Animal Use in OB/GYN Physician Residency Training Programs in the U.S.

PETA is conducting an ongoing survey regarding the use of animals in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) physician residency training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education throughout the U.S. (results shown below). If you are aware of an OB/GYN residency program that is currently using animals for training purposes, please e-mail [email protected].

TAKE ACTION by urging OB/GYN physician residency training programs to abandon cruel, deadly training on live animals and adopt a public policy banning the use of live animals. You can do so by e-mailing polite comments to each of the individual program officials shown in the list below titled “OB/GYN Residency Programs That Use Live Animals” by clicking their respective e-mail addresses. If you get a reply from any of these officials, please forward it to us at [email protected].

Updated: October 1, 2024

OB/GYN Residency Programs That Use Live Animals (14)

Albany Medical Center – Albany, N.Y.
Dr. Erin Deverdis
Associate Professor, Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center – Torrance, Calif.
Dr. Tajnoos Yazdany
Residency Program Director, FPMRS Fellowship Program Director
[email protected]
Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Bronx, N.Y.
Dr. Antoinette A. Danvers
Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) – New York, N.Y.
Dr. Rini B. Ratan
Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
Oregon Health & Science University – Portland, Ore.
Dr. Ian Fields
Assistant Professor, Program Director, OB/GYN Program
[email protected]
Rochester General Hospital – Rochester, N.Y.
Dr. Peter A. Mroz
Residency Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
Saint Louis University School of Medicine – St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. D. Gregory Ward
Professor, Program Director, Chief, General OB/GYN Division
[email protected]
Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital – Stony Brook, N.Y.
Dr. Dorota Kowalska
Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
University at Buffalo – Buffalo, N.Y.
Dr. Tova S. Ablove
Clinical Associate Professor, Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
University at Buffalo Sisters of Charity Hospital – Buffalo, N.Y.
Dr. Chad A. Strittmatter
Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
University of California San Diego Health Jacobs Medical Center – La Jolla, Calif.
Dr. Maureen C. Ries
Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics – Madison, Wis.
Dr. Bridget Kelly
Assistant Professor, Residency Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Nashville, Tenn.
Dr. Celeste O. Hemingway
Assistant Professor, Residency Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]
Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital/St. Louis Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Consortium – St. Louis, Mo.
Dr. Shelby M. Dickison
Associate Professor, Residency Program Director, OB/GYN Residency Program
[email protected]

OB/GYN Residency Programs That Do Not Use Live Animals* (131)

