Mark I. Evans
Prof.
Dr. Mark I. Evans is President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation of America, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society Foundation. Dr. Evans has been a pioneer of many advances in obstetrics including CVS, genetic screening, fetal muscle biopsy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and fetal reduction. He developed the method for the first prevention of a birth defect (congenital adrenal hyperplasia), and was part of the first open fetal surgery for diaphragmatic hernia and fetoscopic umbilical cord ligation for TRAP. He performed the first successful in utero stem cell transplant to cure a baby with SCIDS (bubble baby).
Dr. Evans has over 1100 scientific publications including 30 text books. He has had multiple NIH grants including being a principal investigator for the search for fetal cells in maternal blood. He has received numerous national and international honors including receiving the President’s Award for Achievement from the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, and being elected President of the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society twice. He has received awards from Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women for his work in defending women’s rights.
