Program Director

Dr. Sibai is an internationally recognized researcher and clinician in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. During the past 30 years, Dr. Sibai has maintained an impressive track record in educating, training and mentoring more than 70 fellows and junior faculty in maternal-fetal medicine. He also has an extensive history of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and has led several multi-center clinical trials. He serves as the Director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program, Alternate Principle Investigator for Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network at University of Texas, Houston. He is the founding member and the first president of the North American Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy, and the former President of the International Society for the Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy (ISSHP). In addition, he served as a member of the recent ACOG Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy.

Dr. Sibai is a leading authority in the care and treatment of women with preeclampsia, eclampsia, pre-term birth, rare obstetric syndromes, medical and surgical disorders in pregnancy, including maternal infections related to cesarean delivery, and medical and obstetric emergencies during pregnancy and childbirth. He has published more than 550 peer-reviewed articles in various scientific journals, numerous chapters in textbooks, and was the editor of several textbooks, including the most recent book entitled Management of Acute Obstetrics Emergency in Labor and Delivery.