Advocate Health Care/Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
Advocate Health Care/Advocate Lutheran General Hospital – Park Ridge, Ill.
Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED – Akron, Ohio
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center – Colton, Calif.
Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital – Warren, Mich
Ascension Saint Alexius – Hoffman Estates, Ill
Aultman Hospital/NEOMED – Canton, Ohio
Aurora Health Care – Milwaukee, Wis.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, Mass.
Carilion Clinic/Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine – Roanoke, Va.
Carolinas Medical Center – Charlotte, N.C.
Central Michigan University College of Medicine – Saginaw, Mich.
Charleston Area Medical Center/West Virginia University School of Medicine – Charleston, W.Va.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital – Camden, N.J.
Corewell Health East – Royal Oak, Mich.
Corewell Health East – Trenton, Mich.
Corewell Health/Michigan State University – Grand Rapids, Mich.
Danbury Hospital – Danbury, Conn.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/UCLA Medical School – Los Angeles, Calif.
Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University – Detroit, Mich.
Eastern Virginia Medical School – Norfolk, Va.
Faxton–St Luke’s Hospital – Utica, N.Y.
HCA Healthcare Mercer University School of Medicine Memorial Health University Medical Center – Savannah, Ga.
Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit, Mich.
Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital – Wyandotte, Mich.
Hospital Episcopal San Lucas/Ponce School of Medicine – Ponce, P.R.
Hurley Medical Center/Michigan State University – Flint, Mich.
Indiana University School of Medicine – Indianapolis, Ind.
Jefferson Health – Stratford, N.J.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California – Oakland, Calif.
Lehigh Valley Health Network/University of South Florida College of Medicine – Allentown, Pa.
Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge, La.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans – New Orleans, La.
Louisiana State University in Shreveport – Shreveport, La.
Madigan Army Medical Center – Tacoma, Wash.
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine – Huntington, W.Va.
McLaren Health Care/Macomb Hospital/Michigan State University – Mount Clemens, Mich.
McLaren Health Care/McLaren Greater Lansing/MSU – Lansing, Mich.
Medical College of Georgia – Augusta, Ga.
The Medical University of South Carolina – Charleston, S.C.
MedStar Health/Washington Hospital Center – Washington, D.C.
Morehouse School of Medicine – Atlanta, Ga.
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida – Miami Beach, Fla.
Nassau University Medical Center – East Meadow, N.Y.
National Capital Consortium – Bethesda, Md.
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth – Portsmouth, Va.
Naval Medical Center San Diego – San Diego, Calif.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center – Newark, N.J.
NYU Long Island School of Medicine – Mineola, N.Y.
Ohio State University/Mount Carmel Health System – Columbus, Ohio
Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma – Tulsa, Okla.
Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia – Columbia, S.C.
Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
Rutgers Health/Jersey City Medical Center – Jersey City, N.J.
Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick, N.J.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – Newark, N.J.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School/St. Barnabas Medical Center – Livingston, N.J.
RWJ Barnabas Health/Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, N.J.
Saint Peter’s University Hospital/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick, N.J.
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium – Houston, Texas
Southern Illinois University – Springfield, Ill.
Sparrow Health/University of Michigan – Lansing, Mich.
St. Anthony Hospital – Oklahoma City, Okla.
Summa Health System/Northeast Ohio Medical University – Akron, Ohio
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University – Brooklyn, N.Y.
SUNY Upstate Medical University – Syracuse, N.Y.
Texas A&M College of Medicine Scott & White Medical Center – Temple, Texas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – Amarillo, Texas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – El Paso, Texas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center–Permian Basin – Odessa, Texas
Tripler Army Medical Center – Tripler AMC, Hawaii
Tufts Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
Universal Health Services Southern California Medical Education Consortium – Murrieta, Calif.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Ariz.
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Ariz.
University of California Davis Health – Sacramento, Calif.
University of California–Irvine – Orange, Calif.
University of California–San Francisco Fresno – Fresno, Calif.
University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (Greater Orlando) – Kissimmee, Fla.
University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME – Gainesville, Fla.
University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME – Pensacola, Fla.
University of Chicago – Chicago, Ill.
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine – Cincinnati, Ohio
University of Colorado – Aurora, Colo.
University of Connecticut – Farmington, Conn.
University of Florida – Gainesville, Fla.
University of Florida – Pensacola, Fla.
University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville – Jacksonville, Fla.
University of Hawaii – Honolulu, Hawaii
University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria – Peoria, Ill.
University of Illinois College of Medicine – Chicago, Ill.
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics – Iowa City, Iowa
University of Kansas – Wichita, Kan.
University of Kansas School of Medicine – Kansas City, Kan.
University of Kentucky College of Medicine – Bowling Green, Ky.
University of Kentucky College of Medicine – Lexington, Ky.
University of Louisville School of Medicine – Louisville, Ky.
University of Maryland – Baltimore, Md.
University of Massachusetts – Worcester, Mass.
University of Michigan Health System – Ann Arbor, Mich.
University of Michigan Health–West – Wyoming, Mich.
University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minn.
University of Mississippi Medical Center – Jackson, Miss.
University of Missouri – Columbia, Mo.
University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine – Kansas City, Mo.
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine – Omaha, Neb.
University of Nevada Las Vegas Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine – Las Vegas, Nev.
University of New Mexico School of Medicine – Albuquerque, N.M.
University of North Carolina Hospitals – Chapel Hill, N.C.
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center – Oklahoma City, Okla.
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine – Tulsa, Okla.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Graduate Medical Education – Harrisburg, Pa.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Graduate Medical Education – Pittsburgh, Pa.
University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine – Tampa, Fla.
University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Nashville, Tenn.
University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School – Galveston, Texas
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – Houston, Texas
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine – San Antonio, Texas
University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals – Galveston, Texas
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas, Texas
University of Toledo – Toledo, Ohio
University of Utah Health – Salt Lake, City, Utah
University of Washington – Seattle, Wash.
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System – Richmond, Va.
Virtua – Voorhees, N.J.
West Virginia University – Morgantown, W.Va.
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine – Kalamazoo, Mich.
Womack Army Medical Center – Fort Bragg, N.C.
Wright State University – Dayton, Ohio
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health at South Shore University Hospital – Bay Shore, N.Y.

