Andrew Satin, M.D., appointed director of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew J. Satin, M.D., as the new director and Dorothy Edwards Professor of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He will also serve as the director of gynecology and obstetrics for Johns Hopkins Medicine and will assume his new roles on Sept. 1.

Already a much-admired member of the Johns Hopkins family, he is a professor of gynecology and obstetrics and has served since 2007 as both deputy director of the Gyn/Ob department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and chair of the medical board at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Dr. Satin has earned the respect of his colleagues and students alike. In 2008, he received the school of medicine's John G. Griffith Award for innovation and excellence in education in gynecology and obstetrics, and in 2012, the Gyn/Ob department awarded him a Resident Teaching Award. Most recently, he was asked to chair the Johns Hopkins Women's Health in the National Capital Region Strategic Planning Group, where he has grown relationships with private physicians at Suburban and Sibley Memorial Hospitals and advanced Johns Hopkins programs in the Washington, D.C. area.  

A retired U.S. Air Force colonel and the recipient of numerous military service and achievement medals, Dr. Satin earned his medical degree at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda and completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Satin was a professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at his medical school alma mater, where he received multiple Outstanding Clinical Teacher Awards and other accolades. He also served as an attending physician at both the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Satin holds several national leadership positions, including director of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and member of the board of the directors of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He has served as chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committees on Practice Bulletins and Clinical Document Review. He has published many articles in obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine journals and written numerous textbook chapters. His research interests include exercise in pregnancy, an interest that he says grew out of his work with women in the military and athletes who wanted to stay physically fit during their pregnancies. Other research areas of interest to him include labor stimulation and simulation; he has led countless residents through simulation laboratories and directed simulation courses for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

We appreciate the efforts of the search committee, headed by Julie Freischlag, M.D., director of the Department of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Janice Clements, Ph.D., vice dean for faculty and professor of molecular and comparative pathobiology, who led the formidable task of finding a successor to Harold Fox, M.D., who served as director of the department for 16 distinguished years, helping to make it one of the finest such departments in the country. Dr. Fox will step down as director on Aug. 31. The extraordinary group of physicians, researchers, teachers and staff that he led will miss him dearly. We are grateful that Dr. Fox will remain an active member of the faculty and will continue to pursue his academic interests in Gyn/Ob.

Please join us in thanking Dr. Fox for his leadership and in congratulating Dr. Satin on his new role.

Sincerely,
Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ronald R. Peterson
President
The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine