| Donald R. Coustan,
M.D. is the Obstetrician & Gynecologist-in-Chief,
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island,
Chace/Joukowsky Professor and Chairman, Department
of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Brown Medical School,
and Surgeon-in-Chief for Gynecology and Obstetrics,
Rhode Island Hospital. He graduated from Yale
Medical School in 1968, and did his internship
in Internal Medicine and residency in Obstetrics
and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Medical Center.
After two years in the Navy, he returned to Yale
in 1975. He moved to Brown and Women & Infants
Hospital in 1982 as Director of the Division of
Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Associate Professor
of Obstetrics/Gynecology. In 1986, Dr. Coustan
was promoted to Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology
at Brown Medical School, and in 1991 he became
Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
at Brown.
Dr. Coustan has published widely in the areas
of diabetes and pregnancy and gestational diabetes.
He is currently Principal Investigator of the BIRCWH and WRHR sites at Brown, of which Dr. Maureen Phipps, an RWJ Clinical Scholar alumnus, is Program Director. Dr. Coustan has served as President of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association, and is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He currently has two former RWJ Clinical Scholars on his departmental faculty.
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