OB/GYN Residency Programs That Have Not Clarified Their Use of Animals or Non-Animal Methods

Abington Memorial Hospital – Abington, Pa.
AdventHealth Orlando – Orlando, Fla.
AdventHealth Tampa – Tampa, Fla.
Adventist Health White Memorial – Los Angeles, Calif.
Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium – Pittsburgh, Pa.
AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital – Evanston, Ill.
AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital – Chicago, Ill.
Ascension Genesys Hospital – Grand Blanc, Mich.
Ascension Providence Hospital/MSU College of Human Medicine – Southfield, Mich.
Ascension St. John Hospital – Detroit, Mich.
Ascension St. Vincent Hospital–Indianapolis – Indianapolis, Ind.
Atlantic Health System Morristown Medical Center – Morristown, N.J.
Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center/Mercer University School of Medicine – Macon, Ga.
Baptist Memorial Medical Education – Memphis, Tenn.
Bayfront Health St. Petersburg – St Petersburg, Fla.
Baylor College of Medicine – Houston, Texas
Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center–Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas
Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas, Texas
Beaumont Health – Farmington Hills, Mich.
Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn, Mich.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
Boston Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
Bridgeport Hospital/Yale University – Bridgeport, Conn.
BronxCare Health System – Bronx, N.Y.
Brooklyn Hospital Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
Campbell University – Fayetteville, N.C.
Carle Foundation Hospital – Urbana, Ill.
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center – Cleveland, Ohio
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – Los Angeles, Calif.
Christiana Care Health Services – Newark, Del.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation – Cleveland, Ohio
Creighton University School of Medicine – Omaha, Neb.
Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix, Ariz.
Crozer-Chester Medical Center – Upland, Pa.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital – Lebanon, N.H.
Duke University Hospital – Durham, N.C.
East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine – Johnson City, Tenn.
Einstein Healthcare Network – Philadelphia, Pa.
Emory University School of Medicine – Atlanta, Ga.
Flushing Hospital Medical Center – Flushing, N.Y.
Geisinger Health System – Danville, Pa.
The George Washington University – Washington, D.C.
Good Samaritan University Hospital – West Islip, N.Y.
Hackensack University Medical Center – Hackensack, N.J.
HCA Florida Healthcare/Westside/Northwest Hospital – Margate, Fla.
HCA Healthcare Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare – El Paso, Texas
HCA Healthcare/Mercer University School of Medicine – Summerville, S.C.
HCA Healthcare Midwest Health/Overland Park Regional Medical Center – Overland Park, Kan.
HCA Healthcare Riverside – Riverside, Calif.
HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health Graduate Medical Education – Las Vegas, Nev.
HCA Healthcare University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education/Brandon Regional Hospital – Brandon, Fla.
HCA Medical City Healthcare University of North Texas–Texas Christian University Graduate Medical Education – Arlington, Texas
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital – Clinton Township, Mich.
Houston Methodist Hospital – Houston, Texas
Howard University – Washington, D.C.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, N.Y.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/NYC Health and Hospitals – Jamaica, N.Y.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/South Nassau – Oceanside, N.Y.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Valley Health – Ridgewood, N.J.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai West – New York, N.Y.
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus – Falls Church, Va.
Inspira Health Network/Inspira Medical Center Vineland – Vineland, N.J.
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center – Jamaica, N.Y.
Jersey Shore University Medical Center – Neptune, N.J.
John Peter Smith Hospital – Fort Worth, Texas
Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, Md.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California – San Francisco, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California – Santa Clara, Calif.
Kaiser Permanente Southern California – Los Angeles, Calif.
Kern Medical Center – Bakersfield, Calif.
Kettering Health Network – Dayton, Ohio
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center – Bronx, N.Y.
Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium – Loma Linda, Calif.
Loyola University Medical Center – Maywood, Ill.
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center – Annapolis, Md.
