, MD, PhD
Director, Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine
Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program
Professor of Gyn/OB and Neurology
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins University

Laura Ensign, PhD
Marcella E. Woll Chair in Ophthalmology, Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University
BWF Preterm Birth Initiative – 2015

Susan Fisher, PhD
Professor
Depts. of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
University of California-San Francisco

Tippi C. MacKenzie, MD
Professor
University of California-San Francisco
BWF Preterm Birth Initiative – 2017

Amy P. Murtha, MD
Dean of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

Mana Parast, MD, PhD
Professor Department of Pathology
University of California-San Diego

Hyagriv N. Simhan, MD, MS
Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Executive Vice Chair, Obstetrical Services
Director, Patient Care Delivery Innovation and Technology, UPMC
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Jerome F. Strauss, III, MD, PhD (Chair)
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Human and Molecular Genetics,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Physiology and Biophysics
Virginia Commonwealth University

Additional members may be added to the committee.