Radek Bukowski, M.D., Ph.D.

Radek Bukowski came to Dell Medical School from Yale University, where he was professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences and director of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and chief of maternal fetal medicine at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He completed medical school and an obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Poznan in Poland and received a doctorate from the Freie Universitaet Berlin. He then completed a second residency at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and a fellowship in maternal fetal medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Prior to that, he was a faculty member for 16 years in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, where he achieved the rank of tenured professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

Bukowski’s research focuses on preterm birth, stillbirth, developmental programming and long-term health consequences of adverse outcomes of pregnancy. His publications have appeared in numerous journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), PLoS Medicine and the British Medical Journal. Bukowski’s work has been supported by six grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is an internationally recognized expert in maternal fetal medicine and has received numerous awards including the prestigious March of Dimes award for Best Research in Prematurity.