Lois E. Brustman, MD, FACOG, is director of the Residency Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a faculty member in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt hospitals in New York City. She is also an associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She earned her medical degree from New York Medical College and received residency training in obstetrics and gynecology, and fellowship training in maternal-fetal medicine, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During her fellowship, she was director of the Medical Student Education Program and medical director for the Prematurity Prevention Program. During the 1990’s, she was director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics, and associate director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, in the Bronx, New York. Concurrently, she was part of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division and an associate professor in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College, in Valhalla, New York. She joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt hospitals in 2000, and has been director of the residency program since 2002.

Dr. Brustman’s clinical expertise spans the full range of high-risk obstetrics, and she has particular interests in preconception counseling, diabetes in pregnancy, and prematurity. She has published articles in major journals regarding diagnosis and treatment of diabetes in pregnancy, screening and diagnosis of fetal abnormalities, and correlation of medical student test scores to performance in residency. In recent years, she has contributed to presentations at national meetings, including studies on twin-to-twin growth discordance, pregnancy outcome in gestational diabetes controlled with glyburide, predictors of diet success in treating gestational diabetes, and the relevance of gender to the predictive power of nuchal-translucency enlargement.

Dr. Brustman sits on the Board of Directors of the New York Perinatal Society. Among other professional societies, she is a member of the New York Obstetric Society, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation.