Yasser Y. El-Sayed

Yasser Y. El-Sayed, MD is the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. El-Sayed has been part of the Stanford community since he arrived in 1990 as an intern. He became a full Professor in 2009, served as Associate Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics from 2005 to 2013, and has been the Division Director, Obstetrician-in-Chief and co-Director of the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services since 2013. He is also Professor by Courtesy of Pediatrics and of Surgery, and Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health.

Dr. El-Sayed was instrumental in developing and directing the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics’ extensive clinical and research programs. He was the founder of the Stanford – Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Research Collaboration, and was the Stanford Principal Investigator of the NICHD Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network from 2013-2016. Dr. El-Sayed was central to envisioning and launching the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center for Discovery, Innovation and Clinical Impact, which he currently directs. Most recently, this August 2023, Dr. El-Sayed and his colleagues received a major seven-year NIH Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence award for their proposal “Preventing Inequities in Hemorrhage-related Severe Maternal Morbidity (PRIHSM)”.

Dr. El-Sayed has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as multiple other publications and book chapters. He is the recipient of multiple scientific, service and educational honors, including the prestigious Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Patient Care Award, and the Arthur L. Bloomfield Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine, and he is a past Chair of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee on Obstetric Practice.