The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is involved with teaching, patient care, and research in the areas of normal and abnormal human reproduction: growth and development of the fetus, normal and complicated obstetrics, and surgical and medical diseases of the female reproductive system, including reproductive endocrinology and infertility, oncology,  urogynecology, global women's health, genetics, infectious disease, psychosocial problems, preventive health care, and ethics. The department also provides primary and preventive health care for women.