VEISHEA Opening Ceremony with Ann Bryant Borders

Ann Bryant Borders, a 1994 VEISHEA General Cochair, will deliver this year's opening remarks, "VEISHEA: Learning to Make a Difference." Borders graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in biology in 1994. At Iowa State she participated in the Honors Program and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Borders graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1999 and completed a Masters of Science in Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology in Boston in 2003. During her residency she spent a clinical rotation working at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Following residency Borders completed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine and a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at the Institute for Healthcare Studies at Northwestern University. She is currently an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Northwestern University.