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“Their professional and personal accomplishments demonstrate the value of hard work and dedication.” Since 2013, Dr. Sandra Carson has been the vice president of education with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists where she oversees a team that directs the educational curriculum for ob/gyn residents across the United States. Additionally, she serves as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. She received her medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School and completed her obgyn residency at Northwestern’s Prentice Women’s Hospital and her reproductive endocrinology fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Michael Reese Hospital. An accomplished surgeon, Dr. Carson designed hysteroscopic instruments that allow doctors to look inside a uterus to diagnose and treat bleeding issues. She has been recognized in “Best Doctors in America” for more than 10 years and is included regularly in Good Housekeeping’s “401 Best Doctors for Women” and “The Guide to America’s Top Obstetricians and Gynecologists” among many other publications. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 60 chapters and six books in reproductive medicine. She was an associate editor for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and editor-in-chief of Sexuality, Reproduction and Menopause. Dr. Carson chaired the FDA’s Reproductive Drugs Advisory Committee and was c