Research Collaborators

Gary Ventolini, M.D., is the Regional Dean and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin. He comes to the TTUHSC School of Medicine from the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine where he served as the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology for six years. Ventolini’s education and experience are both vast and international. He received a Doctorate of Medicine & Surgery from the University of Padova in Padova, Italy. His training took him to Columbia where he joined the faculty of Libre University in Cali, Columbia. He came to the United States for postgraduate training in Family Medicine in Spartanburg, South Carolina, before joining the faculty of the University of Cincinnati school of Medicine. Following an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, he joined the faculty at Wright State. Dr. Ventolini is board certified in both Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Ventolini has an abundance of scholarly work which includes authoring over 130 publications of peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and abstracts. He served as the Vice President of Wright State Physician’s Management Committee and Corporation, the Chair for their Finance and Budget Committee, and the President-Elect of the Dayton OB/GYN Society. He serves as a reviewer for nine journals and is a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of Gynecologic Surgery and the Journal of Genital System & Disorders. Dr. Ventolini has served as the principal investigator for several translational research grants. From 1983-1988, he was a founding member of the Institute for Human Reproduction and the Apromeli (Association of Professors Medical School). He is presently a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

James Maher, M.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at the Permian Basin and Medical Director- Maternal Fetal Medicine at Medical Center Hospital: Center for Women & Infants. Dr. Maher attended medical school at Medical College of Georgia and did his residency at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Tennessee at Memphis. This was followed by a fellowship in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Maher’s research interests focus on ultrasound and clinical obstetric research. He is currently working on projects involving ultrasound tissue histogram analysis, ultrasound flow measurements on placenta, and noninvasive prenatal testing and how its positive predictive value is affected by ultrasound findings.
Dr. Maher is member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and the Texas Perinatal Association. Dr. Maher has authored or co-authored over 50 publications and presentations, and has worked on over 10 protocols.

Dr. Maher may be contacted at james.maher@ttuhsc.edu.

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