Maimonides Medical Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
Maine Medical Center – Portland, Maine
Main Line Health System Lankenau Medical Center – Wynnewood, Pa.
Marian Regional Medical Center – Santa Maria, Calif.
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – Rochester, Minn.
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University – Chicago, Ill.
Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals – Milwaukee, Wis.
Meharry Medical College – Nashville, Tenn.
Memorial Healthcare System – Hollywood, Fla.
Mercy Health – Muskegon, Mich.
Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center – Toledo, Ohio
Mercy Hospital – Louis, Mo.
Methodist Health System – Dallas, Texas
The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University – Cleveland, Ohio
Mountain Area Health Education Center – Asheville, N.C.
Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
New Hanover Regional Medical Center – Wilmington, N.C.
New York City Health and Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health – Brooklyn, N.Y.
New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center – New York, N.Y.
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital – Brooklyn, N.Y.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine – New York, N.Y.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine – New York, N.Y.
Ochsner Clinic Foundation – New Orleans, La.
OhioHealth Doctors Hospital – Columbus, Ohio
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital – Columbus, Ohio
Orlando Health – Orlando, Fla.
Parkview Health – Fort Wayne, Ind.
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center – Hershey, Pa.
Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System – Philadelphia, Pa.
Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville – Greenville, S.C.
Richmond University Medical Center – Staten Island, N.Y.
Riverside Regional Medical Center – Newport News, Va.
Saint Joseph Hospital – Denver, Colo.
San Juan City Hospital – San Juan, P.R.
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center – San Jose, Calif.
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University – Philadelphia, Pa.
Sinai Hospital – Baltimore, Md.
Stamford Hospital/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons – Stamford, Conn.
Stanford Health Care/Stanford University – Stanford, Calif.
David’s Healthcare Graduate Medical Education – Austin, Texas
Francis Hospital and Medical Center – Hartford, Conn.
John’s Episcopal Hospital – Far Rockaway, N.Y.
Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti, Mich.
Joseph Mercy Oakland – Pontiac, Mich.
Joseph’s University Medical Center – Paterson, N.J.
Luke’s University Hospital – Bethlehem, Pa.
Swedish Medical Center – Seattle, Wash.
Temple University Hospital – Philadelphia, Pa.
Tower Health/Phoenixville Hospital – Phoenixville, Pa.
Tower Health/Reading Hospital – Reading, Pa.
TriHealth (Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Hospitals) – Cincinnati, Ohio
Tulane University – New Orleans, La.
University of Alabama Medical Center – South Birmingham, La.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine – Little Rock, Ark.
University of California San Francisco Health – San Francisco, Calif.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School–Baystate – Springfield, Mass.
University of Miami Jackson Health System – Miami, Fla.
University of Pennsylvania Health System – Philadelphia, Pa.
University of Puerto Rico – San Juan, P.R.
University of Rochester – Rochester, N.Y.
University of Southern California/Los Angeles General Medical Center – Los Angeles, Calif.
University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Chattanooga, Tenn.
University of Tennessee Medical Center – Knoxville, Tenn.
University of Tennessee – Memphis, Tenn.
University of Vermont Medical Center – Burlington, Vt.
University of Virginia Medical Center – Charlottesville, Va.
USA Health – Mobile, La.
Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University – Greenville, N.C.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Winston-Salem, N.C.
WellSpan Health/York Hospital – York, Pa.
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center – Marietta, Ga.
Women and Infants Hospital/Brown University – Providence, R.I.
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
Yale New Haven Medical Center – New Haven, Conn.
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital – New York, N.Y.
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital – Staten Island, N.Y.
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell – Hempstead, N.Y.

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*No live animal use for OB/GYN residency training is confirmed via a statement issued by the program to PETA or via confirmation by the program that no responsive records exist for live animal use.