Sharmila Makhija named chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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SHARMILA MAKHIJA was named professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System, effective April 1.

Previously, Makhija served as chair and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Louisville School Of Medicine.

Makhija has also held faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine/Magee-Women’s Hospital, the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and Emory University School of Medicine.

She is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the American Medical Association, American Association of Cancer Research, and the American Society of Gynecologic Cancer. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Oncology Practice and has served on the editorial boards of Women’s Oncology Review Journal and the International Journal of Gynecological Cancer.

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