Steven G. Gabbe is an American

obstetrician-gynecologist Obstetrics and Gynaecology (also spelled as Obstetrics and Gynecology; abbreviated as Obs and Gynae, O&G, OB-GYN and OB/GYN) is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics (covering pregnancy, childbirth, and t ...

, specializing in complications of

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. He is the former Chief Executive Officer at The Ohio State University Medical Center and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences. He is the namesake of Gabbe College, one of the four academic colleges of the

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, of which he formerly served as dean.

Career

On April 4, 2008, Gabbe was appointed

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of the Ohio State University Medical Center and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences at

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by President

Gordon Gee Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944), known as E. Gordon Gee, is an American academic. As of 2020, he was serving his second term as President of West Virginia University; his first term was from 1981 to 1985. Gee has held more university ...

. Gabbe was at Ohio State University for nine years as a professor and chairman of

obstetrics Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surg ...

and

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined ar ...

in The

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. He left in 1996 for the

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and was recruited to Vanderbilt as Dean of the Vanderbilt School of Medicine by former Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee in March 2001. He has authored over 175 research articles, and is the first author of the textbook, ''Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies'' (

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). He was elected a member of the

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of the

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in 1998.Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: Membership Directory: G
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Selected works

Books

* Gabbe S, ''et al.''. ''Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies'', 5th edn (Elsevier; 2007) ()

Research articles

* Landon MB, ''et al.''. (2004) Maternal and perinatal outcomes associated with a trial of labor after prior cesarean delivery. ''N Engl J Med'' 351: 2581–2589 ()
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References

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