Dr. William J. Ledger

Professor and Chairman Emeritus,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University-
New York Presbyterian Hospital

William J. Ledger, M.D. received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1954, with his major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. After a rotating internship for one year in Erie, Pennsylvania, he practiced Obstetrics-Gynecology as a General Duty Medical Officer in the Air Force. He completed his residency training in Obstetrics-Gynecology at Temple University in 1964 and received a Masters Degree in Obstetrics-Gynecology. He was a member of the full time academic facutly at the University of Michigan from 1964-1972, and the University of Southern California from 1972-1979.

He was named the Given Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cornell in 1979 when he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology. His research interests have focused upon infection. He was the first Obstetrician-Gynecologist to be elected to the Infectious Disease Society of America; He was a founder and first president of the Infectious Disease Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology in America and currently is the president of the International Disease Society of Obstetrics-Gynecology. He is the author of over one hundred fifty scientific articles, many textbook chapters, and the sole author of two editions of over one hundred fifty scientific articles, many textbook chapters, and the sole author of two editions of Infections in the Female.

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