Magdy Milad, M.D. ’87, is the Albert B. Gerbie Professor at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He also serves as medical director of the Center for Complex Gynecology at Northwestern Medicine, a multidisciplinary clinic for complex gynecologic conditions.

He previously served as residency program director for 13 years at the Feinberg School of Medicine.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and graduated from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1987. He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beaumont Oakland University Hospital and a fellowship in Reproductive Medicine and Infertility at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. In 1997, he returned to school while working full time to obtain a master’s degree in Academic Medicine at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Dr. Milad is the fellowship program director for the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Northwestern and has written more than 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts. A reviewer for multiple journals, he has mentored more than 400 residents and fellows in advanced endoscopic techniques and has been either course director or a faculty member for more than 100 training programs, including the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists surgical skills courses.

He worked with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-International to help develop the foundational requirements in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

“Wayne State gave me the opportunity to start my medical career and helped mold me into the physician that I was hoping to be,” he said.