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University of Southern California
The mission of the fellowship at USC is to train fellows in a wide breadth of family planning services and research. We accomplish this by providing each fellow with a choice of flexible pathways to include research, clinical training, didactic courses and international experiences. Fellows are trained in first and second trimester abortion techniques through the Ryan Abortion Training Program located at Women's and Children's Hospital at the Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center and through Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles. In addition, experience with medical abortion is abundant through research trials and through the Ryan Abortion Training Program. The fellowship at USC has a special commitment to promoting translational research whereby answers to important family planning questions are answered through both clinical and basic science approaches. Through our Master's Program in Clinical Investigation, fellows are able to tailor a master's degree and receive credit for research and classroom time. International experiences are encouraged and designed to meet each fellow's particular interests and career goals.
Clinical training focuses on all aspects of contraception and family planning.
Fellows complete a Master of Science in Clinical and Biomedical Investigations. The program, which draws upon the well-established educational and research resources of the Keck School of Medicine, is designed to train fellows in clinical research methods to translate clinical, biomedical and technological discoveries into advances in population-based, clinical or basic sciences research. Eight tracks are available depending on the research interest of the fellow. Tracks include:
The USC Fellowship program has a strong tradition of conducting high-quality, scientifically rigorous research. Fellows participate in ongoing clinical trials as well as in the inception and development of projects in accordance with their particular interests. Fellows have access to internationally recognized research mentors not only in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology but in the Departments of Preventive Medicine, Endocrinology, Pathology, Pediatrics, and others. Fellows are encouraged to utilize the experienced staff and abundant resources of the Reproductive Research Clinic (RRC) to conduct research projects. Fellows also have access to two specialized laboratories:
Collaboration with other departments is strongly encouraged and facilitated through long standing relationships of the director with other faculty scientist at USC. Mentorship is provided by Dr. Mishell and is individually tailored to each fellow in the areas of professional growth and development, career planning, research. Another experienced family planning faculty mentor is being recruited. The USC Fellowship program strongly encourages fellows to participate in an international experience and to develop a research focus to pursue while abroad.
About the Director and other mentors Daniel Mishell, Jr. MD is the Lyle G. McNeile Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (1978 to present) and was Chairman of this Department from 1978 to 2005. Dr. Mishell is the Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Contraception (1970 to present). He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Reproductive Medicine and serves on the boards of several other medical journals. He is consulting Senior Scientist for the Population Council’s International Committee for Contraception Research and helped this organization develop the Copper IUD, Norplant and the Contraceptive Ring. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation in 1994 and the Guttmacher lectureship of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals in 1999. Dr. Mishell has authored more than 260 scientific papers published in peer review journals and written more than 140 textbook chapters mainly on topics relating to contraception, reproductive endocrinology, and infertility. He has edited or co-edited 34 medical textbooks including Comprehensive Gynecology (4 th edition 2001), Menopause: Physiology and Pharmacology (1988), Mishell’s Textbook of Infertility, Contraception and Reproductive Endocrinology, (4 th edition 1997) and Management of Common Problems in Obstetrics and Gynecology (4 th edition 2001). In 2003 he was elected as a Fellow ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Ronna Jurow, MD, MS is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dr. Jurow came to medicine after a successful career as an opera singer, singing lead roles in Europe and the United States. She graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco while simultaneously completing a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of California, Berkley. Dr. Jurow completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a fellowship in Gynecologic Urology at the University of Southern California. Since 1984, she has been in private practice in Ventura, California with special interest and emphasis on hormones, the climacteric period, family planning, and women’s roles in society. In 1998, she returned to academics and since 2005 serves as the Director of the Family Planning Clinic and Director of the Ryan Residency Training Program. She is actively involved in teaching and mentoring the fellows and residents and is a strong patient advocate.
Research and Clinical Interests of the Directors
Current Faculty Research Projects
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