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Mark I. Evans
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Dr. Mark I. Evans is President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation of America, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Foundation, and President of Comprehensive Genetics, PLLC.

Dr. Evans was born in Brooklyn, graduated with a Bachelor of Science Magna cum laude with special honors from Tufts University and has his medical degree from SUNY Downstate with distinction in research. He did his Obstetrics & Gynecology residency at the University of Chicago and Genetics fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Evans spent 17 years at Wayne State University in Detroit becoming the Charlotte B. Failing Professor, Distinguished Professor, and Chairman of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, and Professor of Pathology. Before returning to his native New York, he was also Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics & Gynecology at MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.

Dr. Evans has been a pioneer in the development of many advances in obstetrics including for prenatal diagnosis: chorionic villus sampling, screening techniques for chromosome abnormalities, and in utero fetal muscle biopsy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: He developed the nation’s largest AFP program for Metpath/Corning/Quest, and in conjunction with the Fetal Medicine Foundation has helped develop nuchal translucency screening and training worldwide. In fetal therapy Dr. Evans developed the method for the first prevention of a birth defect preventing genital masculinization in congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and was part of the team that did the first open fetal surgery for diaphragmatic hernia and fetoscopic umbilical cord ligation to treat TRAP sequence anomalies. He performed the first successful in utero stem cell transplant to cure a baby with SCIDS – the “bubble babies.” Dr. Evans has been the acknowledged leader in the development and publishing for the fetal reduction procedure through which the outcomes of multiple pregnancies have been dramatically improved over the last twenty years.

Dr. Evans has over 1100 scientific publications including 30 text books. He has had multiple NIH grants including being a principal investigator for the search for fetal cells in maternal blood. He has received numerous national and international honors including receiving the President’s Award for Achievement from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and being elected President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society twice. He has received awards from Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women for his work in defending women’s rights. Dr. Evans has appeared on numerous national news programs such as all three American network news shows, Larry King, specials on Discover, PBS, and foreign networks to explain new technologies and is regularly quoted for his own work and to comment on advances by the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He has been in Who’s Who in America for many years, and was named by The Best Doctors for Women as one of the top 40 Obstetricians in the United States. Dr. Evans is Past President of the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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