Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Mark Phillippe received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from Northwestern University in Chicago.  Subsequently, he did his residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Boston Hospital for Women and subspecialty fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston.  Dr. Phillippe has held faculty appointments at the Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago (where he served as Director for the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program and Vice-Chair for Research). 

In 2001, Dr. Phillippe became the Professor & Chair for the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.  In 2007, Dr. Phillippe earned a M.S. degree in Health Care Management (MHCM) from the Harvard School of Public Health.  In June of 2012, Dr. Phillippe stepped down after 11 years of service as the department chair to re-establish his career as a physician-scientist; currently he is spending a sabbatical year at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

In addition to his clinical and administrative activities, Dr. Phillippe has been engaged in laboratory research as a physician-scientist throughout his career.  With ongoing support from the NIH, his research has addressed cell signaling mechanisms, myometrial physiology and more recently the pathophysiology of influenza infection during pregnancy.  

Dr. Phillippe has published over 90 biomedical papers, reviews and book chapters, and he has presented over 115 scientific abstracts.  He has served on multiple scientific peer review committees for the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes Foundation and other funding agencies, including membership on the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). 

 Dr. Phillippe is a member of multiple national biomedical societies including the Society for Gynecologic Investigation, the Perinatal Research Society, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American Gynecologic and Obstetrical Society, the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the American Society for Cell Biology, and the American College of Physician Executives.