Alexander Kofinas
Dr Kofinas is a physician specializing in the application of placenta science to pregnancy complications. His awards include New York magazine Best Doctor (eight times), Patient Choice and Most Compassionate Doctor. Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine), he is licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Maryland, and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Society for Reproductive Immunology,...See more
Dr Kofinas is a physician specializing in the application of placenta science to pregnancy complications. His awards include New York magazine Best Doctor (eight times), Patient Choice and Most Compassionate Doctor. Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine), he is licensed in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Maryland, and is a member of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, American Society for Reproductive Immunology, American College of Angiology, International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, International Society of Perinatal Obstetricians, Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Athens Medical Association (Greece) and International Federation of Placenta Associations. Since 2003, he has served as Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York. He has published dozens of scientific papers and served as academic reviewer for the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Journal of Perinatology, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, Journal of Pregnancy, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Hypertension in Pregnancy, and the authoritative medical journal Placenta. He has also co-authored a textbook and served as Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, New York University, taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Wake Forest University, North Carolina, and served as Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Associate Director, Obstetrics/ Gynecology Residency Program, at York Hospital, Pennsylvania, as well as Chief, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York. Since 2000, he has led Kofinas Perinatal PC's clinics in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Garden City, New York. Dr Kofinas studied at Athens University, Greece; Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; Brooklyn and Caledonian Hospitals, New York; and Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University. See less
