Charles J. Lockwood, MD, senior associate vice president for USF Health and dean of the Morsani College of Medicine, has been elected to the March of Dimes National Board of Trustees for a five-year term. March of Dimes trustees are volunteers who provide strategic direction and governance to the organization.
Dr. Lockwood, editor in chief of Contemporary OB-GYN, was elected as a new trustee along with David Lakey, MD, senior vice president for population health at the University of Texas Health Northeast.
Dr. Lockwood is an internationally known obstetrician-gynecologist and scientist whose research interests include the prevention of recurrent pregnancy loss and preterm delivery. He led a research team that discovered fetal fibronectin, the first biochemical predictor of prematurity, and is the recipient of grant funding from the National institutes of Health and the March of Dimes.