Dr. Jocelynn Cook (PhD),
Dr. Cook is the Chief Scientific Officer for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada (SOGC). She has a PhD in Reproductive Physiology from the Medical University of South Carolina. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta and faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan, she was recruited by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to oversee development of the inaugural diagnostic guidelines for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). In the Federal Government, she has held executive positions at Health Canada’s First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Assisted Human Reproduction Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Now at SOGC, she oversees all work related to Continuing Medical Education, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Research, Accreditation, Global Health and Indigenous Health. Her professional career has focused on issues related to maternal-fetal medicine including substance abuse during pregnancy, preterm birth and maternal mortality.
