Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, MBA

Education

MD, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, 1983
Residency, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, 1987
Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, 1990
MBA, Auburn University, 2013

Biography

Ronald D. Alvarez, MD, MBA, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and holds the Betty and Lonnie S. Burnett Endowed Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). 

He completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1987 and his fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology in 1990, both at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He remained at UAB after completion of his fellowship and rose to the rank of Professor and Ellen Gregg Shook Culverhouse Chair in the UAB Division of Gynecologic Oncology, for which he served as Director from 2003-2014. He was also Vice-Chair of the UAB Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology until his transition to VUMC in 2016. 

He served the Gynecologic Oncology Group in various capacities from 1993 until 2014, including co-chair of the Protocol Development Committee and member of the Board of Directors. He served from 2014 to 2017 as co-chair of the NRG Oncology Gynecologic Cancer Committee and now serves as Chair of the NRG Oncology Research Strategy Committee. He has on the NCI CONC study section and the DOD OCRP integration panel. In 2013, he served as President of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. He was Director of Gynecologic Oncology Division of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 2014-2018 and now serves as an ABOG at-large Director. He serves as Secretary Treasurer for CUCOG and as Secretary for AGOS.