Endocrine Society secretary-treasurer, Richard S. Legro, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Penn State University College of Medicine. Legro had been serving as interim chair of the department since July 2017.
In his 25 years at Penn State, Legro distinguished himself as a respected clinician, investigator, educator and leader in women’s health services – all roles that will serve him well as he oversees the expansion of Women’s Health in its new Labor and Delivery units that will be constructed, throughout the Penn State Health facility.
Legro is an associate editor for Fertility and Sterility and Human Reproduction Update and the co-editor in chief of Seminars in Reproductive Medicine. He has consulted extensively for the NIH, the Food and Drug Administration, the World Health Organization, and been selected for the Thousand Talents Program in China. He has received many awards including the Presidential Achievement Award of the Society for Gynecologic investigation and has been elected an honorary member Ad Eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in the United Kingdom.
Legro joined Penn State in 1993 and is professor and vice chair of research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as co-director of the Hub Resource Capacity Core at the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Legro is recognized internationally for his research in polycysticovarysyndrome (PCOS) — diagnosis, treatment, andgenetic/environmentalcauses, as well as on improving infertility diagnosis and treatment. He has designed and led many practice-changing multi-center comparative effectiveness infertility trials in the U.S. and China. He has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for more than 20 years as a principal investigator and currently has both NIH RO1 and U10 grant support. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in medical journals and has mentored numerous students, residents, and junior faculty in clinical research.
He graduated from Middlebury College with a degree in English Literature and received his MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. His post-graduate work included a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh (Magee Womens Hospital) and a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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