Edith D. Gurewitsch Allen
Obstetrics & Gynecology and every subspecialty.
Dr. Gurewitsch Allen’s clinical research has been devoted to shoulder dystocia and its relationship to obstetric brachial plexus injury.
<p>Edith D. Gurewitsch Allen, MD, MBA, MEd, is Professor and Interim Chair, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health and Executive Vice Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health Clinical Services at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Gurewitsch Allen embraces her role as director, mentor and advocate of the Department’s faculty and administrators, championing the delivery of exceptional quality reproductive health care for underserved women and pregnant people of the Bronx. She also guides and facilitates the faculty’s professional development to ensure the Department’s continued world-renowned professional education and training of the future generation of women’s health care providers in general Obstetrics & Gynecology and every subspecialty.
</p><p>Dr. Gurewitsch Allen was in the first class that accepted women at Columbia College. She earned her medical degree from the College of Physicians & Surgeons at Columbia University, then completed her residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology and fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at The New York Hospital Cornell University Medical Center. From there, she joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1997, where she continued as a full-time faculty member in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine until 2018, when she was recruited to be Executive Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health at Montefiore. Further developing her teaching and administrative skills, Dr. Gurewitsch Allen earned her Masters of Education of Health Professionals from Johns Hopkins School of Education, focusing on evaluation of best educational practices, competency assessment, and outcomes measures. She also completed her Master of Business Administration in Health Care Management at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School.
</p><p>Dr. Gurewitsch Allen’s clinical research has been devoted to shoulder dystocia and its relationship to obstetric brachial plexus injury. Previously supported from 2004-2007 by an R-49 grant from the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control as Principal Investigator of a research program entitled Preventing Unintentional Mechanical Birth Injury, she focused on examining mechanisms of injury, objectively evaluating obstetrical maneuvers, educating physicians-in-training through simulated complicated births and educating physicians in patient safety and injury prevention through continuing medical education. She is currently funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for a 5-year, $2M R-18 grant to study the optimal methods for training and assessing provider competency in managing shoulder dystocia using simulation. Dr. Gurewitsch Allen has attained national and international recognition in this area, sharing her work through more than 135 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, invited oral presentations and internet-based presentations.
</p><p>Dr. Gurewitsch Allen is board certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, the Council of University Chairs in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
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