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Alison Cahill, M.D., MSCI

UT Health Austin Care Team Member
Education

M.D.
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Residency/Fellowship

Residency, Obstetrics & Gynecology
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Fellowship, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine

About

Alison Cahill, M.D., MSCI, serves as the associate dean of translational research at Dell Medical School. She is also a professor in the Department of Women’s Health and the director of the Health Transformation Research Institute.

A practicing, fellowship-trained maternal-fetal medicine specialist, Cahill earned her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where she also earned her master’s in clinical investigation.

Cahill joined Dell Medical School after serving 14 years in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is a nationally recognized scientist in the area of perinatology and has over 200 peer-reviewed publications on the subject. She has received awards for her efforts in research, most recently the Award of Research Excellence from the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Research Excellence Award from the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

She is chair of the Committee on Obstetric Clinical Consensus (formerly Obstetric Practice) for the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Global Reports and is the senior editor for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine editions of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.