The Luigi Mastroianni, Jr. Professorship of Obstetrics & Gynecology II

This Professorship was established in 2021, when the value of the endowment of the Luigi Mastroianni, Jr. Professorship of Obstetrics & Gynecology had increased sufficiently to support a second professorship. The original Professorship was created in 1989 through the contributions of friends, colleagues, and grateful patients of Luigi Mastroianni Jr., MD (1925–2008), a pioneer in the study of reproductive biology. 

When Dr. Mastroianni assumed the Chairmanship of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, his reputation had already been established. As Director of the Division of Reproductive Biology at Penn Medicine, Dr. Mastroianni earned worldwide acclaim for research in the field of female hormone action, the development of in vitro fertilization, and scientific leads for new methods of contraception. Dr. Mastroianni was President of the American Fertility Society and the editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. He received the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine in 1989 and the Distinguished Service Award of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in 1992. Dr. Mastroianni was appointed a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1993. 

Current Chairholder

The Luigi Mastroianni, Jr. Professorship of Obstetrics and Gynecology II is currently open.