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Center Director

The Center for Reproductive Epidemiology
University of Rochester
(585) 275-9182

Shanna Swan, PhD

Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

About Dr. Swan

Dr. Swan is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of the Center for Reproductive Epidemiology and Director of the Office for Research Administration at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Dr. Swan is also a Professor in Environmental Medicine. She received an MS in Biostatistics from Columbia University and a PhD in Statistics from the University of California-Berkeley. From 1981 to 1998, she served as Chief of the Reproductive Epidemiology Section at the California Department of Health Services.

Dr. Swan is known for her work on the impact of environmental exposures on male and female reproductive health and has served on the National Academy of Science's Committee on Hormone-Related Toxicants. Since 1998, she has been Principal Investigator of the Study for Future Families, a multi-center pregnancy cohort study examining environmental causes of geographic variation in reproductive health endpoints in men, women and children.

Dr. Swan was elected Chair of the 2008 Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Endocrine Disruptors.