Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 18-21 , January 2009

Balancing the professional and personal

  • Alicia Y. Armstrong, M.D., M.H.S.C.R.

      Affiliations

    • Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Alicia Y. Armstrong, M.D., M.H.S.C.R., Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, CRC 1 East Room 1-E-3140, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 (FAX: 301-402-0884).
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  • Ruben J. Alvero, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado
    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • ,
  • Susan Dunlow, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
    • ,
  • Mary Catherine Nace, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
    • ,
  • Valerie Baker, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University, Stanford, California
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  • Elizabeth A. Stewart, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota

Received 12 July 2007 ,Revised 8 October 2007 ,Accepted 8 October 2007.

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 Supported, in part, by the intramural research program of the Reproductive Biology and Medicine Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

 Presented in part at the Society of Reproductive Endocrinology Fellows Retreat, Park City, Utah, August 2006 and as a workshop at the annual meeting of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, January 2006.

 R.J.A. is on the visiting speaker's bureau for Wyeth. V.B. has received a research report from IBSA. E.A.S. is a clinical trial investigator for Insightec; is a consultant for AMS, Bayer, Cytyc, Fallon Medical, Gynesonics, Innovus, Insightec, Lilly, Medstat/Thompson/GE, Quality Metrics, Schering AG, Smith and Nephew, the Society for Interventional Radiology, and United Healthcare; is an officer of the Fibroid Foundation; owns stock options in Gynesonics; and is a trustee of Berlex Foundation.

PII: S0015-0282(07)03950-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.10.064

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages 18-21 , January 2009

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