Lisa Beth Spiryda, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of South Alabama, College of Medicine, Mobile, Al, USA.
Dr. Spiryda received a BA in Biochemistry with Honors from Barnard College, Columbia University and a PhD in Cell Biology and Anatomy/Biomedical Sciences and MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts Hospital Integrated Residency Program at Harvard University.
Dr Spiryda recently became Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL. She was an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, College of Medicine in the Department of OB/GYN. She served as Director of Resident Research and Director of Colposcopy and Vulvar Disease. Dr. Spiryda directed the Translational Research Program in HPV and cervical dysplasia pursuing biomarkers involved with earlier detection of precancerous lesions and new treatment modalities for premalignant cervical disease. Dr. Spiryda has published and presented nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics in Women’s Health including: HPV /cervical dysplasia/abnormal Pap tests, Health disparities in Breastfeeding, Modes of Hysterectomy, Obesity and Pregnancy outcomes and Graft versus Host disease in female genital organs and vulvar disease. She has mentored over 80 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and resident physicians. Dr. Spiryda has received multiple teaching awards including the Golden Apple Medical Student Education Award (2014 - 2017), CREOG Award for Outstanding Resident Teaching and the J. Lee Dockery, MD Excellence in Teaching Award for overall outstanding teaching in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Dr. Spiryda has received multiple grants from local and national funding sources including NIH/NCI - Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities and National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, March of Dimes, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists/Hologic Research Fellowship in Cervical Cancer.
In addition to her active translational and clinical research programs and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Spiryda maintains a large clinical practice encompassing the full spectrum of obstetrics and gynecology. Her special clinical interests include: abnormal PAP tests, vulvar disease, minimally invasive surgical techniques (da Vinci robotic surgery, advanced laparoscopy and hysteroscopy), adolescent gynecology, and family-oriented obstetrics.
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