San Diego, CA -- Today The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) announced the election of Douglas H. Kirkpatrick, MD, of Colorado, as President Elect; Peter A. Schwartz, MD, of Pennsylvania, as Vice President; James N. Martin Jr, MD, of Mississippi, as Secretary; Iffath Abbasi Hoskins, MD, of New York, as Assistant Secretary; and Camille A. Clare, MD, of New York, as Fellow-at-Large, at its 55th Annual Clinical Meeting. They will assume their respective offices on May 10, 2007.

Dr. Douglas H. Kirkpatrick is in private practice in Denver and is an assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He has been an ACOG Fellow since 1980. Dr. Kirkpatrick has served as vice president of ACOG and has chaired the Grievance Committee and the Council of District Chairs. He has served as a member on the committees on Nominations, Credentials, Health Care for Underserved Women, and Professional Liability. Dr. Kirkpatrick has been a chair of ACOG's District VIII and Colorado Section and is the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding District Service Award and the 1990 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Section Award. Dr. Kirkpatrick is past president of the Colorado Gyn/OB Society. He received his medical degree from the University of Iowa Medical Center in Iowa City and completed his residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, MI.

Dr. Peter A. Schwartz is the former chair and residency program director at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center and is a clinical professor of ob-gyn at Drexel University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Schwartz has been an active ACOG Fellow since 1976 and recently completed a term as ACOG's assistant secretary. He has served as chair of ACOG's Committee on Ethics and of the ACOG Pennsylvania Section. Dr. Schwartz has served as the program director representative for the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology for Region II and as a member of ACOG's Committee on Government Relations, the Task Force on Residency Issues, the Residency Review Committee, and the District III Advisory Council. He received the Outstanding District Service Award for District III in 2005. Dr. Schwartz is a past president of the Obstetrical Society of Pennsylvania and the Hampshire County Medical Society and is a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. Dr. Schwartz completed his medical degree at Boston University in Boston, MA, and his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, CT.

Dr. James N. Martin Jr is a professor of ob-gyn at the University of Mississippi and the director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine and obstetric services at the Winfred Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants in Jackson, MS. He has been an ACOG Fellow since 1981 and most recently served as national secretary. Dr. Martin has chaired the Public Member Subcommittee and the Task Force on Committees. He has been a member of the Council of District Chairs and the committees on Credentials, Obstetric Practice, Course Coordination, Nominations, and Government Relations. Dr. Martin is a past chair of ACOG District VII and has been the program chair of its Annual District Meeting. He is a past president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and of the North American Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy. Dr. Martin received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed his residency at UNC-North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. He completed his fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Parkland Hospital-Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

Dr. Iffath Abbasi Hoskins is senior vice president, chair, and residency director of the department of ob-gyn at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She has been an active ACOG Fellow since 1987. Dr. Hoskins has served as a member of the Committee on Obstetric Practice and the Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women. Dr. Hoskins has been a member of the Task Force on Governance, the PROLOG Task Force on Obstetrics-Fourth Edition, and the Clinical Document Review Panel. She has served as an ACOG delegate to the American Medical Association and as a liaison to the Society for Perinatal Obstetricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Drugs. Dr. Hoskins has been active in ACOG's District II, where she has served as secretary; chair of the committees on Professional Liability, Legislative, and Nominations; and chair of the scientific program for the Annual District Meeting. She is past president of the New York State Perinatal Association. Dr. Hoskins has 30 years of service in the US Navy (active duty and reserves), where she has held numerous leadership positions and received a number of awards. Dr. Hoskins completed her medical degree from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan, and her residency at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She subsequently completed a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Dr. Camille A. Clare is an assistant professor of ob-gyn at New York Medical College and a physician in the department of ob-gyn at Metropolitan Hospital and Medical Center in New York City. She has been an ACOG Fellow since 1997. Dr. Clare has served as a member of the Committee on Adolescent Health Care. She has been active in ACOG's District II as a member of the Committee on Cultural Competency, the Women and Heart Disease Physician Education Committee, and the District II/American Academy of Pediatrics Breastfeeding Committee. Dr. Clare has also served as the District II Junior Fellow chair. She received her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, NY, and completed her residency at Catholic Medical Center in Queens, NY, and State University of New York at Buffalo.

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