5/7/2008 Paula J. Adams Hillard, MD: The "curb-side" consult

She has been active on a number of national medical committees, including chair of the American College Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) Committees on Patient Education, Adolescent Health, and Guidelines for Women’s Health; she is a past member of the Gynecologic Practice Committee, and a current member of the Document Review Committee. She is an examiner for the American Board of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is a past president of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. She is an active contributor to the literature in adolescent gynecology and contraception with over 100 journal articles and abstracts published. She has served as an editorial board member for a number of professional publications and is an ad hoc reviewer for a number of other professional journals. She speaks frequently at national and international meetings and postgraduate courses on topics in ambulatory obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric and adolescent gynecology, cervical cancer screening, interpersonal violence, and primary care. She is an Associate Editor of a major textbook, Novak’s Gynecology, the editor of The 5-Minute Obstetrics and Gynecology Consult (in press with scheduled publication May 2008), and the author of over 540 book chapters on women’s health. She has been a consultant and a member of tasks forces and committees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In addition to her work with professional publications, Dr. Hillard has extensive experience with the consumer press. She has appeared on national television programs including an appearance on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. She was a contributing editor to Parents magazine from 1982-1990, writing a monthly column on pregnancy and birth–and currently acts as an editorial consultant to women’s publications such as Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Glamour, YM, and Seventeen. Her clinical work has earned the designation as one of the “Best Doctors for Women“ from Good Housekeeping Magazine.