Holly E Richter, PhD, MD is The Endowed Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Urology & Geriatrics, past Division Director and current Research Director of the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery. She is Associate Director of Gynecologic Research for the Center for Research in Women’s Health (CRWH) and past President of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons and the American Urogynecologic Society. She is the past Medical and Quality Officer of the Ambulatory OB/GYN Clinics. She serves as an Editor for the International Urogynecology Journal and Section Editor for Current Geriatrics Report and past Editor of Obstetrics & Gynecology. In 2019, Dr. Richter received the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons Distinguished Surgeon Award. She was the Principal Investigator of the NIDDK-sponsored Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network and the NICHD-sponsored Pelvic Floor Disorders Network since its inception in 2001. She oversees other NIH (R01, R03) and industry sponsored research. She was also the recipient of a 10 year mid-career award (K24, NIDDK) in patient oriented pelvic floor research and mentors many young investigators. More recently she is the PI of 2 PCORI grants awarded to the division and has a Sparkman Global Health Center grant exploring outcomes in vesicovaginal fistula and reintegration outcomes in women undergoing surgery in a country county hospital versus dedicated fistula center in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso. She has 385 publications, many in top journals such as JAMA and NEJM. Dr. Richter is the ACOG representative to the Section for Enhancing Geriatric Understanding and Expertise among Surgical and Medical Specialists (SEGUE) council of the American Geriatrics Society/Hartford Foundation. Prior to medical school, Dr Richter and her husband lived in Niger. It has always held a place in her heart. After becoming faculty at UAB she started to go to Africa to surgically help women injured in childbirth. She has been to Zambia, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Sudan and for the past few years has worked in Danja, Niger. She has a strong interest in treating vesicovaginal fistulas and has visited Africa regularly for nearly 20 years.

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Associate Director of Gynecologic Research, Center for Women's Reproductive Health

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Professor - Department of OB/GYN

University of Alabama at Birmingham

J Marion Sims Endowed Chair

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Division Director

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Associate Professor - Department of OB/GYN

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Assistant Professor - Department of OB/GYN

University of Alabama at Birmingham

PhD, Molecular Biology

University of Virginia, Dept Microbiology

1981

MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

1992

Society of Gynecologic Surgeons

American Urogynecologic Society

International Urogynecologic Association

International Continence Society

American Geriatrics Society

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